NPR Cautions Against Relaxing NCE Funding Rules, in Meeting Pai Aides
NPR, happy for a reversal of an FCC Media Bureau rejection of a petition for reconsideration against Form 323 restricted use FCC registration numbers requiring board members of noncommercial educational stations to submit personal information (see 1702100015), sought to discourage…
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other leeway. Rules restricting third-party fundraising by NCEs shouldn’t be relaxed, NPR told aides to Chairman Ajit Pai, said an ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 07-294. Such a rule change could encourage “the use of NCE broadcast stations as fundraising vehicles for independent third parties or other non-station interests rather than as sources of public interest programming,” the public radio programmer said.