An FCC staff decision denying NAB’s petition to stay online public-file rules (CD July...
An FCC staff decision denying NAB’s petition to stay online public-file rules (CD July 13 p6) had a twist that the president of a think tank that often opposes regulation found ironic. “The FCC denied the broadcasters['] own proposal because…
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the Commission was concerned that it would be too burdensome on them,” Patrick Maines wrote Friday on the Media Institute’s blog (http://xrl.us/bngrgq). That’s “surely the first time in recent memory that the FCC has been moved to action out of concern for broadcasters’ welfare,” he continued. Maines cited the Media Bureau order saying that keeping both paper public files in TV stations’ main studios and uploading to fcc.gov new data on some but not all information contained in those documents’ political files would be more burdensome than online-only posting.