Comments are due March 14 to the FCC on whether radio and TV stat...
Comments are due March 14 to the FCC on whether radio and TV stations should have to meet with community leaders and cover local issues, as tentatively endorsed by a rulemaking notice (CD Dec 19 p1). The reply deadline…
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is April 14, a Media Bureau public notice said Friday. The comment period began last week when the notice ran in the Federal Register. Many at the commission and in industry expect the localism proceeding to rank among the most controversial areas of broadcast regulation the agency considers in 2008. Not all commissioners believe stations should face more rules, said FCC officials. The vote may be split on the final localism order if Chairman Kevin Martin decides to adopt all of the notice’s tentative conclusions, said a source. But it’s too soon to predict, because it’s unclear how Martin will proceed with a variety of potentially fractious issues brought up by the notice, said sources. Commissioner Robert McDowell in part concurred with the Dec. 18 decision to issue the notice, saying the tentative findings were a step “back in time.”