[Ecommerce] Dec. 15: How will we pay for the digital future of public broadcasting?

[Manon Ress]

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How Will We Pay For...The Digital Future of Public Broadcasting
with

Jim Barksdale
President, Barksdale Management & former CEO, Netscape

The Honorable Reed Hundt
Senior Advisor, McKinsey and Co. and former Chair, Federal
Communications Commission

Kathleen Cox
President, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Pat Mitchell
President, PBS

John Lawson
President and CEO, Association of Public Television Stations

Michael Calabrese
Vice President, New America Foundation

  Wednesday
3:30 pm-4:30 pm
December 15, 2004

Location
American Enterprise Institute
12th Floor/Wohlsetter Conference Center
1150 17th Street
Washington, DC

Format: Discussion

Event Registration:
RSVP to Jennifer Buntman at buntman@newamerica.net or 202-986-4901
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As commercial stations prepare to leverage the enormous potential of
digital broadcasting, it remains unclear whether America=92s
non-commercial broadcasters will have the resources to keep pace =96 and
to deliver the enhanced community services that digital multi-casting
and interactive programming make possible. The presidents of the
principal public broadcasting entities will articulate their vision for
America=92s DTV future =96 and announce the launch of an Enhanced Funding
Initiative to propose a plan for a sustainable source of funding for
public service media in the digital era. EFI co-chairs Reed Hundt and
Jim Barksdale will also offer commentary.

The Intelligence Reform Act just passed by Congress included a
resolution promising legislation to bring a rapid conclusion to the
nation=92s transition to digital television. With DTV, stations will be
able to multi-cast two high definition, or six or more standard
definition programming streams, on the same spectrum space they use
today to transmit a single analog stream. While this explosion in
broadcasting capacity opens profitable opportunities for commercial
stations, it likewise offers local non-commercial stations the ability
to air far more local programming, and to form partnerships with
schools, local governments, nonprofit and public safety entities in each
of the more than 150 communities where they are based.

Please join us for this briefing on the coming debate over how America
will fund the future of public service media.



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Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress@cptech.org,
www.cptech.org

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