"promise versus performance" has always been a licensing issue, less so now that you can get a station without promising much of anything. The big programming commitment to get a license really only applied to the first license term. However, in the absence of comparative proceedings to select licensees, the promises just aren't offered up these days. However, having once done a study as to why TV and FM stations lost their license, I can't recall any case where promise vs. performance resulted in a loss of license. Even in the WHDH-TV case (mid-1960's) where promise versus performance on public affairs programming was at stake (with a new applicant promising more), the station loss came from bribing the then-chairman of the FCC (Mr. Lee) as detailed in the book "The 200 Million Dollar Lunch." And, when the new applicants won the license, they not only promised much, they exceeded their promises. Not much has changed except that these promises don't arise these days. And, need I point out that with the sunset of analog, TV stations get "renewal expectancy| making it harder to lose a license? John Willkie -----Mensaje original----- De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de flyback1 Enviado el: Sunday, July 08, 2007 1:24 PM Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Asunto: [opendtv] Re: DTT tuner design johnwillkie wrote: > I'm sorry, on MY PLANET producing and airing a local public affairs program > (not required by any law or regulation)... I thought that a given station's FCC broadcast license was issued in part to 'serve the public interest, necessity and convenience' by producing and airing local public affairs programming. The interesting point is that although there is no FCC stipulated minimum number of hours of such programming, if a station makes a big public affairs programming commitment to get the license, they then must live up to that commitment or face the possibility of losing the license at the next renewal. Has any of this changed? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.