The Federal Communications Commission wants to know the TV habits of the nation’s largest ethnic minority.
The commission plans to conduct a study of the relationships among Hispanic television station ownership, Hispanic-oriented programming and Hispanic television viewing, it said in a release.
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According to 2012 Census data, 17 percent of the total U.S. population — or 53 million people — are of Hispanic origin.
The study is the FCC’s first systematic examination of the Hispanic television market.