FCC's back burner is backing up
By BroadCasting & Cable Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/7/2003 2:00:00 AM MT
House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.)and Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell have made the June 2 approval of new broadcast-ownership rules their top priority.
Powell made that clear in a speech two weeks ago to the Media Institute in Washington, D.C..
Tauzin weighed in with a letter to Powell stressing the June date.
But that determination to meet the deadline is putting other key issues on the back burner.
Tauzin's new digital-TV legislation, once predicted to be unveiled before Easter, is not expected until sometime in May.
The FCC's new cable-ownership rules, once intended for approval prior to the broadcast limits, have been forced down the queue, as well, and no movement is expected until late June or early July.
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