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.
Hosted by National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
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