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Strip public radio and television stations of their noncommercial educational status

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 8, p. 247. Written by Mora Namdar, Mike Gonzalez.

Strip public radio and television stations of their noncommercial educational status

The document says “shouldWho acts: President, FCCHow: regulationIn: Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Mike Gonzalezp. 247 in the PDF
What the document says

“They should no longer, for example, be qualified as noncommercial education stations (NCE stations)”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 247

Noncommercial educational status gives stations reserved places on the broadcast spectrum. The chapter says NPR, Pacifica and the other radio ventures have no claim on an educational function, and that the President should instruct the Federal Communications Commission to exclude stations affiliated with PBS and NPR from that category.

What the document actually says

“They should no longer, for example, be qualified as noncommercial education stations (NCE stations)”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 247
That sentence, in plain words

These stations count as school stations. The book says they should not.

What this is about

Some stations are marked as school stations. That gives them reserved space on the airwaves. The book says these no longer teach. It says they should lose that status.

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