Kansas city reflector in topeka. Anchorally, michael, it. Nd factfinder 12 investigator each candidate will have three minutes for an Opening Statement. When questions are asked to the who will answer the question for throughout todays debate. Candidate a comment after the question is asked will have one minute to respond. That will be followed by candidate b who will have one minute to respond, and then candidate a will have 30 seconds for rebuttal. Each candidate will have two minutes 30 seconds for their closing statements. Hours as our timekeeper for todays debate is the broadcaster with the Kansas Agriculture Network and wibw radio in topeka. A blind draw was done to determine the order for opening and closing statements. The Opening Statement will be started by congressman Roger Marshall. You have three minutes for your Opening Statement. I want to offer our prayers to the ginsburg family. We pray for wisdom as a nation moves forward. If there is one thing i hope here this mornin
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Hearing on legislation governing retransmission of broadcast Television Content by satellite tv companies. Representatives from the National Association of broadcasters, at t, the cable industry, and the Public Interest group testified at this hearing held by house energy and subcommittee on communications. There we go. Will now come to order. The chair recognizes himself for five minutes. Good morning, id like to welcome everyone to the subcommittees first hearing for stellar and evolving marketplace. Id like to thank our witnesses for appearing before us to address these important issues. Five years ago passed the act, extended authorization for Satellite Television companies to provide broadcast content to unserved households. According to satellite tv industry, this provision enables roughly 870,000 customers in mostly rural to receive broadcast television signals. These customers fall into a few categories, first is households that cant receive content using an antenna. Second is
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Who serves on the judiciary and commerce communities. The text that opposition to the merger. This was hosted by the georgetown law institute. Good afternoon. Welcome im so excited to see this crowd, to talk about the merger of the future media ownership. My name is gigi and im a fellow with the Georgetown Institute for technology. I want to thank a couple of folks, the institute for public representation which is part of georgetown law center, the Benton Foundation the mozilla foundation. Also senator blumenthal of connecticut who your be hearing from soon and jamie was a Research Fellow at georgetown and alexander who is head of the institute for you may have heard she broke her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping. A shoplifter knocked them over. I was in there the day before. Anyway if you could send well wishes to her. Also the other georgetown students gathered by andy, panelists helping today with logistics. The me set the stage. In may Sinclair Broadcast Group ann