# Presentation: 937153

## Report 
2005-2008 

January 15, 2009

_**2005-2008**_
**January 15, 2009**

**MEDIA BUREAU**

## 
Mission Statement

   The Media Bureau develops, recommends and administers the policy and licensing programs relating to electronic media, including cable television, broadcast television, and radio in the United States and its territories. 

**Mission Statement**
-    The Media Bureau develops, recommends and administers the policy and licensing programs relating to electronic media, including cable television, broadcast television, and radio in the United States and its territories.

**MEDIA BUREAU**

## Promoting Competition Across Technology 	Platforms

Fostering Innovation Through Open Technology Platforms

**Fostering Innovation Through Open Technology Platforms**

**MEDIA BUREAU**

**Notes:**
The Commission continues to be guided by the core principles embodied in the Communications Act that consumers benefit from the promotion of competition and diversity of choice.  Increased competition results in better quality, more choices, greater innovation, and lower prices for consumers.

## MEDIA BUREAU

**Cable Rates and Consumer Price Index**  **                                           ****	****	****	****1995-2008**

## MEDIA BUREAURates for Communications Services 1995-2007

## Promoting Competition  
Video Franchise Reform

Apartment Building Access

Video Programming Competition 
Prohibition of Exclusive Contracts
Leased Access Reform
Horizontal Ownership Limit

Fostering Innovation  
Non-Proprietary Set-Top Boxes

**Video Franchise Reform**
**Apartment Building Access**
**Video Programming Competition **
**Prohibition of Exclusive Contracts**
**Leased Access Reform**
**Horizontal Ownership Limit**
**Fostering Innovation  **
**Non-Proprietary Set-Top Boxes**

**MEDIA BUREAU**

## MEDIA BUREAU

**MEDIA BUREAU**

**Status of Full- Power Stations****Transition to Digital**

**Overseeing the DTV Transition**

## Overseeing the DTV Transition
Broadcaster Preparation
New Channels and Buildout Requirements
DTV Transition Status Reporting 
Means for Full Coverage of Service Area
Policy Goals
Carriage Obligations of Cable and Satellite
Television Labeling Requirement 
DTV Consumer Education Initiative
Analog Night Light

**Broadcaster Preparation**
**New Channels and Buildout Requirements**
**DTV Transition Status Reporting **
**Means for Full Coverage of Service Area**
**Policy Goals**
**Carriage Obligations of Cable and Satellite**
**Television Labeling Requirement **
**DTV Consumer Education Initiative**
**Analog Night Light**

**MEDIA BUREAU**

## Protecting Consumers
Children’s Television
$26.1M in fines and consent decrees
Violence Report

Childhood Obesity Taskforce

A La Carte Report

**Children’s Television**
**$26.1M in fines and consent decrees**
**Violence Report**
**Childhood Obesity Taskforce**
**A La Carte Report**

**MEDIA BUREAU**

## 
Fostering Diversity and Localism
Diversity
Access to Capital Conference
Localism
Spectrum Sharing

**Fostering Diversity and Localism**
**Diversity**
**Access to Capital Conference**
**Localism**
**Spectrum Sharing**

**MEDIA BUREAU**

## MEDIA BUREAU

- Digital Audio Broadcasting

## MEDIA BUREAU

- Low Power FM Service

## WORKLOAD
67,617 Applications Disposed
216 Items Circulated to 8th Floor
193 Commission Orders Adopted
33 Meeting Agenda Items Adopted
880 NALs Issued ($5.0M Total)
7 Consent Decrees Reached ($24.2M Total)
2130 Responses to Congressional 		Inquiries

**67,617 Applications Disposed**
**216 Items Circulated to 8th Floor**
**193 Commission Orders Adopted**
**33 Meeting Agenda Items Adopted**
**880 NALs Issued ($5.0M Total)**
**7 Consent Decrees Reached ($24.2M Total)**
**2130 Responses to Congressional ****	****	****Inquiries**

**MEDIA BUREAU**