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At first I thought this was maybe clickbait and the article would provide some additional details. But it’s pretty much as dumb as it sounds. Basically any rad
by ed25519FUUU 3y ago
At first I thought this was maybe clickbait and the article would provide some additional details. But it’s pretty much as dumb as it sounds.
Basically any radio station owner with a felony is automatically placed into a hearing, and this tax fraud felony from 2008 was made available to the FCC now (from not paying taxes on some cigarette stamps, seems a trifle).
Still seems dumb on the FCCs part. It’s not like you’re guessing about the station. It’s been on the air for a decade. No hearing necessary.
- uejfiweun 3y agoYeah, this rule in general seems pretty anachronistic when any old idiot can spin up a YouTube channel in approximately 5 minutes.
- cafard 3y agoThere are a lot of boomers still living, breathing, and listening much more to radio than to YouTube.
- cf100clunk 3y agoMy knee-jerk sense of fair play has me wondering how/why Fox News license holders are not at risk of losing theirs, given the self-acknowledged mendacity of some of its on-air personalities. To me, that goes directly to 'character qualifications', but perhaps cable TV network owners do not face the same standards as their broadcast radio station colleagues.
- kej 3y agoYeah, broadcast and cable are regulated very differently because radio spectrum is a limited shared public resource while cable is mostly private property and essentially unlimited channels.
- lupire 3y agoMeanwhile in DC, (at least some kinds of) felons have preference for marijuana licenses.
- brutusborn 3y agoIs this what you are talking about? If so, felons don’t get any preference. https://outlawreport.com/dc-reverses-ban-on-former-felons-in-cannabis-industry/ https://outlawreport.com/dc-reverses-ban-on-former-felons-in...
- elisbce 3y agoYou know what's dumb? Pulling a "black-owned" racial card every time there is anything happening, even if the rules have nothing to do with race.
- lupire 3y agoWhat's dumb is not comprehending the wider impact. > The owner of Knoxville, Tennessee's only Black-owned radio station You may recognize Tennessee from such hits as "Tennessee legislature expels 2 Black representatives". https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tennessee-expulsion-house-democrats-expelled-what-happens-now/ https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tennessee-expulsion-house-d...
- ThunderSizzle 3y ago[flagged]
- sokoloff 3y agoIs there an implication that because a state did something likely racist that a federal agency is motivated by the same racism? Are there white station owners with felonies?
- l0wp1t 3y agoRules can have a higher impact to some races vs other races. Like this rule affect blacks more since they only make up 13% of the population but make up 34% of felons out there.