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HARRISBURG, Pa. — More than 300 people packed Harrisburg’s Whitaker Center for Science and Arts today to testify about potentially sweeping changes to the nation’s media ownership rules.

WASHINGTON — As the Federal Communications Commission convenes its third public hearing on sweeping changes to the nation’s media ownership rules today in Harrisburg, Pa., the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has called on the FCC to crack down on members of the public who stray from their Designated Market Areas to testify before the agency.

COLUMBUS — Federal Communications Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein, Michael Copps and Robert McDowell will visit Columbus, Ohio, on March 7 to listen to local residents’ concerns about media consolidation. This “Town Meeting on the Future of Media” is a rare opportunity for the public to participate directly in crafting media policies that serve their community.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A broad-based coalition of local and national groups is urging the public to turn out for the Federal Communications Commission’s third official hearing on sweeping changes to the nation’s ownership rules.

The FCC public hearing will take place:

Friday, Feb. 23
Hearing Starts at 9 a.m. — Public Testimony until 2:30 p.m.
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts

HARRISBURG, Pa. — On Feb. 23, all five Federal Communications Commissioners will meet face-to-face with the public at a hearing in Harrisburg to discuss sweeping changes to the nation’s media ownership rules.

WASHINGTON — As the Federal Communications Commission prepares to settle with the broadcasters found violating payola rules, Industry Ears, Future of Music Coalition and Free Press expressed grave concern over the reportedly lenient terms of the consent decree.

MEMPHIS - On the weekend before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, headliners at the National Conference for Media Reform evoked the legacy of the civil rights movement while rallying more than 3,500 attendees for media reform.

MEMPHIS — FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein tonight told the thousands of people gathered at the National Conference for Media Reform to bury any attempts by the FCC to roll back media ownership rules “six feet deep.”

MEMPHIS - Journalist and author Bill Moyers denounced Big Media corporations Friday in a fiery speech that opened the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis.

MEMPHIS — FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps tonight challenged thousands gathered at the National Conference for Media Reform to enact a new “American Media Contract,” calling for citizens to stand up and “get rid of the bad old rules that got us into this mess in the first place.”