September 2005

FCC will hold a Commission Meeting at the FCC, 445 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC, 9:30 am.



FCC will hold a Commission Meeting at the FCC, 445 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC, 9:30 am.



FCC will hold a Commission Meeting at the FCC, 445 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC, 11:00 am.

Agenda

The Commission will consider: 1) a First Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking concerning the Emergency Alert System rules, 2) a Report and Order to adopt rules for satellite carriage of "significantly viewed" television stations pursuant to the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act (SHVERA), 3) the AT&T-SBC merger and 4) the Verizon-MCI merger. Cupcakes and lemonade will NOT be provided, but you can watch online at www.fcc.gov/realaudio.



9th Annual Conference of the Rural Telecommunications Congress
October 9-12, 2005 . Lexington, Kentucky . Lexington Center

RuralTeleCon convenes hundreds of small and rural business owners, officials from local, state, and federal agencies, as well as professionals from the fields of tele-health, distance learning, community economic development, e-government and public policy.

http://www.ruraltelecon.org/conference/



The Center for Creative Voices in Media is pleased to invite you to attend What Price Media Consolidation? a symposium at the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture’s biennial conference, “Taking Liberties: Freedom, Creativity, and Risk in the Media Arts,” in Philadelphia on Wednesday, September 28, 2005.



The 33rd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
http://www.tprc.org/TPRC05/2005.htm



National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) annual meeting
http://www.natoa.org/



On Thursday, September 22, 2005, the Full Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on Communications in a Disaster at 10:00 a.m. in room 562 of the Dirksen Building. The first panel will address the protection of critical communications infrastructure in a disaster. The second panel will address communications for first responders. Witnesses will be announced when available.
http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=1618