We moved all of the lanes of the communication highlighted and analog to digital. That was cable, broadcast, satellite and the satellites had been launched but the service had not yet begun. We did with the Digital Radio standard and my First Commission meeting we did ban for pcs and over an extraordinary time. And we were just [inaudible] speaking began the first auction at which point they used the hand placard to build. It was an exciting time to be there. Plus, on top of all of that we implemented the 1996 telecom act which dramatically changed the landscape by introducing competition in the local telepathy and video and also dramatically changed the landscape for broadcast widening the ability to consolidate properties. Host looking back 20 years later, did you get it right to connect to the groundwork laid correctly . Guest some of it we did but keep in mind the other thing we did was what was so important cspan can appreciate this greatly is establishing the Program Requirements
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
Good afternoon, my name is yonah alexander, im the director by the Potomac Institute of International Studies as well as the Inter University Center Institute in cooperation with many academic institutions, universities around the world, specifically i would like to mention the center for National Security of the university of Virginia School of law. On behalf of ceo and chairman of the Potomac Institute, he extends his welcome to you. Unfortunately he is out of the country, as i understand. At any rate, our colleagues and the Vice President in the back is with us and, of course, general gray, the chairman of the board of regents and 29th commandant of the marines corpse corps. But at any rate, let me welcome the speakers. First right here professor Mohamed Dajani to my left with currently fellow, the Washington Institute and he obviously contributed a great deal to understand islam and served as professor of Political Science university in jerusalem and will make a presentation today
Yet another shooting victim in our city. This time in the 600 belong of division avenue northeast. This time the victims a 27yearold man, shot and wounded outside this carryout around 2 00 this afternoon. Sources tell me that after the man was wounded, some people came by and rifled through his pockets. The man was taken to the hospital. Police arent talking about his condition, but homicide investigators have be called to the scene to work the cas now this comes in the midst of a spike in violence in our city. In the last week weve averaged about a murder a day. Theres been a lot of gunfire, a lot of vile innocence our city in the last week or so. Your concerns about that . Any explanation for it . We are obviously investigating all the cases, at this time we have not found any connection between the cases, and were moving forward on the investigations. Just last night a double homicide on southern avenue. I kind of wished they would find the person that did this to my dad and my brot