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New Chief of CGB; AT&T/BellSouth Merger; Access to Emergency Programming
Consumer Contact List
From: Karen Peltz Strauss
Re: Consumer Contact List: New Chief of CGB;
AT&T/BellSouth Merger; Access to Emergency Programming
Date: January 2, 2007
1.
New Bureau Chief in CGB. The FCC has named Catherine Seidel as the
new bureau chief of its Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. A link to
the Chairman's announcement is below.
CHAIRMAN KEVIN J.
MARTIN ANNOUNCES THE CHIEF OF THE WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU AND
CHIEF OF THE CONSUMER AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS BUREAU. News Release. News
Media Contact: Clyde Ensslin at (202) 418-0506 OCM
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269273A1.doc>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269273A1.pdf>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269273A1.txt>
2. AT&T/BellSouth Merger. The FCC's recent approval of the
AT&T/BellSouth Merger contains a voluntary, enforceable commitment by AT&T
(made on December 28, 2006) to provide the FCC, within 12 months of the
merger closing date, a report describing the company's efforts to provide
high quality service to customers with disabilities. This commitment
follows requests from disability groups to ensure that the merged company
responsibly meets the needs of people with disabilities. Both Commissioner
Copps and Commissioner Adelstein prepared statements responding to the
merger that include mention of this disability access merger commitment.
Links to these statements are below.
FCC APPROVES MERGER OF
AT&T INC. AND BELLSOUTH CORPORATION. Significant Public Interest Benefits
Likely to Result. News Release.
(Dkt No 06-74). News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253 WCB
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A2.doc>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A3.doc>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A4.doc>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A5.doc>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A1.pdf>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A2.pdf>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A3.pdf>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A4.pdf>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A5.pdf>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A1.txt>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A2.txt>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A3.txt>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A4.txt>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269275A5.txt>
3. Clarification of
Clarification on Emergency Programming. In July, the FCC released a
clarification of its rules on the obligations of video programming
distributors to make their emergency programming visually accessible. In
August, the FCC released another clarification of its rules on this issue.
Consumers were concerned that the FCC's second clarification gave the
television distributors too much leeway to avoid their obligations. The FCC
has now released a third clarification (to its August Clarification), to
better define these obligations. This notice is attached.
Released: 12/29/2006.
OBLIGATION OF VIDEO PROGRAMMING DISTRIBUTORS TO MAKE EMERGENCY INFORMATION
AVAILABLE. (DA No. 06-2627). CGB. Contact: Thomas Chandler at (202)
418-1475, TTY: (202) 418-0597, email:
Thomas.Chandler@fcc.gov
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-2627A1.doc>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-2627A1.pdf>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-2627A1.txt>
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