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Clear Channel has filed comments with the FCC opposing the adoption of new localism regulation. Clear Channel says the proposed regulations would turn the broadcast industry upside down and bring the industry back to a regulatory regime “long ago rejected” as being fraught with First Amendment difficulties.
The comments point out that “there is but one certainty in the radio business,” which is the fact that, if a station is not giving listeners what they want, they will listen to something else. With that in mind, “Does it make sense for a bureaucrat in Washington to tell a station manager thousands of miles away in Bismarck, ND, how to run his or her radio station?”
The rules under consideration include requiring a station’s main facility to be in its city of license; local programming guidelines to be considered at license renewal, a requirement that broadcasters form and meet with permanent community advisory boards, regulation of voicetracking, and a requirement that stations report playlist data, writes Radio Ink.
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