Petition to Oppose Renewal of Baltimore TV Licenses

[Peter Parker]

Petition to FCC opposes Baltimore TV station license renewals, citing ownership ties to Sinclair Broadcast

A Columbia man has filed a petition with federal regulators alleging Sinclair Broadcast Group has violated TV station ownership rules and asking the government to deny licenses for three Baltimore …

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I suspect that sinclair and the other companies will prevail here but this situation has created discussion here before and i thought that some of you might want to know about this development.

 

[Juan]

Unless they can prove a crime occured...

 

[NYDutch]

Unless they can prove a crime occured...

The stations either meet the FCC license renewal requirements or they don't. There doesn't need to be anything criminal involved.

 

[Juan]

Again unless a crime occured they wont lose a license... i think wor ( now wwor) was the last one revoked

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[Peter Parker]

I am not sure that it is necessary to prov e criminality to challenge a license. That certainly would doit but it is not the only thing that might precipitate a loss of license.

Maybe someone more familair with that process coud explain it better than I ever could.

 

[Juan]

You can challange all day long...its a long tough road to revocation...1st amendment rights come into play

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[Juan]

I am not sure that it is necessary to prov e criminality to challenge a license. That certainly would doit but it is not the only thing that might precipitate a loss of license.

Maybe someone more familair with that process coud explain it better than I ever could.

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