MMTC, NHMC Urge 'Race Neutral' Approach in Quadrennial Review
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council urged the FCC to continue finding new ways to advance diversity by considering the race-neutral proposals before the commission. The FCC should “make diversity, diverse ownership, and diverse participation a policy priority in every…
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aspect of its decision making process,” MMTC said in an ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 14-50 on the 2014 quadrennial review. The FCC should encourage more diverse participation in every communications platform, “as we cannot predict where future opportunities will necessarily arise,” it said. The filing pertains to a meeting this month with Media Bureau staff. The National Hispanic Media Coalition urged the FCC to retain or tighten existing media ownership rules as a race-neutral way “to preserve or create ownership opportunities for new entrants, including women and people of color,” NHMC said in an ex parte filing in the same docket. It urged the commission to continue seeking and analyzing data about broadcast ownership by women and people of color and the impacts of such ownership.