Media Minutes for December 12, 2008
Producer: Stevie Converse & Candace Clement
Length: 5:00

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The FCC is tackling the thorny issue of cable program carriage. On December’s open meeting agenda: the complaint process for programmers and wholesale unbundling. And with 40 percent of all U.S. homes still not connected to high-speed Internet, millions of young people are left with few opportunities to succeed in school and beyond.

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