FCC Media Ownership Workshop

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Date: Apr 20 2010 - 3:00pm - 7:30pm

Location:

University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Avenue Marshall Student Center, Tampa, FL, United States

Media Ownership Workshop

Federal Communications Commission
April 20, 2010
3:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296945A1.doc
Agenda: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-297451A1.doc

The workshop will be broadcast live over the Internet from the FCC Live web page at http://reboot.fcc.gov/live.

Questions from the Internet audience can be submitted throughout the course of the workshop via email to 2010quadrennial@fcc.gov and via Twitter using the hash tag #MoWksp.

Contact:
Krista Witanowski
FCC Media Bureau, 202-418-2449

The workshop will explore any benefits and harms of newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership and the impact these combinations have on competition and diversity in the media marketplace.

Agenda and Panelists

3:00 p.m. Opening Remarks
William Lake, Chief, Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission

3:15 p.m. Local Cross-Ownership

Steve Waldman, Senior Advisor to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski (Moderator)
Robert Dardenne, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, University of South Florida
Karen Dunlap, President, The Poynter Institute
Bernard Lunzer, President, The Newspaper Guild and Vice President, Communications Workers of America
Patrick Manteiga, Editor and Publisher, La Gaceta
John Schueler, President, Florida Communications Group, Media General, Inc.
Ken Tonning, President and General Manager, WTSP-TV, Gannett Company, Inc.
Marc Vila, Vice President and General Manager, WQBN-AM, Radio Tropical, Inc.
Sandy Wilson, Vice President of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs, Cox Enterprises, Inc.

4:30 p.m. Break

4:45 p.m. Questions and Answers

6:15 p.m. Public Comments

7:30 p.m. Adjournment

Public participation in the workshop is encouraged.

Open captioning of the forum will be provided. Other reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request. Include a description of the accommodation you will need. Also include a way we can contact you if we need more information. Last-minute
requests will be accepted, but may not be possible to fill. Send an e-mail to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at 202-418-0530 (voice), 202-418-0432 (tty).

For further information, contact Krista Witanowski, Media Bureau, 202-418-2449.