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2024 Former FCC Chairs’ Symposium

On July 17, 2024, MMTC held its 6th Annual Former FCC Chairs’ Symposium. Watch the video below.

Speakers and moderators included:

  • FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, keynote speaker
  • Former FCC Chair Richard Wiley
  • Former FCC Chair Reed Hundt
  • Former FCC Chair Michael Copps
  • Former FCC Chair Mignon Clyburn
  • Former FCC Chair Ajit Pai
  • Former FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate, moderator
  • Former FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, moderator
  • MMTC President Robert Branson, moderator
  • MMTC Board Chair and Treasurer Ronald Johnson

They discussed a return to civility at the FCC and in Washington, the impact of the recent Supreme Court opinion
on the Chevron doctrine, ACP and Lifeline, ATSC 3.0, bulk billing universal broadband, artificial intelligence, Section 230,
M&A policy, and minority media and telecom ownership.

Sue Webley, founder of Kara Solutions, produced and hosted the Symposium.

Click the buttons below to read the speaker/moderator bios and Cablefax article.

Special thanks to our attendees, speakers, and sponsors for their support (see list below).

Gold Sponsors

• AT&T
• Charter Communications
• Comcast
• CTIA
• Microsoft
• NCTA – Internet & Television Association
• T-Mobile
• USTelecom
• Verizon

Sustaining Sponsors

• Geo Broadcast Solutions and Roberts Broadcasting Company
• iHeartMedia
• Lerman Senter, LLC
• 2042 Media [formerly Condista]

General Sponsors

• Asian American Broadcasting
• Bustos Media Holdings
• Maurita Coley
• Covington & Burling
• Davis Wright Tremaine
• DirectTV
• Free State Foundation
• Grodsky, Caporrino & Kaufman, LLP
• Kelsay Strategies
• Erwin Krasnow
• Nicolaine Lazarre
• MassLocal
• Mays Foundation
• Motion Picture Association
• Perkins Coie
• The Walt Disney Company
• Wiley Rein, LLC
• Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP