Black Leadership Forum Opposes Spectrum-Leasing Proposal

BLACK LEADERSHIP FORUM OPPOSES SPECTRUM-LEASING PROPOSAL
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Black Leadership Forum wrote the Federal Communications Commission arguing that a variety of proposals from FCC Chairman Kevin Martin would "damage" the business models of minority programmers. One of those is a digital-TV spectrum-leasing arrangement the chairman circulated for a vote recently. In the letter, the group took aim at cable a la carte, which they said would be "inimical" to minority programmers; at mandatory cable carriage of a broadcasters' multicast channels, which it called puzzling and unjustified; and at a proposal to lease DTV spectrum to designated entries including women and minorities, which it called a "consolation prize for all of the other FCC efforts to undermine minority programmers" that relegates them to second-class status.
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