NEWS                                                      
October 27, 1994

      CHAIRMAN HUNDT URGES CONNECTICUT BROADCASTERS TO
DISSEMINATE
                            FACTS TO EVERYONE

     Characterizing broadcast TV and radio as "long on opinions,
but short on facts,"  FCC
Chairman Reed Hundt urged his audience of Connecticut
broadcasters to gather the facts and
disseminate them to their audiences, including children,
minorities and non-English speakers.

     Noting that most print publishers adhere to numerous
practices to promote truth and
accuracy in their publications, the Chairman asked, "Since the
reality is that broadcasters deliver
the news to more Americans that print publishers do, why isn't it
time for broadcasters to adopt
similar practices?"

     He noted that, in the face of auctioning of spectrum space,
which in the current
narrowband auction is going at $3.00 per pop per megahertz, the
public will be asking more and
more what it is that broadcasters are giving back to the public
that justifies the fact that they get
their licenses for nothing. 

     Chairman Hundt urged the broadcasters to redefine their
social compact with their
audiences, predicting "big challenges but greater opportunities
for success."  "You'll have
regulators demanding less while customers are demanding more."

     The Chairman discussed some recent and upcoming developments
at the Commission and
noted that many of the recent actions were reviewed "in light of
relevant economic and antitrust
principles.  To a degree, this is a new approach."

     Also being stressed at the FCC is improving customer service
so that it is "equal to the
best in  business."   He pointed out that earlier this year the
FCC began making public notices
and Commission documents available on the Internet.  "Now, 4,000
FCC documents are
downloaded by the public over the Internet each week."

     "Ultimately, we hope to establish what one could call a
'virtual public reference room,"
where people have full, cheap, easy remote access to Commission
decisions and parties'
pleadings."

     Chairman Hundt closed by noting, "I'm in this for the public
service of the job and you
are a key part of the FCC's public.   So tell us how to redefine
our job, how to simplify your
life, and how to serve you better."

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