SBC and Time Warner officials will address a Senate Judiciary Sub...
SBC and Time Warner officials will address a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on video competition Wed. at 2 p.m. Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt and SBC Pres. Forrest Miller will be joined by NCTA head Kyle McSlarrow. Cable…
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executives will testify beside media activist Mark Cooper, research dir.-Consumer Federation of America, and The America Channel CEO Doron Gorshein. Gorshein has claimed cable has blocked carriage of independent programmers including The America Channel (CD Aug 5 p9). Precursor CEO Scott Cleland, also slated to address the hearing headed by Senator DeWine (R, O.), told us he plans a presentation showing that telecom competition has increased. In response to a committee request, he said he'll recommend a Congressional telecom rewrite start with “a new, clean slate” that replaces what he called “legacy technology-specific regulation.” Officials at NCTA, SBC, TAC and Time Warner Cable declined to discuss executives’ planned testimony. The House may hold a hearing similar to the Senate panel’s event, which had been expected (CD Aug 8 p5).