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Public TV and radio stations will remain commercial-free, as a federal appeals court has upheld the federal ban on political advertising on such stations.
In an 8-3 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco ruled that the federal ban that prohibited ads for political candidates or public issues paid for by for-profit companies was constitutional.
The Minority Television Project, a nonprofit California corporation that operated public station KMTP-TV in San Francisco brought the case when it was fined $10,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for airing promotional messages from State Farm, Chevrolet and other companies.
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