and jsas were a favorite way of doing that. what we have said is that you have to have attributable ownership as you indicated. but that there is a waiver process to address exactly what you're talking about in rockford and, yes, there's an expedited process, and it's a situation, unfortunately, where the process took over and perverted the underlying rules and the basic concepts of ownership. >> and we can have that broader discussion when i have more time. my time has expired but i will say, i have heard a lot of concerns from local tv stations even in my district, and i hope that while we disagree with the rule, i hope that you make it very clear how they can apply for these waivers and how they can get this taken care of. mr. chairman, i will yield back. and thank you. >> thank you very much. on behalf of mr. mathieson and of myself, thank you, chairman wheeler, for your testimony this morning. we look forward to working with you in the future, and the hearing is now adjourned. >> c-span's newest book, a collection of inter

jsa's in the broadcast space actually opens up opportunities for minority and small operators. that's why it was supported by more than a dozen representative minority groups. secondly is we are going to move on the aws-3 auction to make sure that there are appropriate steps taken to assure that minorities can participate through waivers and other kinds of processes in that auction. thirdly, we are going to have -- and i should pause in all of these callout commissioner clyburn who has been the constant pusher on all of these issues. there will be designated entity rules for the incentive auction that will create bidding credits for appropriate designated entities. and i very much take to heart both as an institutional responsibility and as a personal responsibility to language that you read. >> so when the spectrum is auctioned, you are making a commitment that diversity will be an overriding concern of the commission? >> so what we want to do is to make sure that there are opportunities

and jsas were a favorite way of doing that. what we have said is that you have to have attributable ownership as you indicated. but that there is a waiver process to address exactly what you're talking about in rockford and, yes, there's an expedited process, and it's a situation, unfortunately, where the process took over and perverted the underlying rules and the basic concepts of ownership. >> and we can have that broader discussion when i have more time. my time has expired but i will say, i have heard a lot of concerns from local tv stations even in my district, and i hope that while we disagree with the rule, i hope that you make it very clear how they can apply for these waivers and how they can get this taken care of. mr. chairman, i will yield back. and thank you. >> thank you very much. on behalf of mr. mathieson and of myself, thank you, chairman wheeler, for your testimony this morning. we look forward to working with you in the future, and the hearing is now adjourned. ofc-span coverage commencement speeches contin

jsa's were a favorite way of doing that. what we have said is that you have to have attributable ownership, as you indicated. waivert there is a process to address exactly what you are talking about in rockford. yes, it is an expedited process. it is a situation, unfortunately, where the process the over and perverted underlying rules and the basic concepts of ownership. >> we can have that discussion when i have more time. i have had a lot of concerns from local tv stations in my district. while we disagree with the rule, i hope you make it very clear how they can apply for these waivers. i yield back. thank you. >> thank you very much. on behalf of mr. matheson and myself, thank you, chairman wheeler, for your testimony. we look forward to working with you. the hearing is now adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> part of a "washington journal " discussion on the middle east respiratory system, known as mers. see the whole program at c-