The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council has given...
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council has given the FCC additional information about the respondents in its study of the impacts of cross-ownership on minority and women media owners at the commission’s request, MMTC President David Honig told us Friday.…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
The commission asked for more information about the sampling methodology used, the stations and owners surveyed, and about the peer reviewing process for the study, which came under fire from Free Press earlier this week (CD July 24 p8). The peer reviewing process was done through two conference calls with the three peer reviewers, which took place during the design phase of the study and before final publication, Honig said. Free Press had asked to see written peer reviews in their filed comments on the study. “They had questions about [the study] but at the end of the day we agreed that the study was useful,” Honig said of the peer review process. Most of the information requested by the commission has been submitted (http://bit.ly/13ieRnv) and specific information about the identities of the respondents and the station call letters will be submitted under a protective order, to preserve anonymity, Honig said. The Media Bureau issued the protective order Friday. The MMTC will soon be releasing an erratum that will correct some non-material errors in the study and discuss the peer review process, Honig said.