Calendar | Monday, January 1, 2007

As the Federal Communications Commission revisits its media ownership rules, it must consider the impact of media consolidation on the opportunities for democratic deliberation of all Americans. Congressman Becerra will discuss the important role Congress will play in ensuring the FCC meets its responsibilities. The Center for American Progress will present a new progressive proposal on how the FCC should measure local media diversity and why it is important.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Program: 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Admission is free.

The CPB Board of Directors will meet on Monday, February 5, 2007, from 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm CT (Central Time) in Jackson, MS.

The Alliance for Public Technology

2007 Policy Forum & Susan G. Hadden Pioneer Awards Luncheon

Friday, February 9, 2007
National Press Club
529 Fourteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC

Commerce Committee Announces Executive Session Agenda

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will mark up bills and nominations during its Executive Session on Tuesday, February 13, 2007, at 10:00 a.m., in room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building.

The Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service (Joint Board) will hold an en banc hearing on Tuesday, February 20, 2007, in Washington, DC. The Joint Board will discuss high cost universal service support in rural areas, including the use of reverse auctions (competitive bidding) and geographic information systems (GIS) to determine support for eligible telecommunications carriers. Panelists representing a broad range of interests will discuss their positions and respond to questions from the Joint Board members.

The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on Friday February 23, 2007, which is scheduled to commence at 9:30 a.m. in Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. Meeting agenda will be release 2/16.

Tech Policy Summit is an invitation-only executive conference that brings together prominent leaders from the private and public sectors to examine critical policy issues affecting technology innovation and adoption in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Competition and the future of Digital Music

House Antitrust Task Force
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 3 pm.

Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Hearing
"Digital Future of the United States: Part I -- The Future of the World Wide Web"
Thursday, March 1, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. (or 15 minutes after the conclusion of the anticipated full Committee markup)
2123 Rayburn House Office Building

Wireless Net Neutrality

Should Carterfone and Broadband Nondiscrimination
Rules Apply to Cellular?

Wednesday, March 7, 2007
12:00 – 2:00 PM

New America Foundation*
1630 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC

Free Press, Consumer’s Union, Common Cause, United Church of Christ Office of Communications, Metropolitan Church Council, Ohio PIRG, and Ohio Citizen Action are sponsoring a town meeting on the future of media in Columbus, Ohio.

Date: Wednesday, Mar. 7, 2007
Time: 5:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Location: Broadstreet Presbyterian Church

The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications will hold a FCC oversight hearing on Wednesday March 14, 2007 at 9:30am.

The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on Thursday, March 22, 2007, which is scheduled to commence at 9:30 a.m. in Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. (see http://www.fcc.gov/fccmeetings.html)

Senate Commerce Committee
Exclusive Sports Programming: Examining Competition and Consumer Choice
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Senate Commerce Committee Hearing:

XM Sirius

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
10:00 AM

http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=1848

The Digital Future of the U.S.: Part 3: Spectrum Opportunities and the Future of Wireless

Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet
10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building

http://energycommerce.house.gov/membios/schedule.shtml

On Monday, April 23rd, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the Alliance for Public Technology (APT) will co-host a briefing on Capitol Hill to underscore the need for policies that encourage universal broadband access and showcase ConnectKentucky, an extraordinarily successful model of stimulating broadband deployment and adoption.

Digital Future of the United States: Part IV: Broadband Lessons from Abroad
Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet
10:00 a.m. in room 2322 Rayburn House Office Building

The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on April 25, 2007, which is scheduled to commence at 9:30 a.m. in Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. (see http://www.fcc.gov/fccmeetings.html)

The Federal Communications Commission today announced the fourth public hearing on media ownership issues will be held in the Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida, area in the afternoon and evening on Monday, April 30, 2007.

On May 2, the Future of Music Coalition and the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy invite you to a Policy Day, where panelists and speakers will focus on the critical issues emerging in the Courts, Congress and at the Copyright Office.

Digital Future of the United States: Part V: The Future of Video
Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Hearing
Thursday May 10
9:30 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building

The Senate Commerce Committee has announced it will hold a hearing on Communications, Taxation and Federalism on Tuesday, May 15, 2007, at 10:00 a.m., in room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building.
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=248807&Month=5&Year=2007

Advanced Telecommunications Capability
Notice of Inquiry, GN Docket No. 07-45, FCC 07-21
4/16/2007 - The FCC released its fifth Notice of Inquiry, adopted on March 12, under section 706 of the Telecommunications Act to ask “whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.” The Notice, seeks comment on:
- Various market, investment, and technological trends in order to analyze and assess whether infrastructure capable of supporting advanced services is being made available to all Americans.
- The competitiveness of the broadband market and whether there is evidence of anticompetitive conduct in this market.
Comment Date: May 16, 2007
Reply Comment Date: May 31, 2007

HEARING: BROADBAND MAPPING AND DATA COLLECTION
[SOURCE: House of Representatives Commerce Committee]
The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet will hold a Legislative Hearing on H.R.____, a Discussion Draft Addressing Broadband Mapping and Data Collection. Thursday May 17 at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 Rayburn House Office Building
http://energycommerce.house.gov/membios/schedule.shtml

On Wednesday, May, 23rd, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the Alliance for Public Technology will co-host a luncheon event on Capitol Hill to underscore the need for policies that encourage universal broadband access and showcase successful models of deployment and demand. The event is another in the series of programs for the APT-CWA Advanced Universal Service campaign. APT’s recent report Achieving Universal Broadband: Polices for Stimulating Deployment and Demand and CWA’s SpeedMatters report, both of which focus on advanced universal service and broadband deployment, will be available. The event will take place in the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 240.

