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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 - 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.”

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 — The 2007 National Conference for Media Reform — a landmark event filled with rousing speeches, musical performances, provocative panels and instructive workshops — promises to put reforming America’s media system in the national spotlight.

WASHINGTON —Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) introduced the Wireless Innovation Act of 2007 yesterday, directing the Federal Communications Commission to move quickly to free up valuable but unused broadcast airwaves – known as “white spaces” — which could then be used for unlicensed, wireless broadband.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2007 today, reopening the debate in Congress over Net Neutrality - the fundamental principle that prevents Internet service providers from discriminating online.