
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, July 16, 1990                   TAG: 9007160088
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: STATE 
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FCC ASKED TO REVOKE 200 STATION LICENSES

In the most sweeping challenge of the broadcast industry since the early 1970s, civil rights groups over the past 20 months have asked the Federal Communications Commission to revoke the licenses of more than 200 radio and TV stations that allegedly have not met FCC minority employment obligations.

On July 2, the NAACP and the National Hispanic Media Coalition filed its latest round of challenges - opposing the license renewals of 24 Texas radio stations. Those filings come on top of about 180 license challenges filed since 1988 by the two organizations, the United Latin American Citizens and the National Black Media Coalition.

Among the incidents cited in the complaints is the case of one South Carolina radio station that allegedly fired all its black employees and replaced them with whites after the station switched its music format from rhythm and blues to rock. - Los Angeles Times

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