The Future of Music Coalition is hoping you will express your opposition to further deregulation of media ownership rules - the Duke hearing is going on right now:

FCC Media Ownership Hearing [download a flyer]
Monday, March 31, 2003
Duke University Law School, Durham, NC
Time: 12:30 PM - 5 PM
Location: Room 3043 of Law School (overflow room: 2036, Blue Lounge)
[review the day's schedule]

The Federal Communications Commission will hold a public hearing on media ownership regulations at Duke Law School. This hearing is open to all members of the public and will feature several of the FCC commissioners along with representatives of broadcasting companies from North and South Carolina.

Confirmed VIP attendees include:
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein
US Congressman Richard Burr (R)
US Congressman David E. Price (D)

The hearing will be organized into three panels - "Localism and Community Standards," "News," and "Diversity." [review panel participants here] After the panels, there will be an opportunity for members of the general public to make comments. To better insure that participant comments become part of the FCC public record Duke Law School will have computers available near the Blue Lounge (2nd floor student lounge) overflow area with access to the FCC's comment submission page.

If you go: The Washington Duke Inn (2 blocks from Duke Law School) has graciously donated a portion of their lot for FCC hearing participants. Please park on the far left side of the parking lot away from the entrance to the hotel. Directions to the Washington Duke Inn can be found at: http://www.washingtondukeinn.com/contact.html

Live Webcast will be available at: http://www.law.duke.edu/webcast/

FCC Media Ownership Hearing [download a flyer]
Wednesday, April 2, 2003
Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, IL
Time: 9:30 AM - 4 PM
Location: Lincoln Hall, 357 E. Chicago Avenue
[download a schedule]

Industry leaders, activists and academics will address new FCC regulations at a Midwest Public Forum on Media Ownership to be hosted by Northwestern University School of Law on Wednesday, April 2 at 10 a.m. in Lincoln Hall at 357 E. Chicago Avenue. Michael J. Copps, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will be in attendance.

The forum, which is the first of its kind in the Midwest, is free and open to the public. Organized by students in the Media and Entertainment Law Society at Northwestern in conjunction with local media groups, the forum was developed in response to FCC Chairman Michael Powell's challenge, made at the Columbia University Forum, to "give us something we can use..[to] develop [media] ownership policies that truly serve the American Public." The forum setting will give attendees the opportunity to voice their opinions before the public and the FCC about the impact of proposed changes.

FCC Media Ownership Hearing
Monday, April 7, 2003
Arizona State University
Time: 1 p.m - 4:30 p.m.
Location: KAET Channel 8 television studio

On Monday, April 7, 2003, the Benton Foundation will hold the Arizona Forum on Media Ownership, in partnership with Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Maricopa Community College District's Center for Civic Participation.

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