NEWS                                                                             July 30, 1998

                 FCC CHAIRMAN APPLAUDS  MEDIA COMPANIES'
                      COMMITMENT TO EEO PRINCIPLES
                                    
     FCC Chairman William Kennard today applauded several television networks, radio
and television station owners and cable companies for making commitments to abide by
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) principles in their job recruitment efforts.

     Kennard said, "These leading media companies know that reaching out and finding
talented men and women of all colors to run their companies is good policy and good
business. It's the right thing to do - right for them, right for their communities and right for
the country." Kennard said these companies "have stated their commitment to abide by EEO
principles whether required by law to do so or not." The companies are:

     ABC;  CBS;  Cablevision Systems;  Capstar Broadcasting;  
Chancellor Media Corporation; Clear Channel Communications;  
Comcast Cable Communications;  Cox Broadcasting;  Fox;  Jacor Communications;  
Lin Television Corporation; Media One;  NBC;  Tele-Communications, inc.
Time Warner;  Tribune Broadcasting;  and USA Broadcasting.

     Kennard said the FCC has asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals (D.C. Circuit) to
rehear a decision by a three-judge panel in the Lutheran Church v. FCC case, which he said,
if not reversed, would do away with FCC rules currently in place that require television and
radio broadcasters to recruit minority job applicants.

     He said, "For nearly 30 years, the FCC rules being challenged in court have promoted
inclusion in broadcast station employment by requiring broadcasters to cast their recruiting net
widely. We know the rules work. In 1971, three years after the FCC's EEO rules began,
minorities constituted only 9.1% of full-time broadcast employees, and women 23.3%.  Last
year, minorities constituted 19.9% and women 40.8% of the broadcast work force."

     Kennard said, "The principle at stake is opportunity for all people in the fastest
growing economic sector in the country. This is why I am proud that these major media
companies have agreed that equal opportunity efforts will always be part of their companies
policies."
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