FCC Should Relax Broadcaster Filing Requirements, NAB Says
The FCC should eliminate rules requiring filing of equal employment opportunity mid-term reports and lists and reports on children’s programming rules, said NAB in a meeting last week with Media Bureau Chief Michelle Carey and staff from the bureau and…
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Office of General Counsel, according to an ex parte filing in docket 17-105. Compliance with FCC paperwork and filing requirements has “little to do with the actual programming offered by local stations,” said NAB. The FCC should replace children’s TV filing requirements with an annual compliance report, which would reduce the burden on broadcasters “without impeding the work of Commission staff or affecting service to the public,” the filing said.