New Jersey Citizens Fight to Be Heard/Fox Makes Case For WWOR

FOX MAKES CASE FOR WWOR
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
At the FCC license renewal forum on its public service to New Jersey, Fox-owned WWOR-TV New York(licensed to Secaucus, NJ) will offer up a laundry list of efforts to serve its community of license. The list includes its nightly 10 p.m. newscast; hourly news updates between 4 and 7 p.m., weekly public affairs shows New Jersey Now (formerly Ask Congress) and Real Talk; more than 20,000 PSA's over the past two years; sports--"free, over-the-air broadcasts of the New Jersey Nets and New York Giants"; its 110,000 square feet of office space in Secaucus; an apprenticeship program; and employees' participation in various events. WWOR even invokes synergy with a newspaper to make its case for local service, citing a partnership with local paper, The Record, on "extensive" political coverage.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6505785.html?rssid=193

* New Jersey Citizens Fight to Be Heard
Concerned citizens and public interest groups have petitioned the FCC to deny WWOR-TV 9’s broadcast license, asserting that the station hasn't lived up to its commitment to serve New Jersey. It’s one of the first public hearings the FCC has held to investigate a license renewal of a TV station in decades. As such, this could be a precedent-setting event, empowering other communities to hold hearings looking into their local TV and radio stations’ public service. The public owns the airwaves that radio and TV stations use to broadcast. However, Big Media companies have been permitted to use those airwaves for free — making millions of dollars doing so — under the obligation that they serve local communities.
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