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Following Objections of Booker and Menendez, FCC Denies Permanent Waiver for WWOR-TV

December 21, 2020

John Heinis, Hudson County View

The senators noted that WWOR has flouted its responsibilities under the law and under its license to provide substantive local-news coverage.

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