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The FCC held its third official public hearing on media ownership issues in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, Feb. 23rd at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts.
Over 300 people turned out to let the FCC know how they felt about the possibility of Big Media getting bigger. Concerned citizens offering testimony were overwhelmingly against any loosening of the ownership caps.
The hearing featured a panel presentation from local broadcasters and community leaders with opportunities for public testimony after that. So many people were interested in offering testimony that the Commission had to move the event into the lobby after they had long run over the time they had reserved in the performance center.
This public hearing is one of the public's few chances to speak out against Big Media before FCC Chairman Kevin Martin moves to lift the last significant limits to runaway media consolidation.
Martin has promised to "hold public hearings in diverse locations around the country to fully involve the American people" in the FCC's review of media ownership rules. The Harrisburg event was the third of "half a dozen" proposed hearings.
At the first official hearing, held in Los Angeles, more than 1,000 members of the public attended and overwhelming expressed their opposition to any rule changes that would let Big Media companies swallow up more local outlets.
Similar sentiments against Big Media were expressed at the previous official hearing in Nashville which drew country legends like George Jones, Porter Wagoner and Naomi Judd who testified on the negative impact of consolidation on the country music industry.
The marriage of Comcast and NBC is bad news for consumers. But Washington and Wall Street have already bought into the idea that it's a done deal. That's why Americans need to speak out now and stop the mega-merger!
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