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Feature
Story
/Dr.
Dieter
Hoff
-TVI's
PERSON OF THE WEEK and NBS100
Achievement Winner •
•Dr.
Dieter
Hoff
was born in 1939 in
Wiesbaden, Germany and studied
from 1959 to 1962 at the
Fachhochschule in Darmstadt.
•
• From 1966 to 1970,
after obtaining the university
entrance qualifications, he
studied at the Technical
University of Munich,
communications engineering
technology where he made the exam
for Dipl-Ing., and from 1970 to
1974 worked as scientific
assistant to Prof. Mainke at the
Technical University Munich, in
the field of high frequency
technology. 1974 Promotion to Dr.
Ing. at the same
institute.
•
•In the years of 1962
to 1966, Dr. Hoff collected
communication industry experience
in the development of
professional broadcasting and
receiving systems.
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StoriesLobbyist, Eddie
Frittz of Kentucky Roast FCC Chairman
Martin, Then Jabs At
Cable
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•
It was reported by Ted Hearns of
Multichannel Industry News in December
2007, -- only someone like - Washington
D.C.'s super lobbyist Eddie Fritts gets to
take a few cost-free shots at Federal
Communications Commission chairman Kevin
Martin, who, as the cable industry knows
all too well, isn't afraid of playing by
north Jersey mob rules when shown up in
public.
•
•Fritts -- former boss of the
National Association of Broadcasters now
running his own firm -- gave it his best
shot Wednesday night at a roast in
Martin's honor attended by 1,500 lawyers,
lobbyists, and others who routinely seek
favors from the national media regulator.
The evening is officially known as the
annual FCC Chairman's Dinner, organized by
the Federal Communications Bar Association
to raise money for charitable
causes. •
•Martin got to return fire later
&endash; but instead of putting Fritts in
his place, Martin at times opted to poke
fun at cable and other industries within
his regulatory
orbit.
•
•In his trademark Mississippi
drawl, Fritts reeled off a bunch of
one-liners, including a few aimed at
Martin's youthful
appearance.
•
•"I've known Kevin since he was
25 years old and looking 12 years old.
Let's be honest, Kevin looks so young even
Mark Foley would throw him back," Fritts
said, referring to the disgraced House
Republican from Florida who had to resign
over scandalous text messages exchanged
with young
boys.
•
•Pausing between cracks to let
the crowd settle down in the giant
ballroom of the Washington Hilton, Fritts
also reminded everyone of Martin's ongoing
"war" with the cable industry. He
collected more groans than laughs by
linking Sen. Larry Craig's (R-Idaho)
airport bathroom arrest to Martin's demand
that cable had met the so-called 70/70
test in federal
law.
•
•"You know, a lot of people
think 70/70 gives Kevin a mandate on a la
carte. Not true. The only one is
Washington who has a mandate is Larry
Craig," Fritts
said.
•
•Fritts referred to the recent
news that Energy and Commerce Committee
chairman Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) is
investigating Martin's management of the
agency. Martin got word in a letter from
Dingell &endash; a missive famously known
in Washington telecom circles as a
"Dingell-gram."
•
•"I spoke to Kevin on Monday and
asked if he had recently received a
Dingell-gram," Fritts began. "He said,
`Yes.' I asked if it hurt and he
responded, 'Yes.' And he also recommended
that all men over age 50 get a
Dingell-gram at least once a
year." •
•When it was Martin's turn, he
started off with a little humility about
his defeat to the cable industry last
Tuesday on the matter of how big cable had
grown.
•
•"I recognize that I've brought
some of my recent problems on myself --
for example, my cable choice proposal, you
know, the one where cable gets to choose
to do whatever I say. That may not have
been my best idea," Martin
quipped.
•
•At one point, Martin asked all
cable lobbyists in the room to raise their
hands. "I want to start out by apologizing
that we had to remove the knives from your
table," he
said.
•
•Martin suggested that cable
opened its checkbook to defeat his
anti-cable
initiatives.
•
•"I don't know how much money
the cable industry has spent but I do know
that if our country goes into a recession,
it won't be my fault," he
said.
•
•Martin also used Comcast
chairman and CEO Brian Roberts as a foil
in a gag about people who complain that
Martin laced one of his public statements
with the
F-word.
•
•"But not everyone was so
critical," Martin said. "Brian Roberts
called and suggested I do my own show on
leased access channels. I told him that's
way too expensive. Then I thought, `Maybe,
I can fix that," Martin said, referring to
last Tuesday's ruling to slash leased
access rates by
70%.
•
•Martin cracked that he would
call his program the "That 70/70 Show" and
his first episode "Cooking the
Numbers."
•
•Martin concluded with a wacky
top 10 list of predictions for the
upcoming 700 MHz spectrum
auction.
•
•Following the auction, he said:
AT&T will say the auction results
prove that network neutrality is not
necessary. Google will say the outcome
proves network neutrality is necessary.
NAB will say the auction shows that the
XM-Sirius merger should not be
approved.
•
•Posted by Ted Hearn on December
7, 2007 | Comments
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