The person citing that realized that he was on his way to that, but didn’t apparently have anything to add. So he disappeared.
There are financial, tax, and morality reasons why things get called religious, in many contexts in our society, regardless of the FCC. And many reasons why you should not call something that when it is not, regardless of the current iteration of the FCC.
I’m thinking that if they are going OOB at the end of the year they are just saying fuck it and taking the money.
Other than specific EEO things (a religious broadcaster can discriminate in hiring for religious reasons) they don’t really. Religious broadcasters get lumped in with other non-commercial or educational broadcasters. They’re not treated separately, and there aren’t special provisions for religious broadcasts that don’t exist for nonreligious broadcasts.