FCC figures show “the number of Latino-owned media outlets is dismal,”...
FCC figures show “the number of Latino-owned media outlets is dismal,” the National Hispanic Media Coalition said Friday. Two days earlier, a Media Bureau report (http://xrl.us/bnz2v7) said that Hispanics as of Oct. 1, 2011, controlled 513 U.S. stations. They included…
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39 full-power TV stations, or 2.9 percent of the total; 172 AMs, 4.5 percent of the total; and 151 FMs, or 2.7 percent of all. Latinos comprise 16 percent of the country’s population, the coalition said. The data’s “a day late and a dollar short,” Vice President of Policy & Legal Affairs Jessica Gonzalez said in a news release. It’s “deplorable” the commission now has circulating for a vote a draft order that would deregulate some media ownership rules, she said.