Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
Since the days of Ed Sullivan and Milton Berle, television has
been broadcast using the same technology and largely over the same
frequencies. That is about to change, with Congress now considering
plans to complete the transition to new digital TV technology,
including HDTV. This has raised a number of contentious issues:
Should a firm date be set on which traditional TV signals are
turned off? Should viewers without DTV sets receive government help
to buy converters? Should Congress require cable firms to carry all
of the new DTV channels? Would that be a "taking" of property under
the Constitution? And what does this all mean to the average
viewer?
We hope you can join us for what should be an informative and
provocative discussion of these and other issues regarding the
changes that are coming to your television set.
More About the Speakers
Thomas W. Hazlett
Professor of Law and Economics,
George Mason University,
and
former Chief Economist,
Federal Communications Commission
Peter Pitsch
Communications Policy Director,
Intel Corporation,
and former Chief of Staff,
Federal Communications Commission
Charles J. Cooper
Cooper and Kirk, PLLC
and former Assistant Attorney General,
Office of Legal Counsel
J.H. Snider
Senior Research Fellow,
New America Foundation
Ken Ferree
Former Chief Operating Officer,
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Hosted By
James Gattuso
Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy
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