“With respect to Mr. Lloyd,” Genachowski wrote on Aug. 24, “his responsibilities in the Office of General Counsel track Congress’ directive … that the Agency ‘promote the policies and purposes of the Act favoring a diversity of voices’ and enhance opportunities for women, minorities, and small businesses to participate in the communications marketplace, including in the FCC’s auction and licensing processes.” Lloyd wrote in Prologue that the “communications marketplace” should change dramatically, with private broadcasters competing against a nationwide, well-financed public broadcasting corporation funded by the sale of the broadcast licenses Genachowski mentioned in his letter. "The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded at a substantial level ... Federal and regional [public] broadcast operations and local [public] stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded." “This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters,” wrote Lloyd. Full Article at Yid With Lid