Media Activists Ask FCC to Reconsider Tribune Waivers

MEDIA ACTIVISTS ASK FCC TO RECONSIDER TRIBUNE WAIVERS
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The United Church of Christ and the Media Alliance asked the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its decision to grant the transfer of control of Tribune's TV assets to investor Sam Zell and Tribune shareholders, as well as its decision to renew the license of Tribune's KTLA Los Angeles, saying that the commission unfairly ignored its challenges to the sale and that KTLA waiver was arbitrary and capricious, granted without a request and without a proper showing of fact. In a petition for reconsideration filed Dec. 31 at the FCC, the UCC and the Media Alliance argued that the commission improperly denied standing to the groups in their challenges to the transfer of licenses in Hartford, Conn.; Los Angeles; and Chicago. They are also challenging the FCC's grant of a permanent waiver, which they said Tribune didn't even ask for, to own both the Chicago Tribune newspaper and Tribune's broadcast properties in Chicago.
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