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FCC meetings need better production values, a Democratic member in the 1960s and ‘70s told us. “Since they regulate television, surely they” could get some guidance from “Hollywood,” said Professor Nicholas Johnson of the University of Iowa. “What they most…
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need is a producer.” The National Broadband Plan “is very impressive” but doesn’t much address pricing of fast-Web service, only availability, he said. Johnson couldn’t remember a proceeding during his time at the FCC whose scope compared to that of the plan, like the other members we surveyed (CD March 16 p6) who served in the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and past decade. The computer inquiry during his time came closest, Johnson said. Richard Wiley, Republican chairman then, agreed. While Gloria Tristani was a commissioner 1997-2001, “we never dealt with producing a plan of this magnitude,” she said. Henry Rivera, who served in the 1980s, said he could recall no report by the regulator to Congress “that equals this report in scope and scale or in the amount of commission resources utilized to give birth to it.”