There have been “technical glitches” from the recent merge of the FCC...
There have been “technical glitches” from the recent merge of the FCC Consolidated Database System (CDBS) and online public file database, NAB told agency officials. TV stations also have encountered “practical issues” as they upload paperwork from public-inspection files at…
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main studios to the agency’s website, the association said (http://bit.ly/V4WbdV) executives told Chief Bill Lake and others in the Media Bureau and an aide to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Materials in the CDBS don’t need to be uploaded by broadcasters to public files, which as of Feb. 4 must include many other existing items only kept on paper at TV station studios (CD Jan 31 p12). Broadcasters’ proposal to redo last year’s order requiring the public file go online, to exempt information on how much political campaigns paid for each ad, still is opposed by nonprofit groups, said a filing also posted to docket 00-168 this week (http://bit.ly/YoRwP3). “Without online access to the complete political file, it would be impossible to verify the accuracy of the aggregate figures” for total spending by campaign broadcasters want to report, said the Public Interest Public Airwaves Coalition. “Aggregated information is insufficient to ascertain whether stations are meeting their statutory obligations with respect to lowest unit rate” and other things, members of the coalition including the Campaign Legal Center and Free Press told some of the same FCC officials who met with NAB.