It would take estimated 1,000 hours to scan one station’s public ...
It would take estimated 1,000 hours to scan one station’s public inspection files so they could be placed on Web, according to FCC filing by STC Bcstg., which owns 11 stations. Responding to Commission rulemaking on public interest obligations…
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(MM 00- 168), STC also said it would cost at least $8,000 to create Web site and $125 extra per month to store that much information on server. Public benefits of that spending would be “trivial,” STC said. State broadcast associations, in joint filing in rulemaking (CD Feb 20 p4), agreed benefits would be minimal and repeated charge that proposed new standardized form would violate Administrative Procedure Act as well as First Amendment. Broadcasters said there was “no evidence that broadcasters are not meeting” their public interest obligations already.