Fritts speech canceled

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National Association of Broadcasters president Eddie Fritts' speech to the
Media Institute in Washington, D.C., on media-ownership rules had to be canceled for a
second time Wednesday due to the death of his father-in-law, John Pierce Richie,
late Tuesday.

Fritts and wife Martha Dale traveled to Tennessee for the funeral.

Fritts was to have given the speech one week ago, but that luncheon was
canceled due to the snowstorm that blanketed the East
Coast.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.