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Breaking - 1060 AM Sold - Flipping to Catholic Programming
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NERW tweets new calls for WBIX when it switched to all Catholic will be WQOM
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Laurence Glavin
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N1WVQ said:
Isn't there a "holy city" in Iran called Qum? Kind of close.
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MRBIboredop said:
My favorite part is the use of "He/She"...Paul the Octopus says the manager WILL BE MALE.
The FCC and the EEOC get kind of PO'd when you are not P.C., and a mis-worded advertisement would certainly raise some examiners eyebrows down in Washington.
Hey Paul has retired from his sports book gig, maybe he can try his hand at radio. With all the hats that job description has the candidate wearing, the new hire is going to need 8 arms to juggle the work load.
Now the requirement to be a good catholic.... hmmmm any lawyers on the board care to chime in?
Hey Paul has retired from his sports book gig, maybe he can try his hand at radio. With all the hats that job description has the candidate wearing, the new hire is going to need 8 arms to juggle the work load.
Now the requirement to be a good catholic.... hmmmm any lawyers on the board care to chime in?
Laurence Glavin said:
If I'm not mistaken, the spelling of that city actually IS: "QOM".
A Catholic station whose calls spell out the name of an Islamic Holy City.....I find that rather amusing.
Dighton Rockhead said:
Iranian is written in a script borrowed from Arabic; short vowels are not written, so the apelling of the city is "qm". Moreover, "q" here is the Arabic letter qaf, which represents a sound formed at the back of the mouth; and in Iranian it is voiced, so it is closer to "g" than to "k", although in fact it sounds not much like either. It is sometimes transliterated as "gh".
4CX1000A said:
No, they cannot...by law.
However:
1.) Why would anyone want to work for a place that is opposed to their views?
2.) Like most companies, there find a way to get around the law. i.e...do you have to be black to work at Radio One? Do you have to be Catholic to work at Holy Family Radio? Do you have to be a liberal to work at WWZN?
The answer to the above is no...but you can imagine how they find a way around it.
There must be an exemption for religious groups. Either that or these are the dumbest radio managers on the planet ( Except for Coffee Boy and the Empress )
http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/religion.html#_Toc203359502
D. Bona Fide Occupational Qualification
Title VII permits employers to hire and employ employees on the basis of religion if religion is “a bona fide occupational qualification [“BFOQ”] reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise.”[68] Religious organizations do not typically need to rely on this BFOQ defense, however, because the “religious organization” exception in Title VII permits them to prefer their co-religionists. See supra § I-C. It is well settled that for employers that are not religious organizations and therefore seek to rely on the BFOQ defense to justify a religious preference, the defense is a narrow one and can rarely be successfully invoked.[69]
http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/religion.html#_Toc203359502
D. Bona Fide Occupational Qualification
Title VII permits employers to hire and employ employees on the basis of religion if religion is “a bona fide occupational qualification [“BFOQ”] reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise.”[68] Religious organizations do not typically need to rely on this BFOQ defense, however, because the “religious organization” exception in Title VII permits them to prefer their co-religionists. See supra § I-C. It is well settled that for employers that are not religious organizations and therefore seek to rely on the BFOQ defense to justify a religious preference, the defense is a narrow one and can rarely be successfully invoked.[69]
MRBIboredop said:
Salem had a lawsuit back in the late 70's when an engineer claimed he wasn't hired because he wasn't a "co-religionist". They lost. (I believe it went to the Supreme Court.)
Most of the jobs at a radio station (Sales, secretarial, traffic, engineering, board-op), do not require someone to be that religion in order to do the job.
I could see maybe someone doing a show on "instituting Catholic teaching in one's daily life" might require choosing someone who is Catholic.
But since most of the programming for stations such as these are imported from somewhere else, this probably doesn't apply.
Massachusetts laws against discrimination around 1988, against sexual orientation and sex-discrimination, specifically EXCLUDES religious organizations. Result on the latter (sex-discrimination): Preists are still all male. - So, if WQOM-1060 wants to have all-Catholic viewpoints on the air, they are safe federally and state. - The case of Salem may have been different, as the stations were/are not owned by religious organization(s).
>>So, if WQOM-1060 wants to have all-Catholic viewpoints on the air
I doubt it will come back but imagine if we had the wonderful Fairness Doctrine...atheists,
Protestants, Muslims etc. demand equal time on 1060. An anti-black group demands time
on WILD. A tea party group demands to be heard on WWZN. Wouldn't happen but...
I doubt it will come back but imagine if we had the wonderful Fairness Doctrine...atheists,
Protestants, Muslims etc. demand equal time on 1060. An anti-black group demands time
on WILD. A tea party group demands to be heard on WWZN. Wouldn't happen but...
4CX1000A said:
It turns out that there is a specific exemption in the FCC rules (73.2080): "Religious radio broadcasters may establish religious belief or affiliation as a job qualification for all station employees."
It goes on to say: "For purposes of this rule, a religious broadcaster is a licensee which is, or is closely affiliated with, a church, synagogue, or other religious entity, including a subsidiary of such an entity." That would exclude Salem, which I believe is a publicly traded company, but probably includes Holy Family.
JIBGUY said:
Yes, but it is not a blanket exclusion. The exclusion states that you CAN hire on the basis of religion, if religion is a bonafide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the operation of a particular business or enterprise.
So, for an engineer, receptionist, salesperson, board op, traffic, etc.....religion is not a bona fide qualification. The jobs can be done by someone of any religion. That's why Salem lost their case.
Someone could probably make the case that for programming content and decisions. it IS a requirement.
raccoonradio said:
That's not how the Fairness Doctrine worked. You don't get free/equal time simply because you disagree with another's opinion.
4CX1000A said:
The quoted post above SHOULD have been the end of this sub-thread. What Holy Family does is legal in Mass, legal in the US, and fully conforms to FCC regulations. Too bad that people keep posting without reading what others have written. Puts them in the position of fighting with straw men. Often, as is the case here, someone has already posted the whole story.
Also, please don't accuse me of defending Holy Family. I do not defend religious fanatics of ANY religion--in any country. But the courts and the Congress and the FCC have spoken on this matter. Regardless of what I or anyone else wishes they had decided, the issue has been settled for at least five years and we can't do anything about it.
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