Former FCC Chairman Doubts PRA Passes This Year

Despite the full head of steam the Performance Rights Act has seemingly picked up on Capitol Hill this year, Dick Wiley doubts that it will get pushed into law in 2009.

Wiley, a former Federal Communications Commission chairman and the uber-inside of Washington communications legal eagles, on Wednesday afternoon (May 20) was giving nearly 80 attendees of BIA’s inaugural “Winning Media Strategies” conference an update on the goings-on in the Federal City.

Wiley predicted legislators will be too busy with other matters of national scope, including getting FCC chairman nominee Julius Genachowski and fellow would-be commissioner Mignon Clyburn, also a Democrat pick nominated by President Obama, through the approval process.

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