No Comcast-NBCU Hearing Webcast

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Turns out the House Energy & Commerce Committee is not streaming the July 8 field hearing in Chicago on the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger.

While a staffer for the committee told B&C Wednesday that the hearing would be Webcast, the committee said Thursday that the building where it is being held did not have that capabilty and apologized for any confusion.

A House Judiciary Committee hearing on the deal June 7 also was not Webcast.

Ironically, one of the issues in the deal is access to video content online.

"We just did not have he capacity to stream this field hearing," said a spokeswoman, who added that video and a transcript would be made available in the next couple of days.

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.