Sec. 73.1202  Retention of letters received from the public.

    (a) All written comments and suggestions received from the public by 
licensees of commercial AM, FM, and TV broadcast stations regarding 
operation of their station shall be maintained in the local public 
inspection file, unless the letter writer has requested that the letter 
not be made public or when the licensee feels that it should be excluded 
from public inspection because of the nature of its content, such as a 
defamatory or obscene letter.
    (1) Letters shall be retained in the local public inspection file 
for three years from the date on which they are received by the 
licensee.

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    (2) Letters received by TV licensees only shall be placed in one of 
the following separated subject categories: programming or non-
programming. If comments in a letter relate to both categories, the 
licensee shall file it under the category to which the writer has given 
the greater attention.

[ 44 FR 38846 , July 3, 1979, as amended at  46 FR 26247 , May 11, 1981;  52 FR 25867 , July 9, 1987]