Social Science Research Council

Thank you for your interest in the Radio Localism Study dataset.

The SSRC Data Consortium for Media and Communications Policy is releasing an FCC-collected dataset on the link between media ownership and the provision of certain kinds of radio content, including local news and public affairs. The data is part of the Federal Communications Commission’s response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by The Institute for Public Representation (Georgetown University) in August 2006. The request asked for studies, contracts, and data relevant to the FCC’s localism and media ownership proceedings. In response, the FCC released data relating to a study on radio broadcast localism which was never completed.

As a way of gauging the value of this kind of data to the research community, we ask that you provide the information requested below. This is for our own internal records and will not be disclosed publicly.

Please note that this is a large dataset (27 Mb zipped) in .mdb Access Database format.

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