FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has scheduled three more agenda meeting...
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has scheduled three more agenda meetings well in advance, fulfilling a goal he laid out to the other commissioners late last year and following concerns from some in Congress about insufficient public notice (CD Dec…
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31 p1). Meetings March 19, April 10 and May 14 meetings were set last week, an agency source said, and are listed on the FCC’s Web site. In December, Martin told his colleagues that he wanted to set dates for the first six meetings of 2008. Late that month, he scheduled the January and February meetings. Separately, Martin went to last week’s Davos conference of world political and corporate leaders, commission officials said. Among others who attended the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos were Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown. FCC Commissioner Deborah Tate stood in for Martin to speak at an NTIA meeting Thursday on DTV. Commission chairmen starting with Reed Hundt, who was the FCC’s chief 1993 to 1997, have gone to Davos, an agency source said.