The FCC will soon unveil more unpublished broadcast ownership doc...
The FCC will soon unveil more unpublished broadcast ownership documents, media activists told us late Fri. The Commission granted a Freedom of Information Act request for the information on local radio content made by Georgetown U.’s Institute for Public…
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Representation, said Prof. Angela Campbell, who made the inquiry Aug. 10: “They are going to make the information available to us… We have not received anything from them yet.” Lawmakers and the public will get the data simultaneously with its disclosure to Campbell’s group, said Media Access Project Pres. Andrew Schwartzman. “Obviously there is interest broader than just us,” he said: “It smells like there is a lot” of information, though the Commission hasn’t set a timeframe for disclosing it or described what’s in it. The cost for research has been pegged at more than $300,000 by current and former FCC staffers (CD Sept 20 p1). Chmn. Martin’s office was involved in the decision to release the documents, we're told. An FCC official declined comment. - JM