Black Entertainment & Telecom Assn. (BETA) urged Senate Commerce ...
Black Entertainment & Telecom Assn. (BETA) urged Senate Commerce Committee Chmn. McCain (R-Ariz.) and House Commerce Committee Chmn. Tauzin (R-La.) to tell FCC Chmn. Powell to “uphold conditions of last year’s merger of CBS and Viacom, specifically Viacom’s obligation…
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to divest itself of the UPN television network,” despite Commission’s easing of broadcast dual-network ownership rule last week (CD April 20 p3). In separate but similar letters to McCain and Tauzin, BETA argued that dual- network limits should remain in place until Congress holds hearing on “how the FCC’s planned action would fuel the already rapid consolidation of the U.S. media, particularly as it relates to [the] dwindling number of black media companies.” BETA also called for passage of McCain’s Telecom Ownership Diversification Act of 2000, co-sponsored by Sen. Burns (R-Mont.), but suggested lawmakers add advertising tax deferral or credit to it. “Given the importance of advertising to the survival of black and other media outlets,” BETA said, “such a tax incentive is truly needed to have a viable, diversified telecom industry.”