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DTV STAFF DISCUSSION DRAFT OF THE DTV TRANSITION ACT OF 2005 HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE INTERNET OF THE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION MAY 26, 2005 Serial No. 109–28 Printed for the use of the Committee on Energy and Commerce ( Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/house U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 21–643PDF WASHINGTON : 2005 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2250 Mail: Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 11:52 Sep 21, 2005 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 21643.TXT HCOM1 PsN: HCOM1 COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE JOE BARTON, Texas, Chairman RALPH M. HALL, Texas JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan MICHAEL BILIRAKIS, Florida Ranking Member Vice Chairman HENRY A. WAXMAN, California FRED UPTON, Michigan EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts CLIFF STEARNS, Florida RICK BOUCHER, Virginia PAUL E. GILLMOR, Ohio EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York NATHAN DEAL, Georgia FRANK PALLONE, Jr., New Jersey ED WHITFIELD, Kentucky SHERROD BROWN, Ohio CHARLIE NORWOOD, Georgia BART GORDON, Tennessee BARBARA CUBIN, Wyoming BOBBY L. RUSH, Illinois JOHN SHIMKUS, Illinois ANNA G. ESHOO, California HEATHER WILSON, New Mexico BART STUPAK, Michigan JOHN B. SHADEGG, Arizona ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York CHARLES W. ‘‘CHIP’’ PICKERING, ALBERT R. WYNN, Maryland Mississippi, Vice Chairman GENE GREEN, Texas VITO FOSSELLA, New York TED STRICKLAND, Ohio ROY BLUNT, Missouri DIANA DEGETTE, Colorado STEVE BUYER, Indiana LOIS CAPPS, California GEORGE RADANOVICH, California MIKE DOYLE, Pennsylvania CHARLES F. BASS, New Hampshire TOM ALLEN, Maine JOSEPH R. PITTS, Pennsylvania JIM DAVIS, Florida MARY BONO, California JAN SCHAKOWSKY, Illinois GREG WALDEN, Oregon HILDA L. SOLIS, California LEE TERRY, Nebraska CHARLES A. GONZALEZ, Texas MIKE FERGUSON, New Jersey JAY INSLEE, Washington MIKE ROGERS, Michigan TAMMY BALDWIN, Wisconsin C.L. ‘‘BUTCH’’ OTTER, Idaho MIKE ROSS, Arkansas SUE MYRICK, North Carolina JOHN SULLIVAN, Oklahoma TIM MURPHY, Pennsylvania MICHAEL C. BURGESS, Texas MARSHA BLACKBURN, Tennessee BUD ALBRIGHT, Staff Director DAVID CAVICKE, Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel REID P.F. STUNTZ, Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE INTERNET FRED UPTON, Michigan, Chairman MICHAEL BILIRAKIS, Florida EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts CLIFF STEARNS, Florida Ranking Member PAUL E. GILLMOR, Ohio ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York ED WHITFIELD, Kentucky ALBERT R. WYNN, Maryland BARBARA CUBIN, Wyoming MIKE DOYLE, Pennsylvania JOHN SHIMKUS, Illinois CHARLES A. GONZALEZ, Texas HEATHER WILSON, New Mexico JAY INSLEE, Washington CHARLES W. ‘‘CHIP’’ PICKERING, RICK BOUCHER, Virginia Mississippi EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York VITO FOSSELLA, New York FRANK PALLONE, Jr., New Jersey GEORGE RADANOVICH, California SHERROD BROWN, Ohio CHARLES F. BASS, New Hampshire BART GORDON, Tennessee GREG WALDEN, Oregon BOBBY L. RUSH, Illinois LEE TERRY, Nebraska ANNA G. ESHOO, California MIKE FERGUSON, New Jersey BART STUPAK, Michigan JOHN SULLIVAN, Oklahoma JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan, MARSHA BLACKBURN, Tennessee (Ex Officio) JOE BARTON, Texas, (Ex Officio) (II) VerDate 11-MAY-2000 11:52 Sep 21, 2005 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6011 Sfmt 0486 21643.TXT HCOM1 PsN: HCOM1 C O N T E N T S Page Testimony of: Abud, Manuel, Vice President and General Manager, Telemundo Los Angeles ........................................................................................................... 73 Chessen, Rick, Chair, DTV Task Force, Federal Communications Com- mission ........................................................................................................... 23 Goldstein, Mark L., Director, Physical Infrastructure Team, Government Accountability Office ..................................................................................... 27 Kimmelman, Gene, Senior Director of Public Policy, Consumers Union ..... 95 Knorr, Patrick, Vice Chairman, Sunflower Broadband, on behalf of Amer- ican Cable Association .................................................................................. 83 McCollough, W. Alan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Circuit City Stores, Inc., on behalf of Consumer Electronics Retailers Coalition 76 McSlarrow, Kyle E., President and Chief Executive Officer, National Cable and Telecommunications Association ............................................... 68 Pitsch, Peter K., Communications Policy Director, Intel Government Af- fairs ................................................................................................................ 