NPR cautioned against using data from Form 323-E ownership reports...
NPR cautioned against using data from Form 323-E ownership reports to measure minority and female broadcast ownership. Public radio stations and their commercial counterparts aren’t “owned” in the same way, it said in an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bodw2v) about a…
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meeting with NPR executives, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai and his staff. NPR said it’s concerned about an FCC proposal requiring broadcast licensees to report Social Security numbers of attributable owners on Form 323 (CD Oct 24 p2). Public radio stations are licensed to nonprofit organizations, state and local governments and public and private educational institutions and station board members “who are deemed to have an ‘attributable interest’ in the station[,] are unpaid volunteers and have no equity or other financial interest in the station,” it said in docket 07-294. Stations can’t compel these members to submit such information to the FCC, it said. These volunteers “will simply refuse to serve on public radio governing boards if stations tried,” it said: “Threatening to sanction stations for failing to obtain a volunteer board member’s Social Security Number only makes the matter worse."