PK: Lots on Broadcast Flag and Sununu

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Subject: In the Know - January 31, 2006
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:23:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Public Knowledge <pk <at> publicknowledge.org>
To: in-the-know <at> publicknowledge.org

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 In the Know -- a bimonthly Public Knowledge update
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January 31, 2006

Contents:

* Gigi Hill Testimony Postponed
* Sununu Comments Highlight Senate Broadcast Flag Hearing
* PK Weighs In on Flag

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 Gigi Hill Testimony Postponed
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We had been invited to testify before the Senate Commerce
Committee on Jan. 31 on the issue of video franchising.  That's
the question about whether telephone companies would have to
hopscotch around the country getting permission from each city
and county to offer cable-like programming services.  Cable
companies have been negotiating these local franchise agreements
for decades.