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Benton Forum on Spectrum Allocation
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Benton Forum to Discuss Advanced Television and Spectrum Allocation: The $100 Billion Giveaway Do you have an opinion about how we are going to connect schools to computer networks by the year 2000? Do you care if all American have access to the National Information Infrastructure? Do you think the public interest sector has a stake in the communications policies that are being set for decades to come? The Benton Foundation is unveiling a new public space on our world wide web site for discussion of communication policy issues and we invite you to become one of the initial participants in these discussions. Our first discussion topic is on spectrum allocation and the transition to digital television. Right now the owners of the airwaves -- the public -- are in a once-in-a-lifetime position to define what "in the public interest" will mean for the future of television. How do you know if you have a stake in this discussion? Do you care about children's television and the amount of violence on TV? Do you think free TV time would allow politicians to think more about issues and less about fundraising? Do you think broadcasters are doing enough as public trustees to merit more valuable spectrum? Our latest working paper, Pretty Pictures or Pretty Profits, outlines proposals for pursuing public interest goals while the rules that will govern the future of broadcasting are created. Pretty Pictures is accessible on the same web site as our new forum. Your input will help define what "in the public interest" means in the age of digital television. The Forum Page on Benton's World Wide Web site (http://cdinet.com/Benton) will make use of new Web tools to facilitate discussions on communications policy subjects. This technology will allow users to read and post opinions on public policy options and will also allow discussants to post responses in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) -- enabling posters to cite other locations on the Internet and to create links to those sites. The Benton Foundation is offering this Web site as a virtual salon for nonpartisan discussions of communications policy. The Benton Foundation's Communications Policy Project is a nonpartisan, foundation-sponsored initiative to strengthen public interest efforts in communications policy. It is our belief that the concurrent pressures of digital convergence, industry mergers, and renewed interest in rewriting essential elements of U.S. telecommunications policy offer a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create public policy that shapes the emerging communications system to serve the public interest. The opinions of responders in the Forum should not be represented as the opinions of the Benton Foundation or its employees. *Benton Foundation Communications Policy Project 1634 Eye Street NW, 12th Floor benton@benton.org Washington, DC 20006 phone: 202-638-5770 http://cdinet.com/benton fax: 202-638-5771 ```
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