<P> With the major demographic shifts occurring in the country in terms of the racial - ethnic composition of the population, the FCC has been criticized for ignoring the issue of decreasing racial - ethnic diversity of the media . This includes charges that the FCC has been watering down the limited affirmative action regulations it had on the books, including no longer requiring stations to make public their data on their minority staffing and hiring . In the second half of 2006, groups such as the National Hispanic Media Coalition, the National Latino Media Council, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the National Institute for Latino Policy, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and others held town hall meetings in California, New York and Texas on media diversity as its effects Latinos and minority communities . They documented widespread and deeply felt community concerns about the negative effects of media concentration and consolidation on racial - ethnic diversity in staffing and programming . At these Latino town hall meetings, the issue of the FCC's lax monitoring of obscene and pornographic material in Spanish - language radio and the lack of racial and national - origin diversity among Latino staff in Spanish - language television were other major themes . </P> <P> President Barack Obama appointed Mark Lloyd to the FCC in the newly created post of Associate General Counsel / Chief Diversity Officer . </P> <P> After being successful in opening the FM band as a superior alternative to the AM band by allowing colleges and other schools to start ten - watt LPFM stations, the FCC banned new ones around 1980 . </P> <P> Numerous controversies have surrounded the city of license concept as the internet has made it possible to broadcast a single signal to every owned station in the nation at once, particularly when Clear Channel, now IHeartMedia, became the largest FM broadcasting corporation in the US after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 became law - owning over 1200 stations at its peak . As part of its license to buy more radio stations, Clear Channel was forced to divest all TV stations . </P>

Which of the following is not a function of the federal communications commission