The FCC needs to gather data over time through “trend analyses”...
The FCC needs to gather data over time through “trend analyses” as a “necessary prerequisite” to “be able to provide a sufficiently reasoned basis for relaxing the media ownership rules,” the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies said. A…
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Media Bureau report last month on what demographic groups own which stations lacks “reliable data dispositive of either how relaxing the Commission’s media ownership rules will favor minority and female broadcast ownership or whether relaxing the rules would not buttress existing market entry barriers,” the center said in a filing Thursday in docket 09-182 (http://xrl.us/bn6ie8). It asked for “more time for the Commission to develop a robust record on minority and female broadcast media ownership before it considers relaxing rules intended to promote diversity.” Democratic U.S. representatives and nonprofit groups opposed to consolidation have made similar requests. (See separate report above in this issue.)