Rockefeller adds on 'Indecency': senator: pay TV oversight should be in telecom bill.(John D. Rockefeller )
Multichannel News, March, 2006 by Hearn, Ted
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John D. (Jay) Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) said he wants to include in pending telecommunications-reform legislation proposals to authorize, for the first time in pay TV history, federal regulation of cable and satellite TV providers for indecent and excessively violent content.
Senate Commerce Committee chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is expected to unveil a telecom bill in a fewweeks and seek committee approval soon thereafter, a timetable that makes Rockefeller's effort a near-term political threat to cable.
"Sen. Rockefeller will offer his bill in its totality or section by section, as a series of amendments, as we move forward on this issue," James Reid, Rockefeller's Commerce panel aide, said last Monday. "I think you can...
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