New FCC Plan

Something else ticking me off today. I read about this last night, and could not believe my eyes.

FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to Their Total Operating Costs to Fund Public Broadcasting.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Mark Lloyd, newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer of the Federal Communications Commission, has called for making private broadcasting companies pay licensing fees equal to their total operating costs to allow public broadcasting outlets to spend the same on their operations as the private companies do.

Go here for the full sicking article:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/52435

This looks to me like another attempt to silence free speech on radio. If you double the operating cost of a station, they will go out of business. Team O has been looking for ways to regulate talk radio off the air, and this looks like their new plan.

Read the article and decided for yourself.