Panelists Named For FCC Tampa Meeting

The FCC adds names to the scheduled panel for its open meeting on the ownership rules MONDAY (4/30) in TAMPA, with radio getting a small amount of representation on the panels.

The Market Overview panel will feature MEDIA GENERAL's DAN BRADLEY, WFTS-TV/TAMPA GM and FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS Incoming President BILL CAREY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA Professor ROBERT DARDENNE, HOMETOWN NEWS President STEVE ERLANGER, ZGS BROADCAST HOLDINGS' RONALD GORDON, blogger JIM JOHNSON, NYU Professor and author ERIC KLINENBERG, LA GACETA publisher PATRICK MANTEIGA, FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS President PAT ROBERTS, HALL COMMUNICATIONS Pres. ART ROWBOTHAM, and WXYZ-TV/DETROIT investigative reporter STEVE WILSON. 

The second panel on media ownership will include COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS union head GERARDO REYES-CHAVEZ, TAMA BROADCASTING's GLENN CHERRY, COX RADIO/TAMPA's ROSWELL CLARKE, CHRISTIAN TELEVISION NETWORK (WCTS-TV/TAMPA)'s BOB D'ANDREA, the POYNTER INSTITUTE's Dr. KAREN BROWN DUNLAP, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL Publisher BOB GREMILLION, the WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER's CAROL JENKINS, WIRA-A & WFLM/PORT ST. LUCIE, FL owner LARRY LEE, JR., the HISPANIC ALLIANCE OF TAMPA BAY's LUIS LOPEZ, the SCREEN ACTORS GUILD's CARLINA RODRIGUEZ, WTSP-TV/ST. PETERSBURG Pres./GM SAM ROSENWASSER, and the FLORIDA AFL-CIO's RICH TEMPLIN.

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