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FCC apologizes to Broadcast Blues Director
In the four years of making Broadcast Blues, I found that the Federal Communications Commission, the federal agency tasked with oversight of the broadcast airwaves, was completely ignoring the public. The key thread of the film surrounds the public's petitons to deny station licenses. (Most people don't know that we own the airwaves, and we can petition to have a station's license taken away.) At one point, an FCC media rep told me they do not keep track of these petitions, and had no idea when the last station's license was removed. (Not recently, obviously.)
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