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NCE SUFRN Draft Still Would Require Information Collection From NCE Directors, Says Oxenford

The FCC draft item eliminating the need for noncommercial educational broadcasters to collect personal identification information from board members (see 1703300066) will still mean those stations need to survey potential board members for other broadcast interests, said Wilkinson Barker broadcast…

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attorney David Oxenford in a blog post Friday. Under the draft, such individuals will need to use the same Special Use FCC Registration Number (SUFRN) for all broadcast interests, and if they have a regular FRN from owning an interest in a commercial station, they will need to use that in the NCE station’s ownership report, Oxenford said. “Noncommercial licensees thus will still need to survey their officers and board members to make sure that they don’t have other broadcast interests, and to coordinate with other licensees in state systems to make sure that the same SUFRN is used.”