NBC Will Have First Interview With 'Speaker' Boehner

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

According to
NBC, it has snagged the first sit-down with incoming Republican House Speaker
John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Anchor Brian Williams
will conduct the interview for the Jan. 6 edition of NBC Nightly News. The new House convenes this week with Republicans
in the majority pledging to undo the Obama health care plan. Attempting to
block the FCCs' just-passed network neutrality rules is also on the
agenda.

An extended
version of the Boehner interview will be available at nightly.msnbc.com.

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.