The licensee of a small Anchorage TV station asked the...
The licensee of a small Anchorage TV station asked the FCC to deny applications to transfer the licenses of two other Alaskan TV station and several translator stations to General Communications Inc. (GCI), the local cable operator. Fireweed Communications’ KYES-TV…
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Anchorage said the transaction poses a “threat to democracy in Alaska.” According to FCC filings, a GCI affiliate agreed to buy the stations from an affiliate of Media News Group in January (http://bit.ly/WVKnrw). The petition to deny also seeks to block GCI’s acquisition of some commercial cellular licenses from Alaska Communications Systems, it said (http://bit.ly/VPMDUu). “We request the public be given a chance to testify on the license transfers at public hearings in various places in Alaska,” the petition said. “Such a high degree of control requires that the public be encouraged to set their ideas into the record,” the petition said. A spokesman for GCI didn’t immediately respond to our query.