The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on Thursday, May 31, 2007, which is scheduled to commence at 9:30 a.m. in Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will hold a public meeting regarding the Public Safety Interoperable Communications Grant Program from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Monday, June 4, 2007, at the U.S. Department of Commerce Auditorium, 1401 Constitution Avenue, N.W.,Washington, D.C. A Federal Register Notice will be posted soon providing additional information.

WCA 2007
June 12-15, 2007
Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, DC
www.wcai.com

Top Bush Administration officials will highlight broadband wireless policy perspectives in the U.S. and globally during a keynote-level session at 9:15 a.m. on Thursday, June 14 at WCA 2007 – the wireless broadband industry’s premier global convention organized by the Wireless Communications Association International.

The Mirror Awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public's benefit. Honorees will be recognized for news judgment and command of craft in reporting, analysis and commentary on developments in the media industry and its role in our economy, culture and democracy.

Broadband Regulation
Notice of Inquiry, WC 07-52, FCC 07-31
4/16/2007 - The FCC seeks information to enhance its understanding of the nature of the market for broadband and related services. The Notice of Inquiry asks:
- Whether network platform providers and others favor or disfavor particular content, how consumers are affected by these policies, and whether consumer choice of broadband providers is sufficient to ensure that all such policies ultimately benefit consumers.
- For specific examples of beneficial or harmful behavior, and whether any regulatory intervention is necessary. Comment Date: June 15, 2007
Reply Comment Date: July 16, 2007

International Telecommunications Society
17th Biennial Conference
Montreal, Canada, June 24-27, 2008

Conference on Broadband Statistics
Thursday, June 28, 2007
9:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
National Academics of Sciences
2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
FREE and open to the public

Is U.S. broadband adoption keeping pace with other countries? How can American legislators, regulators and citizens better track broadband policy? What data do policy-makers need to make crucial broadband policy decisions? Experts from industry, journalism, think tanks and interest groups will convene to discuss these and other questions at a June 28th forum co-hosted by the Center for Public Integrity and The Progress & Freedom Foundation.

Why Media Diversity Matters

A national town hall meeting in DC, Denver, and live via webcast

Moderated by Tavis Smiley (DC) and Mayor John Hickenlooper (Denver)

With an introduction by LCCR President and CEO Wade Henderson

Featuring FCC Commissioner Michael Copps and civil rights experts

June 29, 2007

12noon Eastern, 10am Mountain

Jack Morton Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Turnhalle in the Tivoli, Denver, CO

Wireless Innovation and Consumer Protection
Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet
10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building

FIFTH ANNUAL ACCESS TO CAPITAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY CONFERENCE AND TENTH ANNUAL HALL OF FAME RECEPTION
Westin Grand Hotel, 2350 M Street N.W., Washington, DC
http://www.mmtconline.org/access

Thursday, July 19, 2007
02:30 PM

SR - 253

Protecting Children on the Internet
Senate Commerce Committee

Tuesday, July 24, 2007
10:00 AM
SR - 253

The Committee will explore efforts to protect children from online predators.

Starting this Tuesday, July 24 at 7pm EST on OpenLeft.com, Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL) will be engaging in a series of four nightly broadband policy discussions with the online community. During those four nights, he is looking for the best and brightest ideas on what Congress should do to promote and foster broadband. See http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=318

Impact: The Digital Revolution
Wi-Fi, Inclusion & Beyond
July 26-28
Houston, TX

The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on Tuesday, July 31, 2007, which is scheduled to commence at 10:00 a.m. in Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C.

The YearlyKos Convention is August 2-5, 2007 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois.

A View from Washington: Winning a Better Media for Everyone

Aug 2 2007 - 2:00pm -- 3:30pm

YearlyKos

Chicago IL

The first meeting of the renewed Committee will take place on Friday, August 10, 2007, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Commission’s Headquarters Building, Room TW-C305, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554. Future meetings of the Committee during calendar year 2007 will be announced in a Public Notice published in the Federal Register at least fifteen (15) days in advance of the meetings.

FOCAS 2007 Aspen Institute: Media and Values
Aug 13-15
Aspen, CO

Federal Trade Commission Reauthorization

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
09:30 AM
SR - 253

The Everett C. Parker Ethics in Telecommunications Lecture was created in 1982 to recognize Parker's pioneering work as an advocate for the public's rights in broadcasting. It is the only lecture in the country to examine telecommunications and the digital age from an ethical perspective. Past speakers include network presidents, Congressional leaders, FCC chairs and commissioners, as well as academics, cable and telephone executives and journalists. It is funded by the communications industry, particularly broadcasters, along with the communications offices of major faith groups.

SAVE THE DATE! The 2007 Parker Event will be on September 18, 2007 at 11:45 am.

The Federal Communications Commission announced the fifth public hearing on media ownership issues will be held in Chicago, Illinois in the afternoon and evening on Thursday, September 20, 2007.