Good News On Diversity Front

Turns out that when DuJuan McCoy gets FCC approval to buy seven TV stations–soon, and very soon, I hope–he will not be the lone African American owner of a Fox affiliate. That is according to Charles Glover, chairman of CorporatemediaConsultantsGroup, who sent the following note in response to last week’s news analysis piece in B&C about McCoy’s troubles in getting the DTV status of one of those stations straight with the FCC.

“Corporatemedia consultants group Which owns Fox 23 in Portland Maine and has been a Fox affiliate since 2004, is a minority company headed by myself with several other African American partners,” Glover told B&C. “It is true we have a licensed management agreement with Maxmedia. The station went on the air in April of 2004.”

I stand happily corrected.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.