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The FCC should adopt proposals in a radio rulemaking to...

The FCC should adopt proposals in a radio rulemaking to give tribes without lands priority for stations (CD May 5 p7), said a reply by Native Public Media and the National Congress of American Indians. “Applying the Tribal Priority to…

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federally recognized Tribes with little or no land holdings will open up the Tribal Priority to more than just the 312 Tribes that reside on reservations and pueblos, and will make it potentially available to all 565 federally recognized Tribes,” said the Wednesday filing in docket 09-52. “Providing applicants with a substantial Tribal Bidding Credit, in tandem with the New Entrant Bidding Credit, will provide Tribes, for the first time, with the real possibility of outbidding existing media companies for facilities that have been allocated to serve Indian Country."