FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
June 14,2012
JULIUS GENACHOWSKI
CHAIRMAN
The Honorable Anna G. Eshoo
Ranking Member
Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
Committee on Energy and Commerce
U.S. House of Representatives
2322A Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Congresswoman Eshoo:
Thank you for your letter supporting the Commission's efforts to require television
broadcasters to post their public files online - including their political files. Your letter will be
included in the record of the proceeding.
Congress has mandated through the ommunications Act that broadcasters have unique
public interest obligations, including the public availability ofa broadcast station's political file.
The Commission recently acted to ensure that television broadcasters' public files, including the
political liles, be accessible not just in hard-to-acce s physical filing cabinets, but online. This
requirement not only promotes transparency and accessibility. but based on the record in this
proceeding will result in long-term efficiencies and cost savings for broadcasters. I am pleased
that the Commission took this important action to modernize its public file procedures in order to
make this important information more accessible to the public.
I appreciate your interest in this matter. Please let me kno\\ if I can be of any further
assistance.
Sincerely,
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Julius Genachowski
445 121>< STREET S.W. WASHINGTON. D.C. 20554 • 202-4 I 8-1000