FCC Should Increase Broadcast Public Notice Requirement, Not Weaken It, Says Common Cause
The FCC shouldn't weaken or eliminate the local public notice requirement for broadcasters, said Common Cause and the Georgetown Law Institute for Public Representation in an Aug. 12 meeting with Media Bureau Audio Division Chief Al Shuldiner and other Media…
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Bureau staff, according to a Monday ex parte filing in docket 17-264. The agency should instead make public notices more effective by adding a requirement that they state if an applicant is seeking a waiver of the rules, the filing said. “Clear and transparent local public notice enables the public to exercise its rights to participate in license proceedings,” the filing said. “Waiver requests presume that an applicant seeks an action contrary to the public interest.”