Wheeler Lined Up For ACA Summit

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has agreed to speak at the American Cable Association's annual summit in Washington.

That will come in the form of a Q&A with ACA president Matt Polka April 2. The conference runs April 1-3 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington.

"ACA is honored that Chairman Wheeler will speak to our group of independent cable operators who are deploying high-speed broadband Internet services in many areas of the country, including some of the hardest-to-serve rural and remote regions," Polka said in a statement.

ACA represents nearly 900 smaller and midsized cable operators serving over 7 million subs.

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.