Comcast-NBCU: House Judiciary to Hold Field Hearing

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

The Federal Communications Commission may not yet have agreed to any
field hearings on the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal deal, but Congress has.

According
to an e-mail notification, the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a
hearing on the proposed $30-million joint venture for June 7, at 9 a.m., in Los
Angeles.

A spokesman for the committee confirmed the hearing, saying
field hearings were not unusual for the committee and that he expected
it would be presided over by committee chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.).

By
that time, the FCC is planning to have re-started its informal shot
clock on vetting the deal.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.