Radio station tells FCC: Don’t ban ‘Redskins’

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Red Zebra Broadcasting told the Federal Communications Commission that it has no legal grounds to ban radio stations from using the name of the Washington Redskins.

Critics are using “meritless” arguments to urge the FCC not to reauthorize the license of local Washington sports radio station WWXX-FM, the company said. The request for the FCC to not renew the station’s license is “a crass misuse of the license renewal process,” it added, which would lead to “limitless expansion of the government’s censorial powers,” seemingly in violation of the Constitution. “While there is, in fact, a public debate over the use of the name ‘Redskins’ in association with the team, the commission cannot appropriately serve as the arbiter of that dispute,” the broadcaster claimed. “The commission’s task is not to pass judgment on the propriety of the name of Washington’s professional football team.”


Radio station tells FCC: Don’t ban ‘Redskins’