Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
January 23, 2008
DA 08-149
Mr. John Arndt
1008 North 64th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19151
Re:   Radio One Licenses, LLC
Dear Mr. Arndt:
 This is in response to your January 31, 2006, complaint, in which you alleged that 
numerous websites of broadcast stations licensed to Radio One Licenses, LLC (“Radio One”), 
contained links to Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) public file reports that were 
outdated.1 Radio One owns and/or operates 70 broadcast stations located in 22 markets in the 
United States.  You reported in your complaint that the EEO public file reports accessible on the
Radio One station websites were not current: none was for a year later than 2004. 
 The Commission’s rules require at 47 C.F.R. § 73.2080(c)(6) that each broadcast 
station place its EEO public file report annually in the station’s public file, and on its website if it 
has one, on the anniversary of the date the station is due to file its renewal application. The 
Commission’s initial investigation of your complaint revealed that the Radio One station 
websites each contained a common link to EEO reports which took the user to the Radio One 
corporate site.  Although the links all worked, as you noted in the complaint, none of the posted 
reports on that central corporate site was for 2005.  However, Radio One updated its individual 
station websites sometime after the Commission’s initial investigation and placed its individual 
2005 public file reports for each station on its website.2  Radio One has since posted the 2006 
and 2007 reports on each station website.
  Notwithstanding Radio One’s subsequent elimination of these deficiencies, we do not
excuse its previous failure to have properly posted its current reports. We believe that Radio 
One is now aware of its obligation under our public file reporting rules, as evidenced by the 
  
1 The complaint consisted of an electronic communication (e-mail) dated January 31, 2006, from John Arndt of 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, addressed to Mary Beth Murphy, Chief of the Policy Division, Media Bureau, of the 
Federal Communications Commission.
2 The exact date that Radio One replaced the links to its central site with its EEO reports for 2005 on its station 
websites is unknown.  Radio One has since placed its 2006 and 2007 reports, as appropriate, on its broadcast station 
websites.  However, Radio One’s corporate website continues to provide links to out-of-date reports. Although this 
is not a violation of our rules because the individual station websites are up-to-date, to avoid confusion we urge 
Radio One to either replace the out-of-date reports from its corporate website with current ones, or provide links on 
that site to the sites of its stations containing the current reports.  See 47 C.F.R.§ 73.2080(c)(6)
presence of its 2005, and later its 2006 and 2007, reports on the licensee’s station websites.  
While we cannot excuse Radio One’s failure during 2005 to have posted its current reports for its 
broadcast stations, under the circumstances, we exercise our prosecutorial discretion and decline 
to take further action in this matter. Accordingly, your complaint is hereby dismissed.
 We appreciate your bringing this matter to our attention.  We expect that Radio One 
will exercise appropriate care to ensure that such violations are not repeated.
Sincerely, 
Lewis C. Pulley
Assistant Chief, Policy Division
Media Bureau
cc: John W. Jones, Esq.
 Radio One Licenses, LLC
5900 Princess Garden Parkway
Lanham, Maryland 20706