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The FCC held its fourth official public hearing on media ownership issues in Tampa, Fla.. Hundreds of citizens turned out for the event to express their concern about further media consolidation.
Listen to audio from the hearing:
Chairman Martin's opening remarks
The first panel presentation
The second panel presentation
Date: Monday, Apr. 30, 2007
Time: 4:00 - 11:00 p.m.
Location: Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
Map And Directions
The hearing featured panel presentations by local broadcasters and community leaders and public testimony afterwards.
See the panelists and read the agenda.
This public hearing is one of the public's few chances to speak out against Big Media before FCC Chairman Kevin Martin moves to lift the last significant limits to runaway media consolidation.
Martin has promised to "hold public hearings in diverse locations around the country to fully involve the American people" in the FCC's review of media ownership rules. The Tampa event will be the fourth of "half a dozen" proposed hearings.
At the first official hearing, held in Los Angeles, more than 1,000 members of the public attended and overwhelming expressed their opposition to any rule changes that would let Big Media companies swallow up more local outlets. Similar sentiments were expressed in Nashville and Harrisburg, Pa..
The marriage of Comcast and NBC is bad news for consumers. But Washington and Wall Street have already bought into the idea that it's a done deal. That's why Americans need to speak out now and stop the mega-merger!
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