FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler assured some members of...
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler assured some members of Congress that their support for an effort to allow Black Television News Channel to carry ads on direct broadcast satellite noncommercial set-aside channels will be considered. FCC rules require 4 percent of…
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a DBS carrier’s channel capacity to be reserved exclusively for noncommercial programming of an educational or informational nature, he said in letters released Friday (http://bit.ly/VI9f9Q). Wheeler wrote separate letters to Reps. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., Corrine Brown, D-Fla., Bobby Rush, D-Ill., Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., and other members of Congress. BTNC would like the FCC to waive the ad ban as part of its effort to partner with Florida A&M University (CD July 3 p12).