FCC Schedules Sept. 8 Digital Back-to-School Primer

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

The FCC will hold a back-to-school forum on the "the
opportunities and challenges" of technology use by teens in a digital
world, and says it plans future events targeted at other age groups.

The Sept. 8 event will include FCC Chairman Julius
Genachowski and representatives from MTV and Common Sense Media (Genachowski is
a founding board member), among others.

To get the conversation started, the commission has set
up a crowd-sourcing site to tee up
"burning questions" from parents.

It is the second year the FCC has held a digital
back-to-school event.

John Eggerton
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.