Senate Franchise Bill Markup Postponed

SENATE FRANCHISE BILL MARKUP POSTPONED
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Senate Commerce Committee is now scheduled to vote on the Communications, Consumers' Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 June 22 instead of the 20th. "I think we're now ready to work on a final draft," Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said, following testimony from a panel of industry executives, academics, media activists and even the National Guard, all taking their last official shots at shaping a the bill aimed at streamlining the video franchise process as well as addressing numerous other issues from the broadcast flag and unlicensed wireless devices to the DTV transition and even reducing phone rates for soldiers stationed abroad. Reactions to the committee's second draft of the bill, which began circulating in the wider world Monday, varied.
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