Digital Television Advisory Committee Membership

Charles Benton. As president and chairman of the Benton Foundation, Mr. Benton has created an initiative to realize the social benefits made possible by the public use of communications. Mr. Benton is also chairman of Public Media Inc., which publishes and distributes quality film and video programs for the consumer and institutional markets. Mr. Benton has served as chairman of the College Satellite Network and sits on the board of Sea Movies, Inc.

Frank Blythe. Executive Director and a founding member of Native American Public Telecommunications, (formerly Native American Public Broadcasting Consotium) "a leader in broadcast and educational media, bringing the voices and faces of Native America to the public via film, television, radio, and other technologies." Mr. Blythe is the NAPT Director for American Indian Radio on Satellite Network and a Co-Director for American Indian Higher Education Consortium's Distance Education Network. Previously, Mr. Blythe was project director for Tribal Information Infrastructure Planning and was a Co-Executive Producer of the two-hour series that premiered on PBS, Storyteller in the Pacific.

Antoinette Cook Bush. A partner in the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Ms. Cook Bush represents companies in administrative, legislative, and transactional matters involving communications issues and other legislative matters. Prior to joining Skadden, Arps, Ms. Cook Bush served as senior counsel to the Communications Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, where she was responsible for all legislation involving communications matters, including the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 and the Public Telecommunications Act of 1992.

Peggy Charren. Ms. Charren is a noted advocate of children's educational television, and founder of Action for Children's Television (ACT), a national child advocacy organization founded in 1968. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 10,000 member nonprofit organization worked to encourage program diversity and eliminate commercial abuses in children's television. Ms. Charren is a Visiting Scholar in Education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. She is the author of three books and numerous journal articles on the subject of children and television. She currently serves as director or advisor to the Library of Congress, Children's Museum, the 20th Century Fund, and the National Science Foundation. Ms. Charren was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995, a Peabody Award in 1992, and an Emmy in 1988, and holds academic honors from Radcliffe College and Connecticut College and honorary degrees from six colleges and universities.

Harold C. Crump. Mr. Crump joined Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. this year as Vice President of Corporate Affairs. Prior to joining Hubbard Broadcasting, Mr. Crump was President and General Manager of KSTP-TV in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Before that, he was president and CEO of Crump Communications, Inc and was owner and operator of WCSC-TV in Charleston, South Carolina. He has also served on the Board of Directors of Broadcast Music, Inc. since 1985.

Frank Cruz. Mr. Cruz is the President of Cruz & Associates, a financial consultant group which he founded in 1995. He is on the Boards of Directors of several civic and business organizations, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, <http://www.cpb.org/> Health Net, and the USC School of Public Administration. Mr. Cruz is the former Chairman of Gulf Atlantic Life Insurance in California, the first Hispanic-owned life insurance company in the United States. A veteran broadcaster, Cruz is a founder of Telemundo, the nation's second Spanish language network, and of KVEA-TV in Los Angeles, where he served as vice president and later as general manager. <http://www.cpb.org/homepages/board/cruz.html>

Robert W. Decherd. Mr. Decherd is the Chariman, President, and CEO of A.H. Belo Corporation. He has worked for A.H. Belo or its principal newspaper subsidiary, The Dallas Morning News, since his graduation from Harvard College in 1973. Mr. Decherd led A.H. Belo's effort to become publicly held and devised its initial management structure. Before being elected to his current position in 1987, he served in various positions such as Vice President, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and President. He is also a director of Kimberly-Clark Corporation and CCBG, Inc., and has received several awards including the James Madison Award from the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, Inc. and the Henry Cohn Humanitarian Award from the Anti-Defamation League.

Barry Diller. Chairman and CEO of HSN, Inc., parent company of Home Shopping Network, Silver King Broadcasting, SF Broadcasting, the Internet Shopping Network, and Vela Research. Mr. Diller has been credited with launching the Fox TV network, where he served as Chariman and CEO and oversaw the purchase of seven TV stations and the creation of a national satellite-delivered program distribution service. He has also been chairman and CEO of QVC Inc., building it into a major home-shopping force. Has been a strong advocate in support of free time for policitcal candidates and content descriptions in V-chip program ratings, and serves on the boards of the Museum of Telvision and Radio, the New York Public Library, and AIDS Project Los Angeles.

William Duhamel. President of Duhamel Broadcasting Enterprises, which owns four TV stations and three radio stations. Mr. Duhamel was a co-founder of South Dakota Cable Television, Inc. which brought the first cable television service to western South Dakota. He has been a member of South Dakota Health and Educational Facilities Authority since its inception in 1972, and serves on several committees such as the Executive Committee of the Television Music License Committee, the Board of Affiliate Enterprises, and the NAB Hundred Plus TV Market Committee.

