Broadcasters
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The proposal aims to restrict broadcasters
to 20 seconds of game highlights and 20 sec
onds of interviews during the 48 hours after
any Duck game. Special shows outside a dai
ly sports report during news broadcasts
would receive 30 seconds of each.
The idea to limit coverage stems from a
long-standing dispute between the Univer
sity and local television stations. ESPN Re
gional Sports, in the middle of a five-year
exclusive contract with Duck sports, al
lows footage to be aired on KEZI, Eugene's
ABC affiliate.
Both ESPN and ABC are owned by the
Disney Corporation.
But CBS affiliate KVAL, which held the
University sports contract until the 1999
2000 school year, continued to show Duck
football game footage on its "Inside the PAC"
show, which highlights all teams in the Pa
cific-10 Conference.
ESPN and KEZI feared the show had un
fair access to their contracted footage and
“Inside the PAC” resembled KEZI’s “Mike
Bellotti Show.”
On Thursday, the attorney for KVAL’s
Fisher Broadcasting sent Grier a letter refut
ing her claims in the July 17 Emerald that
the proposed rule doesn’t violate First
Amendment rights.
Grier said the University is not restricting
content if everyone has the same access.
Assistant Athletic Director Dave Heeke
added that the school is obligated to protect
ESPN’s right as the primary contract holder.
But KVAL’s attorney, Joel DeVore, said the
amount a station can show is a content issue,
especially with the proposed restrictions
and consequences for violators.
The proposal states media can’t use any
footage without specific permission on a
case-by-case basis after one week has ex
pired. And if a station violates any of the
time rules, the University can revoke that
station’s press pass.
DeVore said both would be a way to re
strict the content one station can put in its
newscast.
“It puts a razor wire fence around Autzen
Stadium,’’ he said.
Grier, who has also received two other let
ters from DeVore requesting a response to
his claims, has yet to write him back or call.
She is on vacation this week and could not
be reached for comment about the letter.
But Bill Johnstone, the president of the
Oregon Association of Broadcasters, did
have a chance to meet with Grier, Heeke and
Athletic Director Bill Moos last week. John
stone previously said that if the rule is
passed in its current form, the OAB will take
the issue to court, and he made his inten
tions clear in the meeting.
“We’ll follow that through as far as it
takes,” Johnstone said.
He added that the meeting was mostly an
opportunity for both sides to establish their
goals and concerns.
Heeke said the school hopes to have a fi
nal draft ready by August.
Vishanoff leads campaign
to recall Bonny Bettman
■The ‘Moss Street Defender’ filed a
petition to recall in response to Bettman’s
efforts to prevent Sacred Heart Medical
Center from leaving the downtown area
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
A resident of the West University area who
calls himself the “Moss Street Defender” is
pushing to recall City Councilor Bonny
Bettman.
Still steaming over the city’s rejected plan to
level six blocks for Sacred Heart Medical Cen
ter’s expansion, Zachary Vishanoff, 31, said
Bettman’s drive to keep Sacred Heart in the
downtown area threatens the livability of his
neighborhood.
Bettman, who represents the University
area and downtown, helped draft a proposal
to purchase or condemn a swath of property
west of Hilyard Street for the hospital’s ex
pansion. After that proposal was scrapped,
she supported construction near the hospi
tal’s 13th Avenue and Willamette Street loca
tion or on land to the south and west of the
existing Hilyard Street site.
“Bettman has seen enough media coverage
in the past month to give her the impression
that this is an unpopular idea,” Vishanoff said.
“I thought that the public outcry would have
some effect on her, but it didn’t. Maybe she’s
not representing us.”
Vishanoff, a delivery man who’s lived in the
area for 20 years, filed last week for a petition to
recall Bettman. He has 90 days to gather 594
signatures of registered voters living in
Bettman’s ward. If those signatures are turned
in before the deadline and are certified, the city
will hold a special election in the ward within
35 days after certification.
Bettman did not respond to inquiries for
an interview before press time. But she has
criticized Vishanoff for trying to settle a dif
ference of opinion via the recall system in
other news reports.
Vishanoff has been handing out posters
reading “RECALL BETTMAN” and has organ
ized a protest, which will begin at 4 p.m. Tues
day outside Sacred Heart Medical Center.
A few residential buildings and businesses,
including the clothing store Delphina, have
posted Vishanoffs signs along 13th Avenue.
Bettman “is not supporting the people in
this community,” said Jewel Kenny, a manag
er at Delphina. “The people who voted her in
are the people she would have destroyed and
whose homes she would have destroyed.”
Vishanoff has also protested possible Uni
versity construction on Moss Street and the
placement of a cellular-phone tower at 14th
Avenue and Villard Street.
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