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NATOA Cries Foul Over FCC's ‘Shot Clock’ Violation

Beaty Wants Agency To Stop ‘Foot-Dragging’ On Video Application Process

By Linda Haugsted -- Multichannel News, 3/3/2008 10:33:00 AM

The National Associations of Telecommunications Officers of Advisors is chastising the Federal Communications Commission for failing to respond to a request the organization made in December to stay implementation of the so-called 90-day shot clock on franchising of new video applicants.

In a letter sent March 3, Libby Beaty, executive director of NATOA, asked the FCC for a written response to its Dec. 21 request.

NATOA made the stay request along with the National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the Alliance for Community Media and the Alliance for Communications Democracy. The organizations believe that an order issued by the FCC last March, mandating the 90-window to act on franchise applications, is arbitrary and capricious.

The groups also filed a federal court legal challenge of the FCC order.

“The commission has failed to respond to our Request for Stay for over 60 days.  All we want the commission to do is to grant or deny our request.  This foot-dragging on behalf of the commission is hypocritical, especially when a majority of the commission believes it is reasonable to impose arbitrary deadlines on local government franchising decisions,” Beaty said.

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