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"Bob Haberkost" wrote in message ... I know I had a "public affairs" show killed that we ran on WTAE years ago. The agency who provided, for free, the half-hour program (which aired in the middle of the night on Sunday, in order to meet minimum public affairs hours in the days when such minimums were still in force) was something like the National Coal Producers' Association. Routinely this program would extol the virtues of burning "King Coal" (often slamming other energy sources), an advocacy which I felt was too one-sided, and obviously so considering the source of the program. After a few listens, the continuity/public affairs director agreed with me and pulled the show. What we got in its place, though, was even more boring. Well, at least no one was listening. In a sense, that proved the futility of putting program quotas on stations. I recall many times when I did ascertainment or tried to get community programs on the air, I would be told to bug off because the real community leaders did not have time to talk to so many stations about "nonesense" or to do so many radio shows. Here's the FCC's letter to me from Norman Goldstein; Complaints and Investigation Branch; Enforcement Div; Mass Media bureau of the FCC: It's worth noting, though, how often this particular reason has been used to refuse renewal of a licensee. I'd guess zero (Red Lion was fairness doctrine violations, as I recall, as was Media, PA...I've forgotten the calls for these....WGCL and WXUR? But the Fairness Doctrine is gutted, now...there isn't a station on-air who would be liable for it, as it's so easily sidestepped by calling it entertainment programming. Then there was WHDH....RKO...these were financial shenanigans, if I remember correctly. So not a one lost a license based on "fitness".) Fitness has been used a few times, ususally when a licencee has been convicted of a crime. The recent revocation of about 6 licences of a guy from Terre Haute comes to mind. |
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