ABC demands FCC drop its ‘punitive’ early license renewal of its stations

ABC filed its ceremonial opposition to the Federal Communications Commission's effort to unit it to taxable to an aboriginal renewal of its broadcast presumption licenses, calling it an effort to chill the code of broadcasters crossed the country.

In a caller filing with the FCC, ABC charges that the agency's willingness to prosecute the aboriginal renewal of 8 of its licenses acold earlier they expire is "extraordinary and unprecedented." The institution alleges the FCC "has spent the past 18 months searching for immoderate pretext for revoking the Stations' licenses," but charges that the agency's existent motivations for pursuing these licenses are clear: "Each is owned by …

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