102 Shapiro, Gary J., President and Chief Exectuive Officer, Consumer Elec- tronics Association ........................................................................................ 45 Souder, Steve, Director, Montgomery County, Maryland 911 Emergency Communications Center ............................................................................... 92 Yager, K. James, Chief Executive Officer, Barrington Broadcasting Com- pany, LLC, on behalf of National Association of Broadcasters ................. 51 Material submitted for the record by: Aloha Partners, letter dated April 27, 2005, to Hon. Joe Barton, Hon. John D. Dingell, Hon. Fred Upton, and Hon. Edward J. Markey ............ 157 APCO et al., letter dated May 25, 2005, to Hon. Joe Barton, Hon. John D. Dingell, Hon. Fred Upton, and Hon. Edward J. Markey ...................... 164 Bazelon, Colemen, Vice President, Analysis Group, paper submitted by .... 145 Brattle Group, letter dated May 18, 2005, to Hon. Joe Barton, Hon. John D. Dingell, Hon. Fred Upton, and Hon. Edward J. Markey ............ 165 Cox, Hon. Christopher, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, letter dated May 24, 2005, to Hon. Joe Barton ................... 184 Chessen, Rick, Chair, DTV Task Force, Federal Communications Com- mission, response for the record .................................................................. 140 EchoStar Communications Corporation, prepared statement of .................. 138 Flanigan, Matthew J., President, Telecommunications Industry Associa- tion, letter dated May 24, 2005, to Hon. Joe Barton ................................. 226 High Tech DTV Coalition, prepared statement of ......................................... 215 Largent, Steve, President, CTIA, letter dated May 26, 2005, to Hon. Joe Barton ..................................................................................................... 214 National Troopers Coalition, letter dated September 12, 2005, to Hon. Joe Barton ..................................................................................................... 227 Public Knowledge, prepared statement of ...................................................... 218 Shapiro, Gary J., President and Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Elec- tronics Association, letter dated May 6, 2005, to Hon. Joe Barton .......... 177 Walt Disney Company, material for the record ............................................. 186 (III) VerDate 11-MAY-2000 11:52 Sep 21, 2005 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0486 Sfmt 0486 21643.TXT HCOM1 PsN: HCOM1 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 11:52 Sep 21, 2005 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0486 Sfmt 0486 21643.TXT HCOM1 PsN: HCOM1 DTV STAFF DISCUSSION DRAFT OF THE DTV TRANSITION ACT OF 2005 THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2005 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE INTERNET, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 11:40 a.m., in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Fred Upton (chairman) presiding. Members present: Representatives Upton, Stearns, Gillmor, Cubin, Shimkus, Pickering, Fossella, Radanovich, Bass, Walden, Terry, Ferguson, Sullivan, Blackburn, Barton (ex officio), Markey, Engel, Wynn, Gonzalez, Inslee, Boucher, Towns, Gordon, Rush, Eshoo, Stupak, and Dingell (ex officio). Staff present: Howard Waltzman, chief counsel, telecommuni- cations and the interet; Neil Fried, majority counsel; Kelly Cole, majority counsel; Will Norwind, policy coordinator; Jaylyn Jensen, senior legislative analyst; Anh Nguyen, legislative clerk; Johanna Shelton, minority counsel; Peter Filon, minority counsel; Turney Hall, staff assistant; and Alec Gerlach, staff assistant. Mr. UPTON. I will note that a good number of my colleagues cer- tainly on this subcommittee and the entire Congress are very inter- ested in this hearing today, and we are in the middle of votes, and we are going to start now, just because I expect that this hearing will take a number of hours, and so we will get members as they come in for their opening statements before we start the hearing. But in an effort to be out of here by tomorrow, we will start today. And I appreciate all of those that have been waiting since yester- day to get into the room, as well. Some were lamenting the fact that there is a prohibition on earned income, and I guess line sit- ters would fit that test, as we have seen the last number of hours. Good morning. Today, we are, in fact, examining a staff discus- sion draft of the Digital Transition Act of 2005, and if the only goal of the staff discussion draft was simply to promote discussion, then based on the number of witnesses in attendance at today’s hearing, I would say that the staff has certainly succeeded. But of course,