Analyses of FCC broadcast ownership data should be performed before...
Analyses of FCC broadcast ownership data should be performed before the commission moves forward with adopting new ownership rules, said a group representing free community newspapers in response to agency’s recent ownership report. “However troubling the data in the Ownership…
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Report, it cannot be treated as another footnote, exhibit or de minimis item checked off the to-do list for the current rulemaking,” the Association of Free Community Papers and the Mid-Atlantic Community Papers Association said (http://xrl.us/bn9eoy). To start, the commission could list all the broadcast or newspaper entities the commission would deem “combination eligible” under the proposed rules, they said. “A further step would be to publish Commission analysis on projected Spectrum Auction participation, license transfer and subsequent market-specific valuations,” they said. “We respectfully request that the Commission abandon any plans to issue Final Rules in the absence of aforementioned analysis and the rightful opportunity to comment on same."