The FCC Media Bureau denied Maricopa County Community...

The FCC Media Bureau denied Maricopa County Community College District’s request for a waiver of the commission’s underwriting rules. Maricopa requested the waiver to adopt measures to address the economic challenges of decreased funding from federal and state sources, the bureau said in a letter to Maricopa (http://bit.ly/1sScCGQ). The stated purposes for the waiver “are not so unique and unusual in itself as to warrant a waiver of the underwriting rules and policies,” it said. “If Maricopa wishes to petition for a change in the rule, the appropriate vehicle would be a petition for rulemaking, not a waiver request.”