Robert D. Glaser, a software industry executive and multimedia pioneer, is president and co-founder of Real Networks, a socially responsible interactive multi-media company formed in October 1993. Prior to founding Real Networks, Mr. Glaser served as Vice President for Multimedia and Consumer Systems for Microsoft, where he formulated the company's strategy for entry into the multimedia technology and consumer digital appliances markets. Mr. Glaser also serves on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

James Fletcher Goodmon. Mr. Goodmon is President and CEO of Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. He has served with Capitol Broadcasting since 1968 in various positions including President, Executive Vice President, and Operations Manager. Mr. Goodmon was inducted into the journalism hall of fame in North Carolina this year and received the Triangle Excellence in Marketing Award and the Golden Mike Award in 1994.

Paul A. LaCamera. Mr. LaCamera has served as Vice President and General Manager of WCBV-TV, Channel 5 in Boston, since 1972. WCBV has established a distinguished 25 year track record of pioneering local programming and community service initiatives. He is chariman of the Government Relations Committee for the New England Broadcasting Association and former President of the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association and National Broadcast Association for Community Affairs.

Richard Masur. Mr. Masur is an actor in TV and film, a director, and President of the Screen Actors Guild. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Policy Center and the Creative Coalition. He has starred in such television series as One Day at a Time and Picket Fences, as well as over thirty-five television films. He has starred in over thirty-five feature films including Under Fire, Risky Business, Les Patriotes, and Multiplicity.

Newton Minow. Mr. Minow is the former Chairman of the FCC, (he coined the famous phrase describing TV as "the vast wasteland."), former Chairman of the Public Broadcasting System, and serves as counsel with the law firm of Sidley and Austin in Chicago. He is also a professor of Communications Policy and Law at Northwestern University, where he served as the director of the Annenberg Washington Program from 1987-1996. Mr. Minow has co-authored and contributed to several books on the public interest and broadcasting, including Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, and the First Amendment, How Vast the Wasteland Now, For Great Debates, and Presidential Television.

Jose Luis Ruiz. Mr. Ruiz serves as Executive Director of the National Latino Communications Center, a nonprofit media arts resource center that works to develop and present high quality films and television programs about the Latino experience. Mr. Ruiz has been a producer and director in the film and television industry since 1970, and his programs have earned eleven Emmy nominations, four emmy awards, and a Golden Eagle Award for Outstanding Documentary. He is also President of the Mexican-American Solidarity Foundation Alumni and a founding member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture.

Shelby Scott. Ms. Scott has been President since 1993 of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, a 77,000 member performer union. Before her election to President, she had previously served as National First Vice President, Chair of AFTRA's Women's Committee and the Broadcast Steering Committee. She is a general assignment reporter for WBZ-TV in Boston. Ms. Scott's major awards include the Unite Press International's Tom Phillips Citation for Excellence in Reporting and the William F. Homer, Jr. Award in Excellence in Journalism from Suffolk University.

Karen Peltz Strauss. Ms. Peltz Strauss is legal counsel for telecommunications policy for the National Association of the Deaf. She represents and advises people nationwide who are deaf and hard of hearing on matters affecting their legal rights. She works with consumer and professional organizations on local, state, and federal levels to secure advances in telecommunications access and other civil rights. She has served as leading advocate and co-author of Title IV of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which mandates nationwide telecommunications relay services. In 1993, she received the H. Latham Breunig Humanitarian Award for outstanding efforts to expand telecommunications access for deaf and hard of hearing individuals.

Cass Sunstein. Mr. Sunstein is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and noted First Amendment and constitutional scholar. His principal reasearch and teaching interests include administrative law, environmental law, welfare law, jurisprudence, and constitutional law.

Louis Jean White. Ms. White serves as President of the National PTA. She is a former member of the PTA's Education Commission, Individual, & Organizational Development Commission, and is a past president of the Tennessee State PTA.

James Yee. Executive Director of Independent Television Service ("ITVS"), a Congressionally-funded body that supports innovative proposals by independent producers. Mr. Yee came to ITVS following a successful twelve year tenure as Executive Director of the National Asian American Telecommunications Association, one of the country's leading media consortia. He has extensive production experience as a WGBH/Boston associate producer, and as an independent producer and consultant on such projects as the radio documentary Bamboo Radio and the film Freckled Rice. Mr. Yee is committed to making relevant, critical and innovative programs available to public television.

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