FCC Open Meeting Agenda

[SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission]
The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on Friday, March 17, 2006 at 9:30 a.m. in Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. There are three items on the agenda: 1) new children's educational television rules, 2) public safety communications needs in the 700 MHz band, and 3) creating a Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau at the Commission. If you'd like to watch at home or from your office, coverage of the meeting will be broadcast live with open captioning over the Internet from the FCC's Audio/Video Events web page at www.fcc.gov/realaudio.
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-264266A1.doc

* FCC Takes Up Kids Compromise
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The FCC is expected to approve a compromise between kids' TV advocates and the broadcast industry on new rules on educational programming for children.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6315269?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP
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* FCC Pokes Stations Over Pokemon
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The FCC continues to work through its backlog of license renewals, stopping along the way to admonish stations for kids TV rule violations, particularly program-length commercials.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6315013?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP
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