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Hey Bruno -- thanks for your feedback.  Our concern about the lack of female and minority ownership isn't politically motivated.  We believe in more diverse speech, more choice for viewers and owners who are more responsive to their local communities.  Study after study has shown that increasing diversity among owners leads to better and more diverse programming for consumers.  Free Press recently found that "Having a minority-owned station in a market was significantly correlated with a market airing both conservative and progressive programming."

You're right that there isn't a law that prevents women and minorities from owning broadcast stations.  But there are systematic, structural problems that could be addressed by the FCC or even by Congress, if need be.  For example, we could allow more low-power FM radio stations that are owned by groups who don't often have a voice on the airwaves (check out Prometheus Radio Project for more on the LPFM issue).  We could also change the media ownership limits so that a single company can't own 1200 radio stations or 50+ television stations -- so that there are more opportunities for all types of people and businesses to have a station.  The Minority Media & Telecommunications Council came up with 21 proposals aimed at promoting minority media ownership.  (The MMTC paper is quite technical, just a warning.)

Thanks again for helping keep us honest.