OCBO Announces Award of Contract for Literature Review

(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The Federal Communications Commission issued the following public notice: Today, the Federal Communications Commission entered into a contract with the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to provide a literature review of research into the critical information needs of the American public and the barriers to participation in the communications industry that might limit the extent to which critical needs are met. The study is intended to inform the Commission's 2012 report to Congress on barriers to participation, also known as the Section 257 Report. The work will be managed by the FCC's Office of Communications Business Opportunities (OCBO). The award was made after careful review of responses to a Request for Quotation involving a number of highly qualified applicants. USC assembled a broad coalition of over 30 academics to inform their work.

Section 257 of the Communications Act of 1943, as amended, (Communications Act) mandates that, every three years, the Commission review and report to Congress on (1) efforts to identify and eliminate regulatory barriers to market entry in the provision and ownership of telecommunications services and information services, or in the provision of parts or services to providers of telecommunications services and information services by entrepreneurs and other small businesses and (2) proposals to eliminate statutory barriers to market entry by those entities, consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity. The purposes underlying the requirements contained in Section 257 are: to promote the policies and purposes of the Communications Act favoring a diversity of media voices, vigorous economic competition, technological advancement, and promotion of the public interest, convenience and necessity.

To develop policy that would advance the goal of diversity, including the promotion of greater women and minority participation in media, the Commission needs to conduct or commission research that illuminates the diversity of views available to local communities, the diversity of sources in local markets and the diversity of critical information needs of the American public, including women and minorities. This study is the first step, examining what prior research has been conducted with regard to how the public acquires critical information, how the media eco-system operates to provide critical information, and what barriers exist to participation.

For further information, contact Daniel Margolis, at (202) 418-1377. Press inquiries should be directed to Janice Wise, Media Bureau, at (202) 418-8165.

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