The FCC requested a copy of all Baltimore TV stations’ public-inspection...
The FCC requested a copy of all Baltimore TV stations’ public-inspection files (CD April 2 p13), the Media Bureau said Friday. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski that day circulated for a vote a bureau order to make all U.S. TV broadcasters…
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post online most of their public and political-ad files. The biggest public file among the eight Baltimore stations was that of WJZ, with 8,222 pages, the bureau said in a “submission for the record” in docket 00-168 (http://xrl.us/bm27ey). About half that was the political file, and of the entire file, 938 pages are at fcc.gov. Letters and emails took up about 2,000 pages apiece in the public files of WJZ, WBFF -- which had the second-biggest public file overall in the market at 8,116 pages -- and at No. 3-ranked WBAL. A rulemaking proposed to exclude such material. Maryland Public TV’s WMPT and WMPB each had 2,180 public-file pages, excluding what the commission has online. Free Press expects broadcasters to be “lobbying hard to weaken” the draft order before it’s voted on at the April 27 FCC meeting (CD April 9 p5), Senior Policy Counsel Corie Wright said Monday. “We're very concerned by reports that the FCC is considering excluding many stations and markets from these requirements,” she said of phased-in rules which initially would only apply to Big-Four broadcast network affiliates in top markets.