[BC] BC] The things licensees get away with...

[Tom Spencer]

Tom:

It says "Advertising sales agreements"; the word "contract" is not 
there.  Although I agree - whatever was done over a handshake, or via 
email, or whatever... you can't really know the other guy's inner thoughts.

Would "To the best knowledge of the licensee and its employees, all 
advertising agreements between station and any advertiser do not carry 
any ethnic discrimination clauses or instructions." be sufficient?

Now, if one were to be carrying a Hispanic format... could that entire 
format be called discriminatory?  How about Urban?  Country?

Would the spots produced by and for country formatted stations by 
definition discriminate against African Americans?  And Urban formats 
against Hispanics?  AAC against all of them?

One of those nonsense rules; I think I'd be asking counsel about my 
first sentence, and let it go at that.

Tom Taggart wrote:
> Sid:
>
> Look at the current renewal form. Form 303-S  This is a
> different question from the public file question. The exact
> language is:
>
> "Commercial licensee certifies that its advertising sales
> agreements do not discriminate on the basis of race or
> ethnicity and that all such agreements held by the licensee
> contain nondiscrimination clauses."

-- 
Tom Spencer