Hundt says hands off digital TV. (FCC Chairman Reed Hundt)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, April, 1996 by McConnell, Chris

FCC Chairman Reed Hundt says that as television broadcasters enter the digital age, regulators should stay away from interfering in the new service. With one exception. "We should state what the public interest obligations are," says Hundt, who at this week's NAB convention plans to pitch broadcasters his plan for a reduced regulation/re-enforced public interest trade-off.

He might get some support for the plan from Vice President Gore, who also will be speaking in Las Vegas this week. "I think that the public interest [requirement] attached to the airwaves has gone down considerably in the past 40 years," says Greg Simon, Gore's chief domestic policy adviser. Although he doesn't say what Gore will discuss this week, Simon says it is part of the...

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