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“The FCC advisory council should suggest ways to reduce discrimination in communication services and help underserved people benefit from services used for education, work, business, and public participation.”
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“The FCC advisory council should bring stakeholders together to discuss service buildout, prices, digital discrimination, financing, mentoring, job training, ownership, and contracts, and should use data on industry trends before making recommendations.”
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“TV and radio station ownership incentives should be limited to stations where women or people affected by racial, ethnic, or cultural bias own enough of the station and help control daily operations.”
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“The FCC should regularly tell Congress who owns radio and TV stations, how tax certificates are being used, whether ownership affects on-air viewpoints, and whether similar tax incentives should be considered beyond broadcasting.”
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“The FCC should have a new advisory council that studies equity, diversity, access, and opportunity in communication services the FCC regulates.”
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“The FCC should have to remove its main broadcast ownership limits and should not be able to cap how many radio stations, TV stations, or local newspaper-broadcast combinations one person or company can own or control.”
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“The FCC should tell Congress within six years whether ownership-diversity tax certificates should be expanded beyond broadcast stations to other businesses the FCC regulates.”
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“Certified station sale tax benefits should have deal-size and annual-use caps, require qualifying ownership to continue for two to three years, require qualifying owners to help manage the station, and trigger FCC, IRS, or tax consequences when those conditions are missed or broken.”
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“Qualifying news outlets should be allowed to coordinate with each other to withhold their news content from a covered large online platform during protected bargaining talks.”
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“For four years, qualifying news outlets should be able to bargain together with covered large online platforms over how their news is distributed, including payment, credit, branding, accuracy, and technical access, with similar outlets treated similarly and negotiated terms made available more broadly.”
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“Broadcast tax certificates should come with dollar caps, limits on how much one seller can use each year, a two-to-three-year ownership holding period, active management by qualifying owners, regular buyer certifications, and tax consequences if those conditions stop being met.”
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“When a company buys TV stations, radio stations, or daily newspapers, antitrust enforcers should not be able to use the buyer's larger share of those media markets as the reason to say the deal harms competition or creates a monopoly?”
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“The protected joint bargaining system should be limited to qualifying news outlets that produce regular original public-interest news and to talks with online platforms that show, distribute, or send users to outside news and have at least 1 billion monthly users worldwide.”
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“The FCC advisory council should open its meetings to the public, publish materials such as recommendations, summaries, minutes, and presentations, and announce each meeting in the Federal Register.”
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“Sellers in certified radio or TV station deals should be able to delay some tax on sale gains by making a binding tax choice and reinvesting or reducing tax basis, with the benefit starting after one year and ending after 16 years.”
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“Donors should be able to claim a business tax credit for giving a TV or radio station, or part of one, to an FCC-certified charity that trains socially disadvantaged people to run stations, if the charity keeps the property for at least two years and the donor does not also take the normal charitable deduction.”
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