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Information Needs of Communities | FCC.gov - 0 views

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FCC.gov information public attitudes toward radio media ecology

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  • In culmination of its work over the last year, the FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities delivered a report on June 9, 2011 addressing the rapidly changing media landscape in a broadband age. In 2009, a bipartisan Knight Commission found that while the broadband age is enabling an information and communications renaissance, local communities in particular are being unevenly served with critical information about local issues. Soon after the Knight Commission delivered its findings, the FCC initiated a staff-level working group to identify crosscurrent and trend, and make recommendations on how the information needs of communities can be met in a broadband world. Read the Report Download the Report Related Material
  • Tom Johnson on 04 Oct 11
     
    In culmination of its work over the last year, the FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities delivered a report on June 9, 2011 addressing the rapidly changing media landscape in a broadband age. In 2009, a bipartisan Knight Commission found that while the broadband age is enabling an information and communications renaissance, local communities in particular are being unevenly served with critical information about local issues. Soon after the Knight Commission delivered its findings, the FCC initiated a staff-level working group to identify crosscurrent and trend, and make recommendations on how the information needs of communities can be met in a broadband world. Read the Report Download the Report Related Material http://www.fcc.gov/info-needs-communities#read
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FCC Chair Wheeler advocates for public TV stations to sell spectrum | Current.org - 0 views

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fcc public stations sell spectrum

shared by Tom Johnson on 03 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Tom Johnson on 03 Dec 13
     
    "FCC Chair Wheeler advocates for public TV stations to sell spectrum Published on Current.org, December 3, 2013 By Dru Sefton Print This Page The new chair of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, is urging public broadcasters to sell their television bandwidth in upcoming spectrum auctions, reports TVNewsCheck. In an appearance Monday at Ohio State University in Columbus, Wheeler advocated for channel-sharing deals in which broadcasters would sell off pieces of spectrum and consolidate their signal with other broadcasters. Wheeler said that arrangement would give "forever cash-starved" pubcasters a "pot full of cash" that they could use as an endowment to run their operations while using spectrum more efficiently. "It may be just a great godsend to the PBS business," said Wheeler, a former PBS Board member. CPB has commissioned Booz & Co. to research the effect of spectrum policy issues on the pubTV system for a spring 2014 white paper. In interviews with system leaders for the report, researchers are finding "a significant commitment" to public-service use of spectrum, CPB s.v.p. Mark Erstling told CPB Board members at their September meeting. In fact, Erstling said, some g.m.'s are saying they could use additional bandwidth for public-service projects."
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