The FCC has been considering digital-TV public interest rules sin...
The FCC has been considering digital-TV public interest rules since 1995, a year longer than it’s been engaged in media cross-ownership proceedings, the Benton Foundation and Campaign Legal Center wrote Commissioner Robert McDowell Tuesday. Monday, McDowell asked if anyone…
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knew of an agency proceeding that’s taken longer than the cross-ownership review and its various incarnations (CD Nov 20 p1). The commission should finish the public interest proceeding before acting on Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposal that the FCC partly lift a 32-year ban on cross-ownership in the largest 20 markets, wrote Benton Chairman Charles Benton and Campaign Legal Center Policy Director Meredith McGehee. TV stations already must serve community education, information, civic and minority needs, they wrote. “Further guidance from the FCC is necessary to clarify how these public interest obligations apply to DTV broadcasters and to answer outstanding questions raised by the increased technological capabilities of the digital medium.”