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More NCE Challenges of RUFRN Rules

Two more petitions for reconsideration were filed by noncommercial educational licensees against FCC rules that require board members of NCE stations to give the commission personal identification information to obtain restricted-use FCC registration numbers. They follow a petition filed by…

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numerous licensees Tuesday (see 1605040056). It’s an “ongoing challenge” for many NCE stations to find “qualified, committed individuals to donate their time and attention to station governance, much less ask personal questions to register them with the FCC,” said a joint filing by several NCE licensees, including the Board of Trustees of Florida Gulf Coast University, Capital Community Broadcasting and New Hampshire Public Broadcasting. The new rule “will have a potentially chilling effect by negatively impacting our ability to attract diverse community volunteers,” said American Public Media Group. The new RUFRN rules are intended to help the FCC study diversity in broadcasting, but public TV is already more diverse than commercial TV, the licensees argued. The commission should reconsider the RUFRN rules, both petitions said.