FCC Owes Puerto Rico Field Hearings, Damage Assessment, Rosenworcel Says
The FCC “owes” Puerto Rico and communities damaged by 2017 hurricanes “basic assessment of the consequences for communications” with “field hearings and reports,” Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said in an address Wednesday at the Hispanic Radio Conference. “While we have a…
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proposal before us to support the recovery of wired and wireless communications, the FCC has not completed a full public study of what went right and what went wrong,” Rosenworcel said. “We should -- before hurricane season is here.” It begins “in a few short weeks,” Rosenworcel said. She criticized policies on media ownership, and of the low rates of Hispanic broadcast ownership. The agency “has been on a tear” to dismantle the commission’s support of diverse ownership, Rosenworcel said. She praised actions by the American Association of Advertising Agencies to end discrimination by ad agencies against minority media outlets (see 1802060049). The FCC didn't comment.