MMTC Says Rules Kept Minorities Out of Broadcasting, in Early QR Comments
Initial comments on the FCC 2018 quadrennial review order were due Monday in docket 18-349. Those filed early show broadcasters and interest groups largely holding to their positions. The Multicultural Media Telecom and Internet Council said "failure to remedy the…
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lingering effects of its past history” kept minorities almost entirely out of broadcasting for 50 years. Connoisseur Media called again for the FCC to eliminate rules on broadcasters in embedded markets (see 1710100057). Crawford Broadcasting argued that FCC proposals to relax AM/FM subcaps could “have an unanticipated detrimental effect on the industry and on the values of AM stations in particular.” Crawford owns 15 AM stations and 9 FM stations. MMTC defended its proposal to apply cable procurement diversity rules to broadcasting (see 1811200048), calling the Office of Economics and Analytics the “ideal” entity to create an innovative way to measure diversity. “The rudimentary methodology the Commission uses to measure competition and diversity is little more than ‘station counting," MMTC said.