Don't Relax Broadcast Ownership Rules, Leadership Conference Lobbies FCC
The FCC shouldn’t raise the national TV ownership cap and or relax local TV ownership rules without studying the impact on race and gender ownership diversity, said the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and several diversity and anti-consolidation…
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groups in a meeting Friday with an aide to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, per a filing Wednesday in docket 09-182. The groups, which included the United Church of Christ Communications Office, Communications Workers of America and Common Cause, praised Rosenworcel’s support of the Lifeline program, and expressed support for previous FCC efforts to cap prison phone rates. The groups said they support "legislation to return authority to the FCC to continue that effort.”