Public Hearing Agenda
August 8, 2006 - Penn State Delaware County
Senate Bill 1247 (Cable Choice and Competition Act)

Senate Republican Communications Video Footage of the Hearing

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• SEGMENT 1 – 58:48
  Introduction
  Senator Dominic Pileggi, Prime Sponsor of SB 1247
  PANEL: Statewide Municipal Associations
  John Haiko,  Chairman of Executive Board, Pennsylvania Association of Township Supervisors
  Ann Simonetti, President, Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs
  Thomas Giancristoforo, President, State Association of Township Commissioners
  Mary Wolf, Mayor of Williamsport, Pennsylvania League of Cities & Municipalities
   
• SEGMENT 2 – 1:06:50
  Haiko, Simonetti, Giancristoforo, Wolf (CONTINUED)
  PANEL: Incumbent Cable Operators
  Daniel Tunnel, President, Broadband Cable Association of Pennsylvania
  Bill Domurad, Operating Officer, Clearview CATV, Inc.
  Thomas Steel, VP & Regulatory Counsel, RCN Corporation
  David Breidinger, Divisional VP of Government & Regulatory Affairs, Comcast
  Matt Polka, President & CEO, American Cable Association
   
• SEGMENT 3 – 56:07
  Tunnel, Domurad, Steel, Breidinger, Polka (CONTINUED)
   
• SEGMENT 4 – 1:05:38
  PANEL: Telephone Companies
  David Freet, President, Pennsylvania Telephone Association
  Martin Clift, VP of Regulatory, Cavalier Telephone
  William Petersen, President, Verizon Pennsylvania
  Dave Kerr, President, TeleCommunity Connections
   
• SEGMENT 5 – 15:10
  Freet, Clift, Petersen, Kerr (CONTINUED)
   
• SEGMENT 6 – 50:50
  PANEL: Municipal Consortiums
  Daniel Cohen, Cohen Telecommunications Law Group
  John Nagel, Manager, Montgomery Township
  Samantha Reiner, Manager, Edgemont Township
   
• SEGMENT 7 – 1:06:28
  Larry Spiwak, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies, President and Chairman of the Board of Editorial Advisors
  Steven Titch, Heartland Institutes, Senior Fellow
  Tom Cohen, Fiber to the Home Council, Counsel
  PANEL: PEG Channels
  George Strimel, General Manager, Radnor Studio 21 (BIG Wireless)
  Steve Busch, Project Manager, White Rose Community Television
  Irene McNeil, Founder, Pres & CEO, Lower Merion & Narberth Public Access Television (PATV)
   
• SEGMENT 8 – 1:01:20
  Strimel, Busch, McNeil (CONTINUED)
  Stephen Pociask, American Consumer Institute, Expert and Scholar
  Kenneth Peres, Communications Workers of Americag Director, Research Economist
  David McClure, United States Internet Industry Association (USIIA), President and Chief Executive Officer
  Joseph Salvucci, Upper Darby Township, Member, Telecommunications Commission
   
• SEGMENT 9 – 41:40
  Tom Scarborough, Bucks County Association of Township Officials, President
  Joseph James, City of Philadelphia, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Public Property
  Beth McConnell, PennPIRG, Director
  Gwen Stettler, Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania, Director of Business Opportunities & Special Projects