The House Communications Subcommittee will hold a hearing...
The House Communications Subcommittee will hold a hearing next month on the video market and questions surrounding the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, which requires reauthorization by the end of next year. “Whether over the air from local broadcasters,…
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through a paid subscription to a satellite, cable, or fiber provider, or streaming over the Internet, consumers have unprecedented access to view quality video content,” said Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., in a written statement Wednesday. “Each of these technologies faces a different regime of laws and regulations that have been developed over the last four decades. The subcommittee will examine whether these laws are still serving the needs of consumers, content creators, broadcasters, and video distributors in the modern communications marketplace.” The subcommittee said it would hold the hearing in September, but its news release (http://1.usa.gov/19ipgFG) didn’t give a date or time. Walden said earlier this summer that he expects a “clean” reauthorization of the act (CD May 24 p8).