PointSmart

The PointSmart.ClickSafe coalition (http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/94843-NCTA_Launches_Online_Safe...) July 8 will release recommendations for online child safety best practices for Internet companies.

The guidelines are the result of a coalition, which inludes Comcast, Cox, Verizon, Yahoo!, Google, the PTA and Common Sense Media (new FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is a founding board member of that group).They will be joined by Res. John Shimkus (R-IL) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) to announce the guidelines at a Capitol Hill press conference.

A task force made up of representatives of those and other groups has been working on the guidelines for over a year.

The FCC is scheduled to release a report to Congress next month about the status of various methods of giving parents more control of content across all media.

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.