Host the communicators is at the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. We are going to show you some of the interviews were conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. And now joining us on the communicators is susan ness. Commissioner ness, what were some of issues you dealt with back in the 90s when you are an fcc commissioner . Guest peter, was the golden age of the federal communications commission. We moved all of the length of the communications highways from analog to digital. So that was cable, broadcast, satellite. The satellites have been launched but with the service d not yet begun. We came up with the Digital Television standards which is radio standard. My First Commission meeting we did band plan. It was an extraordinary time. And we were just given Auction Authority so we began the first auction at which point they actually used the hand placards to bid. So it was an exciting time to be there, plus on top of all that we im
The communicators is at the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. We will show you some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology users. Joining us on the communicators is susan, what were some of the issues you dealt with back in the 1990s when you were the fcc commissioner . It was the golden age of the federal communications commission. We moved all of the lanes of the communication highway, from analog to digital. That was cable broadcasts, satellite had been launched but the service had not yet begun. We came up with the Digital Television standards, which are radio standards. My First Commission meeting we did band plans for pcf. And we began the first auction, at which point they actually used the hand placard to bid. It was an exciting time to be there. We also implemented the 1996 telecom act, which dramatically changed the landscape by introducing competition in local telephony and video. And also radically changed
Commission, we moved all of the length from analog to digital. So that was cable, broadcast, satellite. The satellites have been launched but the service had not yet begun. We came up with a Digital Television standards, radio standards. My First Commission meeting, we did band plan and we were just getting auction authority. We begin the first auction at which point they used the hand placards to bid on. It was an exciting time to be there, plus on top of all that we implemented the 1996 telecom act which dramatically changed the landscape by introducing competition in local telepathy and video. And also dramatically changed the landscape for broadcast, widening the ability to consolidate broadcast propertie properties. Host looking back 20 years later, did you get it right . Did the groundwork laid correctly . Guest some of the did. Keep in mind the other thing we did which is so important, and cspan can appreciate this greatly, is Childrens Television programming, three hour require
Government. Created by cable in 1979 and brought to you today by your television provider. The communicators at the state conference in washington, d. C. We will show you some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials and Technology Leaders and now joining us on the communicators is susan, commissioner ness, tell us some of the issues you dealt with back in the 90s when you were an fcc commissioner. You know, the golden age of the commission. We moved all of the lanes of the communication from analog to digital. That was cable, broadcast, satellite, the satellite had been launched but it had not quite blowgun. We came up with the Digital Television standard, radio standard, my First Commission meeting, we did plans, and extraordinary time geared and we were just given auction authority. We began the first auction at which point they actually used the hand lacquered to bid on that. It was an exciting time to be there. We implemented this 1996 telecom
Federal communications commission. The lanes of the communications highway from analog to digital. That was cable, broadcast. Satellite. The satellites had been launched but the services had not yet begun. With the Digital Television standard, the radio standard. Meeting, itmission was an extraordinary time. We begin the first auction, at used handt they placards to bid. Implementedat, we this 1996 telecom act which dramatically changed the landscape by introducing in the video. Dramatically changed the landscape for broadcast. Widening the ability to consolidate broadcast properties. Looking back, did you get it right . Did the groundwork laid correctly . I think we did. And cspanwe did can appreciate this requirement for Childrens Television in broadcast. Some of it we got very right. Some of it, the marketplace said, we are not sure we need this anymore. The mission implemented the law. Issue with this telecom act isbasically congress basically settling battles that priorken place d