When the requirement that broadcasters have an antidiscrimination provision in their advertising contracts became effective, the FCC's Enforcement Bureau issued a Fact Sheet that stated that broadcasters needed to make sure that this provision was not only in their own contracts, but also in that of rep firms and others who sold advertising on behalf of the stations (see our coverage here). Many stations feared that this policy would alone be difficult or impossible to enforce, as the stations simply had no way of policing the actions of the reps. There was also the fear that advertisers and their agencies would not want to sign agreements with these provisions, or that they would nevertheless buy advertising that avoided certain minority-formatted stations, just without the open "no urban, no Spanish" dictates that the rule was designed to guard against.....
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