WASHINGTON—September 5: The FCC announced back in July that it would be holding a field hearing on media ownership in Chicago, and now it's set the date and location: The hearing will be held on September 20 at Operation Push National Headquarters on East 50th Street, from 4-11 p.m.
The hearing is the fifth in a series of six media-ownership hearings the FCC is holding as part of the 2006 Quadrennial Broadcast Media Ownership Review; earlier hearings were held in Los Angeles, Nashville, Harrisburg, and Tampa. More details, including scheduled panelists, will be released before the hearing date.