[opendtv] News: Senators Plan Reg Road Show
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- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:42:23 -0500
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA487793.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP
Senators Plan Reg Road Show
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/13/2004 5:45:00 PM
In a move that evokes the public-interest town meetings of Federal
Communications Commission Democrat members Michael Copps and Jonathan
Adelstein, two of the most influential legislators regarding
telecommunications policy will be going on the road, too.
Inouye (D-Hawaii) told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that he and Ted
Stevens (R-Alaska.), will hold six such meetings across the country
to let the public weigh in on possible changes to the
Telecommunications Act.
As the ranking democrat and chairman, respectively, of the Senate
Commerce Committee, Inouye and Stevens will preside over a planned
rewrite of the Act. Inouye has expressed reservations about whether
the new act should give cable the "breaks" it got the first time
around when it was "in its infancy." Inouye also points out that the
1996 rewrite of the act does not address the internet.
Of the town hall meetings, Inouye told the paper: ""We are going to
begin in January after the inauguration, and continue in February.
Inouye, who has expressed reservations about loosening broadcast
ownership rules, says that issue will come up in the act review as
well.
"Now there are people expressing concern, and this will be one of
the questions we will be inquiring into," Inouye said.
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