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OPEN MEETING OF
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INTEREST OBLIGATIONS
OF DIGITAL TELEVISION BROADCASTERS
The Hotel Madison, 15th and M Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.
January 16, 1998
AGENDA
8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks
Leslie Moonves, President, CBS Television
Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
8:45 a.m. PANEL: The Technology of Digital Broadcasting and the
Implications for New Programming Services
Moderator: Robert D. Glaser, RealNetworks, Inc.
Bruce M. Allan, Vice President, Broadcast Division, Harris Corporation
Josh Bernoff, Principal Analyst, New Media Research, Forrester Research Inc.
Committee Discussion
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Briefing on Closed Captioning and Video Description of Broadcast
Programming
Moderator: Karen Peltz Strauss, National Association of the Deaf
James Tucker, Superintendent, Maryland School for the Deaf
Larry Goldberg, Director, CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
Nolan Crabb, Editor, Braille Forum, American Council of the Blind
11:45 a.m. Break
12:00 p.m. Briefing on Natural Disaster Information Systems
Peter Ward, Chairman, Working Group on Natural Disaster Information Systems
United States Geological Survey
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. Reconvene
PANEL: Educational Programming in the Digital Era
Moderator: Peggy Charren, Harvard University School of Education
Gordon Ambach, Executive Director, Council of State School Officers
Janet Poley, President, American Distance Education Consortium
Marilyn Gell Mason, Director, Cleveland Public Library
Fred Esplin, General Manager, KUED-TV, Salt Lake City,Utah
Gary Poon, Executive Director, Digital Television Strategic Planning Office, PBS
Committee Discussion
3:45 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Public Comment, Questions and Answers
4:30 p.m. Committee Discussion of Future Agenda
5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
Norman Ornstein; Leslie Moonves
5:15 p.m. Adjourn