C-SPAN to Cover Senate Cable Act Hearing

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C-SPAN tells B&C/Multichannel News it will be covering
the Senate Commerce Committee's Tuesday, July 24, hearing on the Cable Act of
1992.

According to C-SPAN exec Peter Kiley, the hearing will air
live on C-SPAN 3, as well as online at c-span.org.

The hearing, which is at 2:30 p.m., is expected to tough on
various future of TV issues, including retransmission consent regs, cable
program access and carriage rules, and over-the-top video.

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.