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WASHINGTON - A broad coalition of small and independent publishers sent a letter to the Postal Board of Governors last night, opposing a plan that burdens smaller publishers with higher postage rates and unfairly locks in the best prices for the largest media companies. The crippling hike — proposed by the nation’s largest publisher, Time Warner Inc.

TAMPA, Fla. — A diverse coalition of local and national groups is urging the public to attend the Federal Communications Commission’s fourth official hearing on sweeping changes to the nation’s ownership rules.

The FCC public hearing will take place:

Monday, April 30
4 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
Louise Lykes Ferguson Hall
1010 North W.C. MacInnes Place

TAMPA, Fla. — On April 30, all five Federal Communications Commissioners will meet face-to-face with the public at a hearing in the Tampa Bay area to discuss sweeping changes to the nation’s media ownership rules.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission should use its auction of the valuable 700 MHz spectrum to create high-speed Internet service that will be a true competitor to broadband services offered by telephone and cable companies, a group of public-interest and consumer groups said today.

WASHINGTON — Consumer groups and media policy experts today called on the Federal Communications Commission to carefully scrutinize the $8.2 billion takeover of Tribune Co. by Chicago real estate tycoon Sam Zell.

WASHINGTON — Today, the Federal Communications Commission announced an inquiry into Net Neutrality — the fundamental Internet principle that prevents phone and cable companies from discriminating against Web sites and services based on their source, ownership or destination.

WASHINGTON - The SavetheInternet.com Coalition, a broad, grassroots alliance of groups fighting for a free and open Internet, today urged a key House committee to ask tough questions of the Federal Communications Commission, as Congress considers rewriting the laws that will shape the future of communications in America.

COLUMBUS — Nearly 400 people packed into the Broad Street Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday night to testify for more than four hours about the threat of sweeping changes to the nation’s media ownership rules.

WASHINGTON — The satellite radio companies are not coming clean with American consumers about their pricing plans under a combined company, according to the testimony of Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America and Free Press before today’s House Telecommunications Subcommittee hearing.

Today, the Federal Communications Commission released a “Report and Order” that would circumvent local control over video franchising and reject longstanding public interest requirements. Representatives of consumer, media reform and media policy groups made the following statements:

Ben Scott, Policy Director, Free Press, (202) 265-1490