C-SPAN to Webcast Cable Rates Hearing

C-SPAN said it will carry Thursday’s 9:30 a.m. (EST) hearing on "Escalating Cable Rates" on its Web site, C-SPAN.org (www.c-span.org).

Set to testify at the Senate hearing are Cox Communications Inc. president Jim Robbins, ESPN president George Bodenheimer, Knology Holdings Inc.’s Rodger Johnson, the Consumer Union’s Gene Kimmelman and Marilyn Praisner of the Montgomery County (Md.) Council.