A federal court rejected a lawsuit against the FCC seeking to overturn the agency’s decision to effectively raise the limit on the number of local television stations a company can own.
Free Press is disappointed that this panel of judges refused to rule on the FCC’s phony math and poor excuses for the obsolete and harmful UHF discount.
The questionable maneuvers that triggered the FCC’s slow-down of the Sinclair-Tribune deal represent only a fraction of the regulatory tricks Sinclair uses.
Large ISPs are trying to control the internet, restrict the free flow of information and restore their historical role of for-profit arbiter of what we can and cannot read, watch or hear.
Sinclair Broadcast Group tried to placate federal regulators but the FCC still voted unanimously to have a judge review the company's deal to buy Tribune Media.