The House Communications Subcommittee will hold a hearing next month on the video marketnand questions surrounding the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, which requires reauthorizationnby the end of next year. “Whether over the air from local broadcasters, through a paid subscriptionnto a satellite, cable, or fiber provider, or streaming over the Internet, consumers have unprecedented accessnto view quality video content," said Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., in a written statement Wednesday.n“Each of these technologies faces a different regime of laws and regulations that have been developednover the last four decades. The subcommittee will examine whether these laws are still serving the needsnof consumers, content creators, broadcasters, and video distributors in the modern communications marketplace."nThe subcommittee said it would hold the hearing in September, but its news releasen(http://1.usa.gov/19ipgFG) didn't give a date or time. Walden said earlier this summer that he expects an"clean" reauthorization of the act (CD May 24 p8).
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