Hundt pledges gains for minorities. (Reed Hundt says that FCC is monitoring minority hiring practices)

Broadcasting & Cable, August, 1994 by Stern, Christopher

Invoking memories of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., FCC Chairman Reed Hundt last week told the National Urban League that his agency had stepped up its efforts to monitor minority hiring by broadcasters and cable systems and would work hard to increase opportunities for minorities on the information superhighway.

"We want to have the ownership and management ranks in this sector look more like the people they serve," Hundt said. He added that the FCC has given minorities, along with women and small businesses, significant advantages in its multimilliondollar auction of radio spectrum for wireless communications (see story, page 8). The advantages include bidding credits, installment plans and tax certificates. Hundt used his appearance at...

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