FCC Should Study Impact of Incentive Auction on Ownership Diversity, UCC Says
Moving forward in the quadrennial review docket without studying the impact of the incentive auction on ownership diversity would be “a significant failure” and violate the Administrative Procedure Act and the orders of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,…
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said the United Church of Christ Communications Office in an ex parte filing in docket 14-50. “The Commission must conduct an analysis of the Incentive Auction’s impact on minority and female ownership in order to comply with the Third Circuit mandate in Prometheus II.” The FCC also should improve its collection of Form 323 demographic data and its analysis of that information, UCC said. The commission also should begin studying shared service agreements and local news sharing agreements along with the effects of ownership rules and duopolies, UCC said. The FCC “must conduct studies if Congress is ever to adopt a new minority tax certificate, which has received high-profile and public support from Republicans, Democrats, and the NAB,” UCC said. “While many actors in this space have professed interest in reinstatement of the tax certificate, an adequate record is necessary for the Congress do to so.” Representatives from Common Cause, the Future of Music Coalition, National Hispanic Media Coalition and UCC met with an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, the filing recounted.