MMTC Launching Digital Entrepreneurs Organization

The Minority Media &
Telecommunications Council is unveiling a new organization to promote minority
businesses in the digital age.

According to MMTC Executive
Director David Honig, the attendees at its annual Access to Capital in
Telecommunications Policy Conference in Washington will be asked Tuesday night
to vote on a name and officially launch what he called a "new
movement" of minority digital entrepreneurs."

MMTC has been pushing theFCC to help out with more diversity initiatives in the broadcast space and
better enforcement--MMTC would say enforcement period--of its EEO rules,
but MMTC is also about helping folks help themselves. To that end, the
conference also features an opportunity for entrepreneurs to meet with bankers,
brokers and other investors.

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.