On December 13, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski urging the FCC to develop a robust record on minority and female broadcast media ownership before it considers relaxing rules intended to promote media ownership diversity. The Joint center notes the recent release of the FCC’s broadcast ownership report, but said the report does not contain reliable data dispositive of either how relaxing the FCC’s media ownership rules will favor minority and female broadcast ownership or whether relaxing the rules would not buttress existing market entry barriers.
See the article at the Benton Foundation.
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