Press Release
FCC Commissioners in Oakland for Hearing on Media Consolidation
Contact: Timothy Karr, 201-533-8838
OAKLAND — Federal Communications Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps will visit Oakland tomorrow, Oct. 27, to listen to local concerns about media consolidation. This is the only forum on media ownership in Northern California.
WHAT: Public Hearing on the Future of Media
WHEN: Friday, Oct. 27, 2006, 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Oakland Marriott City Center, 1001 Broadway at 10th St.
WHO: FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps, national and local leaders, media representatives and concerned citizens.
The Public Hearing on the Future of the Media is taking place as the FCC reviews federal rules on media ownership. The FCC has proposed changing how many television stations one company can own and allowing one company to own television stations, radio stations and the major daily newspaper in the same market.
The public hearing will feature panel discussions on how media concentration affects local news and information. Panel participants include Al Hammond, director, Broadband Institute of California, Santa Clara University School of Law; John McManus, director, Grade the News; Karen Slade, general manager, KJLH-FM; Micheline Wilcoxen, executive director, Community Technology Organizing Consortium of Southern California; Paul Porter, co-founder, Industry Ears; and Tram Nguyen, executive editor, ColorLines. Tanya Hart, host of Hollywood Live, will moderate the discussion.
The Oakland hearing is sponsored by the NAACP, Media Alliance, Youth Media Council and Free Press and endorsed by Applied Resource Center, Coleman Advocates for Youth, ColorLines, Communities United Against Violence, Critical Resistance, Just Cause Oakland, La Raza Centro Legal, Power, Prometheus Radio Project, San Francisco Day Laborers Program, School of Unity and Leadership, SPIN Project, Youth in Focus, and Youth Movement Records.
For more information on the Oakland hearing on media ownership visit www.stopbigmedia.com/=oakland
To get background on the state of media in the Bay Area, visit www.media-alliance.org
WHAT: Public Hearing on the Future of Media
WHEN: Friday, Oct. 27, 2006, 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Oakland Marriott City Center, 1001 Broadway at 10th St.
WHO: FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps, national and local leaders, media representatives and concerned citizens.
The Public Hearing on the Future of the Media is taking place as the FCC reviews federal rules on media ownership. The FCC has proposed changing how many television stations one company can own and allowing one company to own television stations, radio stations and the major daily newspaper in the same market.
The public hearing will feature panel discussions on how media concentration affects local news and information. Panel participants include Al Hammond, director, Broadband Institute of California, Santa Clara University School of Law; John McManus, director, Grade the News; Karen Slade, general manager, KJLH-FM; Micheline Wilcoxen, executive director, Community Technology Organizing Consortium of Southern California; Paul Porter, co-founder, Industry Ears; and Tram Nguyen, executive editor, ColorLines. Tanya Hart, host of Hollywood Live, will moderate the discussion.
The Oakland hearing is sponsored by the NAACP, Media Alliance, Youth Media Council and Free Press and endorsed by Applied Resource Center, Coleman Advocates for Youth, ColorLines, Communities United Against Violence, Critical Resistance, Just Cause Oakland, La Raza Centro Legal, Power, Prometheus Radio Project, San Francisco Day Laborers Program, School of Unity and Leadership, SPIN Project, Youth in Focus, and Youth Movement Records.
For more information on the Oakland hearing on media ownership visit www.stopbigmedia.com/=oakland
To get background on the state of media in the Bay Area, visit www.media-alliance.org
