Rep Rush Pushes FCC to OK BTNC Waiver

Rep Bobby Rush (D-IL) and three other members of the Congressional Black Caucus have written the Federal Communications Commission asking that the agency help the Black Television News Channel (BTNC) get off the ground and onto Dish and DirecTV.

In the letter, they urged the FCC to approve a temporary, three-year waiver of the FCC’s requirement that programmers using DBS “noncommercial educational” channel set-asides be commercial free.