BEA2014

The Honorable Richard E. Wiley – renowned communications attorney, former FCC Chairman and former head of the government-industry advisory committee that developed the digital television bstandard for the United States – joins us again at BEA2014. His conversation with Barry Umansky, former Deputy General Counsel of the NAB and now BEA’s President, will run the gamut of key legal and policy issues for the Congress, FCC regulators, communications industries and the public. Among the timely topics for the conversation are spectrum auctions, the “IP Transition,” retransmission consent, media ownership, content regulation and the relationship among the FCC, the Congress and the courts in shaping and reshaping communications law and policy.   Wiley, the recipient of the BEA Law & Policy Division’s inaugural “Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2012, also will answer questions from the audience and also join in conferring the second BEA Law and Policy Division “Lifetime Achievement Award” to Stuart Brotman.

Moderator: 

Barry Umansky,
Ball State University
Muncie, IN

Featured Guest: 

The Honorable Richard E. Wiley
Wiley Rein, LLP
Washington, DC

11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Coffee Break sponsored by the Digital Policy Institute