FCC Commissioners to Testify at Hill Spectrum Hearing

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

All five FCC commissioners have been scheduled to
testify at the House Energy and Commerce committee's Dec.
12 hearing on the status of the FCC's implementation of spectrum incentive
auctions.

It will make a for a busy day for the commissioners, who
have a long-standing public meeting scheduled for the date with at least three
items to vote -- though they could be pulled if they were voted beforehand.

The FCC meeting has been moved to the afternoon from its
customary morning start to accommodate the House hearing, which is scheduled
for 10 a.m. and was officially announced by the subcommittee Tuesday.

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.