On Monday, November 18, 2002 at 11:00 AM at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, the Future of Music Coalition (FMC) will release “Radio Deregulation: Has It Served Citizens and Musicians?”, a new report that examines how radical consolidation of radio station ownership has damaged the public’s radio airwaves and stifled localism, competition, innovation and diversity across the country. This comprehensive analysis is critically important and timely considering the FCC’s third biennial review of broadcast ownership rules currently underway. read more
Thanks for tuning in, and for hanging tight. As usual, we’ve been
hard at work on many fronts since we last wrote – organizing events,
writing, drafting responses to FCC rules, engaging with the low power
radio community, learning more about digital distribution services, and
grantwriting. We thank everyone who wrote sent us feedback about newsletter
#27 – we’re glad it was informative! But we also heard that
the newsletters are too long. So…we’re putting on our “economy
of language” hats for this report as well as shifting some longer
pieces to the website where folks can peruse them at their leisure. Let
us know if this makes the newsletters more readable. And now, the news:
The Future of Music Coalition today released a
portion of the results of a public opinion survey that it commissioned
regarding citizens’ satisfaction with commercial radio. The survey
found strong public support for policies to counteract the effects of
radio consolidation. read more
Future of Music Coalition (FMC), by counsel, the Media Access Project,
respectfully replied to comments filed in this proceeding on radio broadcast station ownership in local markets, highlighting how niche musical formats addressing significant but minority tastes have been abandoned as ownership concentration increases. FMC’s reply comments also describe
certain steps we have taken to produce additional data which will
assist the Commission in assessing the impact of consolidation in radio ownership. read more