Re: You can learn a lot about the FCC in about 5 minutes...

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Osborne" <mattosborne1976@yahoo.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 12:14 PM
Subject: You can learn a lot about the FCC in about 5 minutes...


>  Considering the current definition of radio
> ownership limits and COL, what market would WHFS(FM)
> Annapolis MD be considered part of for these rules,
> Washington DC or Baltimore?  After the question there
> was silence, the sounds of a few officials rustling
> around asking each other how that would be handled,
> and after about a minute and a half or two minutes of
> this rustling, the representative abruptly changed the
> subject to the new television ownership cap numbers.
> Boy, what an FCC we have when they don't even know
> what they themselves are doing!  And yet, they are
> about to apply new rules to television where this very
> issue brought up is also applicable.  Downright scary
> if you ask me

You seriously expect an FCC Commissioner to know off the top of their heads
what communities are included in every market in the country?

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine