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DESCRIPTION:The FCC is coming to Oakland October 27, 5 pm!\n This is the only hearing 
 in the Bay Area dealing with corporate media consolidation and lack of 
 diversity in the media. The FCC wants to allow Big Media to own more TV and 
 radio stations in the Bay Area and to allow newspaper companies to buy TV 
 and radio stations as well. Stop the monopoly!\n\n Please come to hear from 
 others and speak up. Spread the word!\n\nWHAT: FCC Hearing on Media 
 Ownership\nWHEN: Friday October 27, starting at 5 pm\nWHERE: Oakland 
 Marriott City Center, 1001 Broadway at 10th St (BART Oakland 12th St, 
 map)\nSponsored by the NAACP, Media Alliance, the Youth Media Council, and 
 Free Press\n (more info at www.media-alliance.org)\n\nThis is Why the FCC 
 Needs to Hear from You!\n\nThere's no diversity in TV\n	• 	NBC's 
 Telemundo announced last Friday that it will close its San Jose studio and 
 it will no longer offer local news in the Bay Area.\n	• 	Out of an 
 estimated 12,500 stories aired by ABC, CBS, and NBC in 2005, the three 
 major English-language networks, only 105 were exclusively about Latinos or 
 Latino-related issues.\n	• 	People of color comprise 33 % of the entire 
 U.S. population, but own about 3% percent of all TV stations in the 
 U.S.\nClear Channel spreads hate in the Bay Area\n	• 	Clear Channel 
 exploited a loophole in this rule and owns 11 radio stations in the Bay 
 Area market (San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland).\n	• 	Clear Channel owns 
 910AM KNEW, a right-wing talk station notorious for its sensational 
 content. The Youth Media Council and Media Alliance monitored KNEW and 
 found numerous incidents of hateful speech. For example, talk hosts used 
 the word ‘vermin’ to refer to undocumented immigrants more than 43 
 times in one 40-minute segment.\nThere's a monopoly in Bay Area print\n	• 
 	One company (Dean Singleton‘s MediaNews) now controls more than 40 daily 
 and weekly newspapers in Northern California—from Monterey to 
 Marin--including the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune, the Contra 
 Costa Times, the Monterey Herald, the Marin Independent Journal. In other 
 words, every major daily except for the SF Chron, the Examiner, and the 
 Santa Rosa Press Democrat.\n	• 	Singleton's company has already announced 
 over 100 layoffs in the Mercury News; more to come in the Contra Costa 
 Times.\nNOW THE FCC WANTS TO REWARD THE TV NETWORKS, CLEAR CHANNEL, AND 
 DEAN SINGLETON WITH MORE AND MORE STATIONS.\n\n STOP THE MONOPOLY!\n\n For 
 more information, go to www.media-alliance.org or call 510-832-9000 ext 
 303\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/23/18322678.php
SUMMARY:FCC hearing on Rule Relaxations!! Come Testify!!
LOCATION:Oakland Marriott City Center\n1001 Broadway at 10th St (BART Oakland 12th 
 St, map)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/23/18322678.php
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