Witnesses Set for Government Reform Hearing

The witness list has been set for the House Communications Subcommittee hearing this week (June 22) on FCC process reform.

They are: John Sununu, co-chair of Broadband for America; Kathleen Abernathy, EVP, Frontier Communications and a former FCC commissioners; Mark Cooper, research director of the Consumer Federation of America; Ronald Levin, Washington University law professor; Randolph May, president of the Free State Foundation; and Brad Ramsay from the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

The Committee held an FCC reform last month, where it heard from the four commissioners still voting on items--Meredith Attwell Baker had already recused herself in preparation for exiting earlier this month for Comcast/NBCU.

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.