mr. genachowski at his word. but there are some other concerns i have regarding heaping more obligation on broadcasters, especially at this time. but throughout as well. the broadcast industry is really taking it on the chin right now due in part certainly to the recession. about one-third of their advertising revenue comes from car dealerships alone. and, of course, we all know the fate of car dealerships. there are more and more stations, broadcast stations in distress these days. and then there's the whole aspect of all the new media competition i sort of outlined in my opening statement. the eyeballs and ears and ad dollars are going to new media. i think we need to be mindful of that before we impose any new regulations. >> thank you. i'd like to ask you the same question that i also posed to mr. genachowski regarding the media ownership rule. the newspaper, broadcast, television station, fcc parameters and ask if you think that it is time to look at those restrictions in a new light. i said earlier that i h

mr. genachowski. >> thank you. anybody else have any questions? any other questions? mr. genachowski, thank you very, very much for your time here today and for making yourself available. i know you visited with many of us, if not all of us, privately in our offices and we appreciate that. and i also think something that others have alluded to is very true and that is this agency is extremely important and will really benefit from your leadership and your management style there. and i just think it's going to be a great era for the fcc. so thank you for your public service. and if there are no more questions, we'll excuse you and your family, if you guys would like to stay, you can, but if you'd like to leave, that's completely up to you. i will say one last thing before you leave, is that we're asking all the senators who have follow-up questions to get those to you -- or get those to us by 6:00 pm today. and that's a good sign for you 'cause that means we're going to try to expedite your confirmation as much as possible. but that means that we would ask you to turn those

mr. genachowski. [laughter] i was governor, if you remember, back in 1981, and i appointed the first person to head the consumer advocate division of the west virginia public service commission. i did not know what that was going to turn out to be. the person is still a force, and he is literally changed the face of west virginia, a single person. on a sometimes weak, sometimes strong commission. in comparison, critics have argued that the fcc has become captured by industry. not everybody says that, but critics do say that. and more of a referee of corporate disputes than of what can help the consumer, caretaker of the public. by statute, however, the purpose of the commission is to make available as much as possible to all the people of the united states of america efficient communications services within, with adequate facilities at reasonable prices. so question, i believe that the fcc should work to make sure consumers are offered the best quality service at reasonable prices, and i assume you ag

mr. genachowski at his heart. this is really what he wants to do.i agree, though, i'm not so sure we're going to be able to see it in the rulemaking process. >> host: well, you're two professionals who follow these issues, do you have trouble with the fcc web site? >> guest: i don't, but when i first started covering it, it took a little while to find some of the filings that people would be putting through. but i think it definitely could become more user-friendly, for sure. >> guest: i think 1998 called its web site back. the information's all there, but the interface could be better, and chairman genachowski talked a lot about i think he said web 2.0 at one point, another crossoff in your buzz word bingo chart, but that would be an improvement. the site has the information you need if you know how to find it. >> guest: yeah. no matter how good the site is if it doesn't have the information we're looking for, we're still going to be calling up all of the staff and asking them to tell us. >> host: well, kay bailey hutchison had played quite an act

on julius genachowski to be the new fcc chief, and joining us to talk about that this week on the communicators, andrew fine virga broadband census.org and fawn johnson of dow jones newswires. mr. feinberg, before we had reviewed the hearing itself, give us a little background on julius genachowski. >> guest: the guy has been everywhere. he is than that the fcc. he has been in the private sector on both the entertainment side. he has been a venture capitalist, actually weisser in washington with a d.c.-based start of incubator and he served-- sort have been a tech and city terry to the obama campaign all the way through. he is on the advisory committee, and now he is probably going to be our next sec chairman, barring anything horrible or strange. >> host: phone johnson, given his background what we know about him now and where do you think he will take the fcc? >> guest: we know he is passionate about the internet and this comes from the obama presidential campaign. he was one of the early supporters of obama. he was actually when the first to bring the telecom community around him in supporting him. he brought people in who have never given money to a presidential candidate