[ed25519FUUU]

At first I thought this was maybe clickbait and the article would provide some additional details. But it’s pretty much as dumb as it sounds.

Basically any radio station owner with a felony is automatically placed into a hearing, and this tax fraud felony from 2008 was made available to the FCC now (from not paying taxes on some cigarette stamps, seems a trifle).

Still seems dumb on the FCCs part. It’s not like you’re guessing about the station. It’s been on the air for a decade. No hearing necessary.

[elisbce]

You know what's dumb? Pulling a "black-owned" racial card every time there is anything happening, even if the rules have nothing to do with race.

[lupire]

What's dumb is not comprehending the wider impact.

> The owner of Knoxville, Tennessee's only Black-owned radio station

You may recognize Tennessee from such hits as "Tennessee legislature expels 2 Black representatives".

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tennessee-expulsion-house-d...

[sokoloff]

Is there an implication that because a state did something likely racist that a federal agency is motivated by the same racism? Are there white station owners with felonies?

[l0wp1t]

Rules can have a higher impact to some races vs other races. Like this rule affect blacks more since they only make up 13% of the population but make up 34% of felons out there.

[lupire]

Meanwhile in DC, (at least some kinds of) felons have preference for marijuana licenses.

[brutusborn]

Is this what you are talking about? If so, felons don’t get any preference.

https://outlawreport.com/dc-reverses-ban-on-former-felons-in...

[uejfiweun]

Yeah, this rule in general seems pretty anachronistic when any old idiot can spin up a YouTube channel in approximately 5 minutes.

[cf100clunk]

My knee-jerk sense of fair play has me wondering how/why Fox News license holders are not at risk of losing theirs, given the self-acknowledged mendacity of some of its on-air personalities. To me, that goes directly to 'character qualifications', but perhaps cable TV network owners do not face the same standards as their broadcast radio station colleagues.

[kej]

Yeah, broadcast and cable are regulated very differently because radio spectrum is a limited shared public resource while cable is mostly private property and essentially unlimited channels.

[cafard]

There are a lot of boomers still living, breathing, and listening much more to radio than to YouTube.