Black Television News Channel continued to urge the...
Black Television News Channel continued to urge the FCC to grant it a three-year waiver of the ban on ads carried on direct broadcast satellite noncommercial set-aside channels. BTNC said “not a single party has filed comments opposing BTNC’s request,”…
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in reply comments in docket 14-77 (http://bit.ly/1mUIJo8). The FCC has abundant good cause to promptly grant BTNC’s request, and thereby foster a diverse and significant source of news, informational and educational programming “to serve the African-American community and the nation as a whole,” it said. The commission can waive the advertising ban for BTNC, without running afoul of the statute, by clarifying that this ban isn’t a statutory requirement, “but instead reflects a commission interpretation that can be waived for good cause shown,” it said.