That the FCC Media Bureau issued waiver procedures...
That the FCC Media Bureau issued waiver procedures for noncommercial educational stations to raise money for cleanup of Monday’s tornado in Oklahoma (CD May 23 p16) shows it’s past time to allow without waivers third-party fundraising by NCEs, a supporter…
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of an NPRM proposing that rule change told us. With the comment cycle on the notice ended in August and no order yet, “non-com stations want to serve the public and the charitable sector in this way, and 501(c)(3) non-profit groups want to expand their ability to serve communities,” said National Religious Broadcasters General Counsel Craig Parshall by email Wednesday. “We shouldn’t have to wait for another catastrophe in the headlines before we energize the dynamic partnership that can occur between non-commercial stations and 501(c)(3) non-profit charities.” Also Wednesday, Parshall and another NRB executive told FCC Chief of Staff Dave Grimaldi that the association supports such fundraising, said a filing posted Thursday to docket 12-106 (http://bit.ly/188HCup). It said “any NCE station that does not receive Corporation for Public Broadcasting” grants should be able to air such fundraisers “for third-party non-profit organizations up to 1 percent of the station’s annual on-air time."