MMTC Pushes for FCC Action on 7 Diversity Initiatives
The FCC, to “create and preserve racial justice,” should act quickly on seven initiatives for social diversity, said the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council in a letter to acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel’s office filed Wednesday in docket 17-105. “There…
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is no better time than now to give effect to this moral imperative,” said the letter, signed by new MMTC President Robert Branson. MMTC wants the agency to give minorities more access to FM station ownership through geotargeting and a C4 class, improve the radio incubator program, require equal opportunity in procurement, press Congress on the minority tax certificate, include diversity impact statements in FCC orders, vigorously enforce equal employment opportunity rules, and pursue multilingual emergency alert system messages, the letter said. The FCC “carries the enormous responsibility of overseeing one-sixth of our national economy, including some of America’s fastest-growing industries and greatest exports,” the letter said. The agency’s “long and malodorous history of minority exclusion should both haunt and motivate all of us,” MMTC said. “Hopefully, looking back on 2021, future students of history will recognize the FCC as an agency that seized the moment and swiftly affirmed its commitment to racial justice.”