Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digial Television Broadcasters

January 16, 1998

Mt. Vernon Salon of the Madison Hotel
15th and M Streets, NW
Washington, DC


Friday, January 16

PRELIMINARY AGENDA*
8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks
Leslie Moonves, President, CBS Television
Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute
8:45 a.m. PANEL: The Technology of Digital Broadcasting and the Implications for New Programming Services
Committee Discussion
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Briefing on Closed Captioning and Video Description of Broadcast Programming
11:45 a.m. Break
12:00 p.m. Lunch Break
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. Reconvene
PANEL: Educational Programming in the Digital Era
Committee Discussion
3:45 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Public Comment, Questions and Answers
4:30 p.m. Committee Discussion of Future Agenda
5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
Norman Ornstein; Leslie Moonves
5:15 p.m. Adjourn
*As of January 5, 1998