NTCA has its eye on Congress in 2014,...
NTCA has its eye on Congress in 2014, CEO Shirley Bloomfield said in two blog posts this week. “For Congress, I see a renewed strategic approach, given the current issues on the table, pending elections and a possible rewrite of…
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the Communications Act,” she said in one post (http://bit.ly/1g3S9rZ). “It is likely time to move from our grassroots Swing State strategy to a renewed Farm Team effort, giving me deja vu thinking back on hundreds of hours I spent with the ‘Farm Team’ in the early 80s leading up to the 1996 Telecom Act Rewrite (did I just date myself?), and a renewed effort with members to understand the importance of TECO,” its political action committee, the Telecommunications Education Committee Organization. In another post (http://bit.ly/1lD30uf), Bloomfield described receiving a card from House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif. The note thanked NTCA for backing HR-3719, the Video Choice Act, which Eshoo had introduced in December. “She expressed her hopes for a vibrant video marketplace in the future -- one where there is healthy competition, consumer choice and basic protections for consumers and one that adapts to a 21st century video reality,” Bloomfield said. “We hope for the very same thing, and that also includes dealing with retransmission consent agreements and real efforts to ensure affordable access to programming.” More than 80 percent of NTCA’s membership has “some video interests,” Bloomfield said.