Free Press wants FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai to travel outside the Beltway for...
Free Press wants FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai to travel outside the Beltway for workshops, meetings and hearings. The new FCC member and his colleagues should go to field hearings on the media ownership rulemaking notice, “following the good example for…
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public engagement at the commissioner level that was set during the previous quadrennial review,” the nonprofit reported officials told Pai. “Changes to the current newspaper-broadcast cross ownership ban still are not justified by the record.” The agency should “move expediently to decisions” on licensing new low-power FM stations, and “provide sufficient time for potential LPFM applicants to organize before the Commission opens a filing window,” the nonprofit that backs low-power radio said. The commission should “strike the right balance between exclusive use and unlicensed use across the spectrum,” which is a “resource” that will be brought to the market “by increasingly smart radios” more quickly than auctioning frequencies, the group said. “The Commission should foster sharing of the 1755-1850 MHz band, as well as other federal and commercial bands.” The ex parte filing was posted Friday to docket 09-182 (http://xrl.us/bnab57).