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NBC Universal took its legal battle against TV Azteca to the FCC,...

NBC Universal took its legal battle against TV Azteca to the FCC, filing a 38-page informal objection to renewing the license of an Azteca America affiliate Pappas Telecasting owns. The FCC shouldn’t renew KAZA-TV Avalon, Cal., because TV Azteca…

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executives “lack the character qualifications” to run an American station, NBCU said in the filing, citing legal complaints against Azteca in the U.S. and Mexico. TV Azteca owns a large enough stake in the station for character qualifications to apply, NBCU said -- a claim Pappas disputes. NBCU and TV Azteca are litigating a breach of contract dispute in U.S. Dist. Court, Miami (CD Oct 6 p9). NBCU’s FCC filing raises many of the same claims raised in the Fla. lawsuit. It also cites SEC suits filed against TV Azteca executives. The SEC settled that lawsuit several weeks ago (CD Sept 18 p8).