Federal Communications Commission
With the major demographic shifts occurring in the country in terms of the racial-ethnic composition of the population, where 9 of the 10 largest cities, for example, now have "majority minority" populations, the FCC has also been criticized for ignoring the issue of decreasing racial-ethnic diversity of the media. This includes charges that the FCC has been watering down the limited affirmative action regulations it had on the books, including no longer requiring stations to make public their data on their minority staffing and hiring. In the second half of 2006, groups such as the National Hispanic Media Coalition, the National Latino Media Council, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the National Institute for Latino Policy, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and others held town hall meetings in California, New York and Texas on media diversity as its affects Latinos and other communities of color. They documented widespread and deeply-felt community concerns about the negative effects of media concentration and consolidation on racial-ethnic diversity in staffing and programming. See El Diario La Prensa's editorial on media diversity. At these Latino town hall meetings, the issue of the FCC's lax monitoring of obscene and pornographic material in Spanish-language radio and the lack of racial and national-origin diversity among Latino staff in Spanish-language television were other major themes.
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FCC broadcasting tower database
The FCC database of broadcasting towers [3] provides information about the height and year built of broadcasting towers in the USA. It does not contain information about the structural types of towers or about the height of towers used for non-broadcasting purposes like NDBs, LORAN-C transmission towers or VLF transmission facilities of the US Navy, or about towers not used for transmission like the BREN-Tower.
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References
- ^ FCC Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis
- ^ Combs, Roberta. Christian Coalition of America, Washington Weekly Review, June 17, 2006
- ^ Bill Number S. 193. Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 (Introduced in Senate) from Congressional THOMAS DB. Retrieved on April 11, 2005.
- ^ FCC Commissioners, Additional Information. Retrieved on 2007-07-18.
- ^ http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/mcdowell/
- ^ Fifth Review of the Radio Industry, FCC Media Bureau, undated
- ^ a b John Dunbar, Senator says media study suppressed "Senator says media study suppressed", Associated Press, September 18, 2006
- ^ John Dunbar, "Lawyer says FCC ordered study destroyed", Associated Press, September 14, 2006
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See also
- frequency assignment authority
- open spectrum
- Ofcom (British equivalent)
- Mercedes divide
- FCC MB Docket 04-232
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External links
- FCC website
- Antenna Geocode Locator
- Enforcement Policies Regarding Broadcast Indecency
- FCC Rules(CFR Title 47) On-Line at GPO
- The FCC Record online at the UNT Libraries Digital Collections
- New Wave: The case for killing the FCC and selling off spectrum By Jack Shafer, 17 January 2007
- Federal Communications Commission Meeting Notices and Rule Changes from The Federal Register RSS Feed
- Cybertelecom :: FCC and the Internet
- FCC Daily Digest provided as an RSS feed
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