DirecTV CEO wants more transparency in tax talks TV program

NEW YORK-the FCC is scheduled to start the process towards the retransmission consent reform possible in a meeting Thursday, but DirecTV CEO Mike White does not expect radical changes from the governmental agency.

Amid tax showdown between broadcasters and programming heated TV distributors last year, for example a cable operator Cablevision and News Corp/Fox that led to the temporary loss of signal in Cablevision, some families have called for new powers for the FCC in these battles.

The meeting opened Thursday, the FCC will consider a so-called "notice of proposed rulemaking for emissions that will try to comment on possible reforms to the current rules of retransmission.

Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, reiterated that the best that the Agency can probably do is to add transparency to the process.

"I'd like to see" cannot take the dark "and arbitration and all those things," said investors. But "virtually speaking" results will be less radical.

"If the FCC wanted to work on something that would be [to] find a way to create more transparency around what the market is," he argued.

White said that there is currently no transparency at all. "There is no price discovery mechanism in this market," he said, which leads to companies looking for any other game. "This is not a free market. Don't kid yourself. "

He did not mention specific proposals to increase transparency.

If White warned against expectations of major changes that would shake up the status of things. "The FCC will make some movement, but frankly I do not expect what are likely to come up with will make no difference in the short run," he said.

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Hailee Steinfeld in talks to "The hunger games"

While on the red carpet Best Supporting Actress nominee Hailee Steinfeld a minute has to talk to MTV cameras and confirm the rumor, to play you in the talks for the lead the upcoming adaptation of Suzanne Collins is young adult novel written in the hunger games. Steinfeld, said that with the premiere of the film director Gary Ross and that has made, "It is definitely something that we are one day at a time and ensure that everything is present."

Other names have been linked to the role are Kaya Scodelario, Chloe Moretz, Malese Jow and Lyndsy Fonseca. Production is planned to start in a few months, so it should be not much of a wait to see whether Steinfeld's Oscar exposure has abandoned her leg on the competition.

If required I go details of young literature always the same source: my bartender. How predictably, you had read the "hunger games trilogy", and gave me a brief description. It tells the story of a post-apocalyptic America, now called will panem, under the control of a kind of evil regime. Once in the year, a boy and a girl from each district fight have the powers, the be up to the tournament televised assigned to death in one. Steinfeld would play Katniss Everdeen, a selfless and resourceful sixteen year of the volunteer to old younger sister of the tournament take place. In the course of the book you your way through the games, shows some true grit, and manages to spark up a dramatic romance with one of the male candidates. I am sure that this trilogy of the best young adults out there are series. So each start looking forward to the film. Steinfeld is back, and it is harsher than ever before!

Source: Hollywood crush

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