Good morning, i would like to welcome you. Like to thank our witnesses for appearing before us today to discuss these issues. Nt five years ago, this committee passed a stellar reauthorization act. Extended the authorization for satellite provide n companies to broadcast content to unserved households. According to the satellite tv industry this enables roughly 700,000 customers in mostly Rural Communities to receive over the air broadcast television signals. These customers fall into a few categories. The first is household that is receive broadcast content using an antenna. A second is markets where satellite provider does not offer localtolocal service, markets, hird is short where there are no local affiliated stations with one of finally, rks, and satellite tv subscribers have received service through a or an rv. Truck in effect this provision enables dish and omers of directv to receive content from fox, and other where it stations isnt otherwise available. Cable, also required t
Just past the toll plaza. Theres a hayward interpretive center, on the eastbound side is where the truck went off the roadway anded into the m into t area. It had a vehicle on the back of it. Right now one vehicle is getting by, but right now traffic is so light folks are able to make their way by without problems. Just a distraction. Heading to hayward now, getting off the san mateo bridge, you have to clear over to the Left Shoulder because the right two lanes are blocked. We have a crew heading out there to get the best pictures as they can while maintaining their safety. At least the weather not complicating things. As we start out the morning looking nice and quiet. Live look at san jose. As you head out the door, we have low 60s. It will be breezy and cooler as we go into the afternoon. Temperatures about 80 degrees. Morgan hill today reaching 85. Well talk about all of our microclimates coming up and look ahead to the weekend coming up. The investigation is now coming no focus i
Transportation just arrived, i believe they said you can ruin this wi you can move this without ruining the roadway. So theyre doing that. So there is that distraction. The countercommute drive is slowing as you pass that one lane. Westbound is the commute direction there. Dumbarton bridge moving smoothly. 880 north, two crashes cleared to the shoulder in oakland. That has slowed you down. And a second Traffic Alert, up in st. Helena, northbound highway 29 is still closed. Used zinfandel as an alternate. A pleasant start to the day with mostly clear skies across many of our microclimates. Lets get you out the door in palo alto a live look out there. Temperatures will start out cool. Upper 50s. More sunshine, lower humidity and lower temperatures. Well talk about whats going on for the rest of the week coming up. Thank you. President trump heads to texas then to ohio following last weekends deadly mass shooting. But the president could get a chill y reception particularly n el paso. Let
[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
It has taken the bureau ten years of careful planning and preparation to make this census successful, but there is still much more work to be done. The census begins in january of 2020 in remote alaska and then in march everywhere else and between now and then the bureau has to finalize its communications campaign, conduct Robust Community outreach, finish hiring trusted local staff and perform final testing for dozens of critical i. T. Systems. As outlined in our constitution, the purpose of the census is to count every person in the country, but given the chaos and the confusion and the administration has generated as a result to include an untested citizenship question, the bureau has significant work to do to restore public trust in the census and to ensure that the Response Rates do not decline as a result. We need to make sure that everyone is able to respond to the census though the new online form or in whatever way they can including people without good internet access. People