QR Petitioners Assail FCC for Ignoring Race, Gender Ownership Diversity Issues
The FCC is trying to both claim it has addressed broadcast race and gender ownership diversity issues while insisting it also can't, when neither is true, petitioner anticonsolidation groups Prometheus Radio Project and others said in a 3rd U.S. Circuit…
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Court of Appeal reply brief Friday. They are challenging the 2014 quadrennial review, ownership reconsideration order and broadcast incubator program. They said the FCC and intervenor opposition briefs (see 1903220045) don't address their central arguments and that the agency's untying its ownership rules from race and gender diversity is without any support, thus deserving no deference. They said the FCC wrongly ignored the incentive auction's effect on race and gender diversity while also claiming the auction might help diversity efforts. They said the record doesn't support the claim the radio incubator will encourage new entrants and small businesses, including female and minority applicants. The agency didn't comment.