A law firm with radio and TV clients again asked the FCC to rever...
A law firm with radio and TV clients again asked the FCC to reverse course on a media ownership form’s requirement that filers use commission registration numbers whose disclosure has raised privacy concerns among broadcasters (CD Nov 20 p7).…
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“In their apparent, and as yet unexplained, rush to adopt changes to the Form 323, the Commission has failed to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act,” said a late Monday petition for reconsideration by Fletcher Heald. “The Commission has failed to provide drafts of the revised Form 323 to the public in a timely manner and has failed to provide notice of, and the requisite opportunities for comment on, the proposed changes to that Form.” Media Bureau staffers have been revising the form, not yet publicly available at our deadline, but expected to be out soon. A bureau spokeswoman declined to comment. The law firm filed the petition as a preventative measure so the commission can’t claim that issues relating to Form 323 weren’t raised now and so can’t be brought up in the future, Fletcher Heald attorney Harry Cole told us. “We filed today because this is the 30th day after the FCC’s last order in the Form 323 matter.”