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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by ed25519FUUU on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:41PM (#36474260)
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.

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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by uejfiweun on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:55PM (#36474356)
Yeah, this rule in general seems pretty anachronistic when any old idiot can spin up a YouTube channel in approximately 5 minutes.
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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by cafard on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:09PM (#36474464)
There are a lot of boomers still living, breathing, and listening much more to radio than to YouTube.
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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by cf100clunk on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:11PM (#36474915)
My 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.
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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by kej on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:30AM (#36475737)
Yeah, 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.
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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by lupire on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:57PM (#36474371)
Meanwhile in DC, (at least some kinds of) felons have preference for marijuana licenses.
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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by brutusborn on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:40PM (#36475108)
Is this what you are talking about? If so, felons don’t get any preference.

https://outlawreport.com/dc-reverses-ban-on-former-felons-in...

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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by elisbce on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:00PM (#36474390)
You 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.
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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by lupire on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:05PM (#36474428)
What'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-d...

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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by sokoloff on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:15PM (#36474520)
Is 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?
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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by ThunderSizzle on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:24PM (#36474596)
Nothing like claiming something is racist by being racist.

Those representatives were inciting violence to perpetuate the ongoing mutilation of minors in the fraudulent field of gender affirming care. They just happened to also be black.

To be fair, the third representative wasn't expelled, because she was a woman, last I saw, but their probably is more details than that.

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Re:Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC 'char... by l0wp1t on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:20AM (#36475695)
Rules 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.
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