John Lawson and Reverend Noelle York-Simmons talked about President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proclamation of a National Day of Prayer for January 1, 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pea…
1,105 viewsC-SPAN visited booths of some of the companies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which included demonstrations of some of the newest technology in the fields of solar power, DNA…
352 viewsWitnesses testified about the Children’s Television Act of 1990, focusing on areas for improvement in light of new digital media technologies. Among the topics they addressed were the availa…
846 viewsJohn Lawson was interviewed about issues affecting public television. He described the role public television stations have in the upcoming transition to digital television, bandwidth availa…
67 viewsThe Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on digital television. Witnesses testified about the future of broadcasting, dual must-carry and multicasting regulat…
235 viewsThe subcommittee heard testimony on all-hazards alert systems, focusing on the need for a national all-hazards alert and public warning system. Witnesses testified about emergency communicat…
179 viewsThe Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee heard testimony on funding for Public Broadcasting. PBS executives testified about the uses of public funding …
120 viewsChairman Powell and television industry officials talked about the implementation and distribution of high definition television. Among the topics they addressed were regulatory issues, mark…
207 viewsWitnesses testified before the House Energy and Commerce committee about the state of public television and the future of public television programming and services. Among the issues they ad…
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