The New America Foundation invites you to a Capitol Hill luncheon forum
Removing Barriers to Rural and Municipal Wireless Broadband
Featuring:
* Pierre de Vries Senior Fellow, USC Annenberg School for Communication, Former Senior Director of Advanced Technology Policy, Microsoft Corp.
* Leonard Scott MIS Unit Manager Corpus Christi (TX) Digital Community Development Corporation
* Brian O’Hara, Government Affairs Representative, National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA)
Sen Byron Dorgan (D-SD): "Do you still feel comfortable suggesting that in one major American city it’s fine for one company to own eight radio stations, three television stations, the cable company (and) the dominant newspaper? Does that give you pause?"
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin: "Yes, it gives me pause. I'm not so sure I was comfortable with the decision when we made the decision previously."
BOXER SAYS FCC 'STIFLED' LOCAL NEWS DATA
[SOURCE: tvnewsday, AUTHOR: Harry A. Jessell]
FCC CHAIRMAN EXPRESSES CONSOLIDATION CONCERNS
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
MARTIN SAYS FCC SHOULDN'T REGULATE ONLINE VIDEO
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
FCC TO AWAIT CONGRESS ON EMERGENCY ALERT
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Look for the FCC to keep its open proceeding on a revised emergency alert system open until the end of the year. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday that he would be willing to delay that proceeding's conclusion to give Congress a chance to weigh in on its own proposal for a wireless-based alert system.
TESTIMONY OF FCC CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN
[SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission]
TESTIMONY OF JOHN M.R. KNEUER, NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
[SOURCE: National Telecommunications and Information Administration]
The staff director of the Senate Commerce Committee told communications attorneys that Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is still talking one-on-one with senators to secure the votes needed to debate telecommunications legislation. Lisa Sutherland said at a Capitol Hill briefing that since Stevens returned to Washington this week, he had been busy with floor debate of the fiscal 2007 Defense appropriations bill. But she added, "That's not such a bad place to talk with people... Sen. Stevens remains optimistic he can get 60 votes. He's working with Sen. [Daniel] Inouye to get the bill up." James Assey, the counsel for Hawaii's Inouye, the ranking Democrat on the committee, did not sound as optimistic that a vote would happen this session, saying it is such a multifaceted version compared with the House's. "We just have to wait and see," Assey said. Rumors have circulated that Stevens may try to divide the bill and attach it to different appropriations bills. "If he's doing that, it's news to me," Sutherland said. "Sen. Stevens isn't going to do something Sen. Inouye has major heartburn with." She said if some senators do not like sections of the entire bill, they can offer amendments then.
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said Tuesday that the issue of Net Neutrality may well kill his communications bill. He said the controversy "may well lead to its total defeat after 19 months" of work. At the nomination hearing of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Sen Stevens asked Martin whether the FCC had identified any cable or telephone networks that had blocked access to content. Chairman Martin said there was one instance, that the Commission moved swiftly to address. He also said he thought the FCC had the authority to step in whenever it identified such violations. He said the FCC has monitored the marketplace vigilantly.
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