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December 5 Meeting Material


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  • Federal Register Notice

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  • The second meeting of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters was held on December 5, 1997 at the Export-Import Bank of the United States in Washington, DC.

    The following materials were distributed to Advisory Committee members in preparation for and at the meeting. Links are provided to documents available in electronic form. Please note that this site includes links to private and other public sites that contain related information, public comments provided to the Committee, statements of Committee panel members, and other material that may be of interest to the public. Provision of these links does not express or imply endorsement by the Commerce Department, NTIA, or the Advisory Committee.

    • White House press release announcing the appointment of Jose Luis Ruiz, Executive Director, National Latino Communications Center
    • Future meeting dates
    • List of members of the Advisory Committee (updated)
    • Biographies of the members of the Advisory Committee
    • Biographies of the panelists
    • Remarks of Paul Taylor, Executive Director of the Free TV for Straight Talk Coalition
    • "Proposal for a National Political Time Bank," Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law, submitted by Paul Taylor of the Free TV for Straight Talk Coalition
    • Free Television for Presidential Candidates: The 1996 Experiment, a report from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, submitted by Paul Taylor
    • Remarks of Mark Lloyd, Executive Director, Civil Rights Telecommunications Forum
    • Remarks of Andrew Jay Schwartzman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Media Access Project
    • Supplemental reading materials, Panel on "Perspectives from the Public Interest Community," submitted by Gigi Sohn, Executive Director of the Media Access Project
    • Introductory Remarks, Panel on "Perspectives from the Broadcast Industry," Robert W. Decherd, President and Chief Executive Officer of A.H. Belo Corporation
    • Testimony of W. Don Cornwell, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Granite Broadcasting Corporation
    • Testimony of Bob Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer, NBC. Available on the website of the Media Institute.
    • Testimony of Rita Ray, Executive Director, West Virginia Public Broadcasting (written testimony submitted for the record)
    • Testimony of America's Public Television Stations (written testimony submitted for the record)
    • Public Comment
    Committee information, meeting minutes, and documents produced for and by the Committee are available on this site and can also be obtained by emailing piac@ntia.doc.gov, by calling 202-482-1880, or by written request to:
    Karen Edwards
    Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters
    NTIA - Room 4720
    U.S. Department of Commerce
    Washington, DC 20230

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