[BC] Public File proceeding

[Larry Fuss]

> Issues and Programs list and the programs on that list are sometimes the
only ways a license serves the community at many stations each week.  After
that, it's back to the same 300 records and ads.

But nobody ever looks at it.  It's paperwork being generated for the sake
of paperwork.

> The problem is, across the board, there has been less enforcement and more
relaxing of regulations.  It's gotta stop somewhere.

Enforce the regulations that matter.  The Public File is a joke.

> So, the fact that these files were a joke leads you to believe that,
instead
of realizing that maybe some of these people are unfit to hold a license, we
should just eliminate the public file all together?  Why not lower the
drinking age or legalize drugs since so many people break the law?  Let's
eliminate speed limits.

You're comparing apples to turnips and missing the point altogether.

> I still hear stations, even in big markets, that don't seem to understand
> what constitutes a legal ID.
> A legal ID?  That's what you're worried about?

If you can't do something as basic as a legal ID right, should you even be
in radio?

> I observe AM stations operating at night with day power and/or
> pattern.  And as you mentioned above, there are stations far from the
city-of-license
> with no published phone number in the COL.  Enforce THOSE rules rather
than put stations
> through a useless paperwork exercise.

> I wonder what their public files look like.

Why does it matter?  As I said, enforce the rules that matter!  Somebody's
public file
being a mess doesn't affect anyone - nobody sees it anyway.  A station
operating with
day power and/or pattern at night can cause widespread interference.  

Sorry, but we're just going to have to agree to disagree.  After 34 years in
radio, and
many immaculate public files, I find that my time spent on such public files
could have
been better spent on something that mattered.  

Larry Fuss