House Subcommittee Asked to Demand Answers from FCC at Oversight Hearing

HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ASKED TO DEMAND ANSWERS FROM FCC AT OVERSIGHT HEARING
[SOURCE: Campaign Legal Center & Benton Foundation]
Members of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet are being urged to demand answers from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding the lack of digital public interest obligations more than a decade after the process began. The request from the Campaign Legal Center and the Benton Foundation was hand delivered to Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey (D-MA) as he received the 2007 Susan G. Hadden Pioneer Award for his pioneering efforts on behalf of consumer access. The full Subcommittee received similar letters that included a timeline of the FCC's foot-dragging on digital public interest obligations dating back to 1995. All five FCC Commissioners are slated to appear before the Subcommittee in an oversight hearing scheduled for Thursday, February 15 at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Full text of letter at the URL below.
http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/press-2436.html

See also --
* Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters Timeline of Inaction 1995-2007
http://www.benton.org/index.php?q=node/4754

* Citizen's Guide to the Public Interest Obligations of Digital TV Broadcasters
http://www.benton.org/pioguide/index.html