Reconsider FM Dupe Order, Music Groups Ask FCC Aide
The FCC’s “abrupt elimination” of the FM portion of the radio duplication rule was an “unnecessarily broad deregulatory action,” said the American Association of Independent Music, Sound Exchange, musicFIRST Coalition and Future of Music Coalition in a call Friday with…
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an aide to acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, per a filing Tuesday in docket 19-310. The agency should reconsider that elimination, the groups said. A healthy radio “ecosystem” can be achieved only through “viewpoint diversity,” the filing said. That will be harmed if commonly owned stations can duplicate programming in the same market, it said. As a commissioner, Rosenworcel and fellow Democrat Geoffrey Starks dissented from the FM portion of the duplication rule order in August (see 2008060072).