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Nets, radio back EEO rules

By Bill McConnell -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/27/2003 3:00:00 AM

Heads of the broadcast-network owned-and-operated stations and radio-station groups Friday endorsed the Federal Communications Commission's new equal-employment-opportunity rules, which require stations to conduct broad outreach efforts to recruit minorities and women.

The rules go into effect March 10.

Signing on to a letter of support for FCC chairman Michael Powell were Tom Herwitz, Fox stations; Fred Reynolds, Viacom Inc. stations; John Sykes, Infinity Broadcasting Corp. radio; Walter Liss, ABC stations; John Hare, ABC Radio; Jay Ireland, NBC stations; and Ibra Morales, Telemundo Communications Group Inc. stations.

The rules are opposed as a paperwork burden by state broadcast organizations, which favor small group and single-station owners. The National Association of Broadcasters has pledged not to fight the new rules.

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