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sunday at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. a federal communications commission report found that while the numbers of media outlets has grown considerably in the digital era, there is an increasing shortage of in-depth local journalism leaded to hold government agencies, schools, and businesses accountable. the findings of the study on the impact of technology on local media were presented to sec commission members at a public meeting thursday in washington d.c. here is a portion of the presentation. >> this project was launched at the beginning of 2010 when it was clear that we were in...

>> caller: that will be interesting. no one has been talking about her leaving. no names have been floated yet, but i'm sure within days we will have plenty of people floating names out there. obviously, this is something we had a democratic seat opening up with michael copps leaving at the end of the year, and morgan, a counselor, and other names in the mix. this could be something that movings the nomination forward because there's both republican and democratic seat to fill. >> host: thank you for being on the communicators. >> caller: thank you. >> coming up next tonight, federal...

process and big mergers in the past few years they take anywhere from a year to year and a half speaking at the sec. looking at that time from we've been told by the parties we should expect an application to be filed at the sec soon next week or two and the clock starts ticking. of course congress is going to want to look at this as well and the judiciary committee as each house of congress will probably have hearings on this, so it will be heavily scrutinized. >> have you talked with at&t or t-mobile representative? >> yes, they came to my office the wednesday after the announcemen...

>> and various military activities going on. whether the issue of orphan works or having a digital library is going to even register on the current congress. they also, i think, traditionally haven't necessarily been the most willing listeners in terms of trying to change current copy right law to make it more accessible to everybody, so i think it remains to be seen what congress will, in fact, due. >> sarah weinman, we'll talk with her again after the april 25th hearing. thank you. >> thank you so much for having me. >> coming up next on c-span 2, "the communicators" talks with rob...

democratic member of the federal communications commission. >> host: we are pleased to welcome back to "the communicators," fcc commissioner michael copps. commissioner thank you for being with us. he also joining us is amy schatz of "the wall street journal." commissioner if i could start with the att, t-mobile usa acquisition. what do you see is the biggest impediment to that happening and how long do you see the process taking? >> guest: well, last part first i really don't know how long the process will take. there's some speculation it could be a better part of a year. i don't k...