October 19, 2001	
								
												
OFFICE OF PLANS AND POLICY ANNOUNCES ROUNDTABLE 
DISCUSSION OF MEDIA OWNERSHIP POLICIES 

MM Docket Nos. 01-235, 96-197, 92-264, 94-150, 92-51, 87-154
CS Docket Nos. 98-92, 96-85


Date:	October 29, 2001

Location:	Commission Meeting Room  (Room TW-C305) 
	Federal Communications Commission
	445 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20554

Time:		12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.


The FCC's Office of Plans and Policy will hold a roundtable forum to discuss FCC media 
ownership policies. A number of distinguished experts will address the fundamental questions 
surrounding media ownership limits.  In the first panel on ownership policies and competition, 
panelists will discuss a variety of issues including: the relationship between ownership limits and 
market performance; the merits of ex ante ownership limits versus case-by-case investigations; 
what product markets are relevant to FCC consideration of ownership policies; and the costs and 
benefits of different types of restrictions (horizontal caps, cross-ownership restrictions, access 
regulations).  In the second panel on diversity and localism, panelists will cover a number of 
areas including: the type of diversity that ownership policies should promote; the extent to which 
outlet diversity produces source and/or viewpoint diversity; the meaning of localism; and 
whether local ownership results in locally-oriented programming.  Attached is the roundtable 
schedule and the list of panelists. 

For additional information, contact Jonathan Levy at (202) 418-2030.





ROUNDTABLE ON MEDIA OWNERSHIP POLICIES



12:00 p.m.	Introduction and Welcome

Chairman Michael K. Powell,  Federal Communications Commission.


12:15 p.m. 	Ownership Policies and Competition

Panelists:
Stanley Besen		Charles River Associates
Mark Cooper		Consumer Federation of America
W. Robert Majure	U.S. Department of Justice
Bruce Owen		Economists Incorporated

Moderators:		James Bird  and  David Sappington,
Federal Communications Commission


2:15 p.m.	Break


2:30 p.m.	Ownership Policies, Diversity and Localism

		Panelists:
Douglas Gomery	University of Maryland
Philip Napoli		Fordham University
Joel Waldfogel	University of Pennsylvania

Moderators: 		Jonathan Levy  and  Joel Rabinovitz, 
Federal Communications Commission


4:15 p.m. 	Concluding Observations

Moderators: 		Jane Mago  and  Robert Pepper, 
Federal Communications Commission


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