FCC Should Relax Radio Ownership Rules, Says Zimmer Radio
Without more relaxed ownership rules, the smartphone could devastate radio the way the internet has devastated newspapers, said Zimmer Radio President John Zimmer in a letter to the FCC posted Friday in docket 18-349. If FCC rules allowed radio groups…
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to buy more stations locally, Zimmer could “try to create a model like that of satellite radio” on a local scale, Zimmer said. “I know in my heart and head that this would allow radio operators to bring more local news and more program diversity to their communities.”