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Digital Competition No Reason to Roll Back Radio Regulations, Says FMC

Broadcaster arguments radio competes with unregulated digital companies are “unconvincing,” said the Future of Music Coalition in a meeting March 12 with an aide to FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, it filed, posted Monday in FCC quadrennial review docket 18-349. Lack…

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of oversight over digital companies “is not a reason for FCC to be less than diligent in its approach to regulating radio,” FMC said. Consolidation in terrestrial radio exacerbates problems from consolidation in adjacent marketplaces, the group said. The coalition is interested in opening up “additional lines of communication between the FCC and the music community.”