Out of the Running?

The Rice Associates study consistently pointed to the Cambridge Cablevision Corporation's (3C)) failure to comply with the minimum requirements established by the City's cable commission.

"I get the sense that because we did not present a traditional structure of a cable system in our proposal that it hurt our evaluation," said Nancy R. Csaplar of 3C.

Csaplar said 3C's chances of winning Cambridge's cable license depend on "no what degree the city manager uses the consultant's of the limited partnership, and serious shortcomings in 3C's overall plan for local origination were among several weaknesses which "reduced the overall completeness of the proposal," according to the report.

"It's still anybody's ballgame," said Edward C. Casey '76 of the Cambridge cable commission, who added that the report "laid out the facts and will let the city manager make the decision."

Although he called the study "a substantial document in the whole process." Casey said it will be only part of the evidence being considered, along with more than 5000 pages of public hearing transcripts and summer construcation months.