Martin Launches IG Investigation of Missing Studies

MARTIN LAUNCHES IG INVESTIGATION OF MISSING STUDIES
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
As promised, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is investigating two reports on media ownership -- radio and TV -- that were created at the FCC but never released. In a letter to Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Martin said that he was making the second report available on the FCC Web site. He also said he would include that report, a 2003 study of radio ownership, as part of the open localism and media ownership proceedings. He did the same with the initial 2004 TV report.
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* Letter from Chairman Martin to Senator Boxer
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-267475A1.pdf

* Draft 2003 "Review of the Radio Industry"
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-267479A1.pdf

* Powell: Politics Quashed No Reports
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell said Tuesday that he was not aware of the second unpublished FCC report on media ownership that has surfaced from the office of Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), that not all reports get published, and that any conjecture that the reports were unpublished for political reasons was wrong. Ken Ferree, who was Media Bureau chief at the FCC, says there are probably thousands of pages of material from lawyers and economists that never see the light of day for any number of reasons, including management of resources, "but it would not be because of the results," he said. "There are lots of things that never go out the door."
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6373385.html