FCC Should Change Threshold for Online Public File, NAB Says
The FCC should exempt the very smallest radio stations from online public file requirements, NAB said in a Jan. 13 meeting with an aide to Commissioner Mike O’Rielly, according to an ex parte filing in docket in 14-127. The new…
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requirement should be limited to stations with five or more employees, NAB said. The broadcast association also asked the agency to change the threshold for phasing in the new requirement. NAB proposes that “the initial online filers be commercial radio stations within the Top 50 radio markets that have 11 or more employees,” it said. The FCC previously applied that standard “in exempting certain stations from certain Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) program requirements,” NAB said.