Cox Radio, Other Similar Licensees Get FCC Leeway From Posting Online Some Past Documents

Two Cox Radio stations and other similarly situated FCC licensees got staff leeway to not post in their online public files some documents from past license renewal cycles when there was no opposition to the renewals. Those broadcasters can make their quarterly issues/program lists and annual equal employment opportunity reports from previous renewals that remain pending available to the public at their main studio instead of uploading them. Documents from the current license renewal term aren't exempt, and the past renewals must be deferred for reasons not related to the obligations to air content responsive to the community, comply with EEO rules or keep documents relating to those two areas. Cox Radio said (see 1612150071) "uploading thousands of pages of quarterly issues/programs lists and annual EEO reports covering up to a twenty-year period will be burdensome to the Stations and will not provide any benefit to the public," said a Media Bureau order published in Friday's Daily Digest, and docket 14-127. "Commission action on the renewal applications has been delayed, according to Cox Radio, due to the Commission’s continued examination of its newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership rule."