FCC Should Re-Evaluate AM/FM Subcaps, Says Dick Broadcasting
The FCC should take “a hard look” at AM/FM subcaps as it considers NAB’s reconsideration petition of the 2014 quadrennial review and associated ownership rules, said Dick Broadcasting in a letter posted in docket 14-50 Friday. “Changes within terrestrial radio…
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have mitigated the difference between FM and AM service originally justifying the subcaps,” the firm said. "In its ownership order retaining the subcaps, the Commission mischaracterized or ignored record evidence of the impact of such changes,” Dick Broadcasting said. It said the agency should “now reevaluate the AM/FM subcaps in light of the new media landscape.”