New FCC Boss Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay for Public Broadcasting

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New FCC Boss Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay for Public Broadcasting
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Matt Cover
CNSNews
August 13, 2009

Note: This scheme, if implemented, will drive all but the largest commerical broadcasters out of business.
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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.

Lloyd presented the idea in his 2006 book, Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America, published by the University of Illinois Press.
Lloyd’s hope is to dramatically upgrade and revamp the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through new funding drawn from private broadcasters.
The CPB is a non-profit entity that was created by Congress and that currently receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal subsidies each year. In fiscal 2009, it is receiving an appropriation of $400 million.
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