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 NEWS  News  media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  TTY  202  /  418-  2555  Fax-  On-  Demand  202  /  418-  2830  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  ftp.  fcc.  gov  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  Street,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  This  is  an  unofficial  announcement  of  Commission  action.  Release  of  the  full  text  of  a  Commission  order  constitutes  official  action.  See  MCI  v.  FCC.  515  F  2d  385  (D.  C.  Circ  1974). 
 September  29,  2000 
 FCC  Calendar  of  Events 
 Tuesday,  October  3 
 Commissioner  Harold  Furchtgott-  Roth  will  address  the  KMB  Video 
 Journal’s  Twenty  Sixth  Invitational  Conference  at  the  Don  CeSar  Conference 
 Center,  St.  Petersburg,  FL,  7:  00  pm. 


 Wednesday,  October  4 
 Commissioner  Gloria  Tristani  will  address  the  Caribbean 
 Telecommunications  Council’s  16  th  Annual  Convention  entitled,  “TELECOM 
 2000  .  .  .  Ready  for  the  Present  Future,”  Condado  Plaza  Hotel  &  Casino,  San 
 Juan,  PR,  9:  15  am. 


 Thursday,  October  5 
 Chairman  William  E.  Kennard  will  address  the  ITA/  CICS/  USMSS 
 Private  Wireless  Spectrum  Management  Conference,  Grand  Hyatt, 
 Washington,  DC,  8:  00  am. 


 Commissioner  Furchtgott-  Roth  will  deliver  the  keynote  address  before 
 the  American  Law  Institute  –  American  Bar  Association’s  New  Advanced 
 ALI-  ABA  Course  of  Study  for  Plaintiffs’  and  Defendants’  Bars  and  In-  House 
 Counsel  on  “The  Communications  Marketplace  –  Antitrust  and  Regulatory 
 Issues,”  the  Hyatt  Regency  Hotel,  Washington,  DC,  9:  15  am. 


 Tom  Sugrue,  Chief,  WTB  will  speak  at  the  ITA/  CICS/  USMSS  Private 
 Wireless  Spectrum  Management  Conference  and  Exposition,  the  Grand  Hyatt, 
 Washington,  DC,  8:  00  am. 
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 J.  Wright,  General  Counsel  will  be  a  speaker  on  a  panel, 
 “Telecom  Mergers  and  Acquisitions:  Regulatory  and  Antitrust  Aspects,”  at  the 
 ALI-  ABA  Seminar,  “Antitrust  and  Regulatory  Issues  in  the  Communications 
 Marketplace,”  Washington,  DC,  4:  00  pm. 


 Friday,  October  6 
 Commissioner  Furchtgott-  Roth  will  address  the  Tennessee  Association 
 of  Broadcasters’  53  rd  Annual  Convention  at  the  Regal  Maxwell  House, 
 Nashville,  TN,  8:  00  am. 


 Tuesday,  October  10 
 Chairman  Kennard  will  address  the  Museum  of  Television  and  Radio 
 Broadcasting  on  broadcasters’  public  interest  obligations,  New  York,  NY, 
 10:  00  am. 


 Wednesday,  October  11 
 The  FCC  will  host  a  forum  for  Hispanic  Consumers  at  the  FCC,  Portals 
 II,  Commission  Meeting  Room,  Room  TW-  C305,  445  12  th  Street,  SW, 
 Washington,  DC,  1:  00  pm  –  3:  30  pm. 


 Thursday,  October  12 
 The  FCC  will  hold  a  Commission  Meeting  at  the  FCC,  Portals  II,  445 
 12  th  Street,  SW,  Washington,  DC,  9:  30  am. 


 Christopher  J.  Wright,  General  Counsel  will  participate  on  a  panel,  “The 
 ‘Last  Mile’  in  FCC  Practice:  The  Path  from  the  Agency  to  the  Courthouse, 
 and  the  Procedural  Hurdles  Along  the  Way,”  at  the  American  Bar  Association 
 Section  of  Administrative  Law  and  Regulatory  Practice  2000  Administrative 
 Law  Conference,  Westin  Fairfax  Hotel,  Washington,  DC,  2:  30  pm  –  4:  30  pm. 
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 November  9 
 The  FCC  will  hold  a  Commission  Meeting  at  the  FCC,  Portals  II,  445 
 12  th  Street,  SW,  Washington,  DC,  9:  30  am. 


 Thursday,  December  14 
 Tom  Sugrue,  Chief,  WTB  will  speak  at  the  Practicing  Law  Institute’s 
 18  th  Annual  Institute  on  Telecommunications  Policy  and  Regulation,  at  the 
 Washington  Hilton,  Washington,  DC,  1:  35  pm. 


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