Video, live and ondemand to follow the transition of power and President Trump and president elect biden with news conferences and events coverage at cspan. Org. Good afteron everybody and welcome to politics and prose live at lunch where we bring you our politics and prose are grammy during our lunch time hour. Im an Event Coordinator and we thank you so much for joining here to celebrate the release of livewired by doctor David Eagleman. At any time during the event today you can click the link that i will put in the chat to purchase a copy of tonights books on pnps website. Yocan ask the author a questions afternoon by setting it to the q a box the button for which can be found at the bottom of your screen and be sure to put your question in the q a and not in the chat to make sure that the author and i see it. On to our main event this afrnoon. Doctor David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a New York Times best selling author and he has the center for science and law National Nonpr
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
[inaudible conversations] we will now come to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes. Good morning. Id like to welcome everyone to the subcommittees first hearing of the new congress on the evolving media marketplace. It also like to thank her witnesses for appearing before us today to discuss these important issues. Five years ago this committee passed reauthorization act this spill extended the operation for Satellite Television companies to provide broadcast content to unserved households. According to the satellite tv industry this provision enables roughly 870,000 customers in mostly rural amenities to receive over the air broadcast Television Signals. These customers fall into a few categories per the first is household they cannot receive broadcast content using an antenna for the second as markets where satellite providers do not offer local to local service and the third is short markets where there are no local affiliate stations with any of the records and