The FCC renewed the license of Fox-owned WUTB...
The FCC renewed the license of Fox-owned WUTB Baltimore, over the objections of a group (CD Aug 23 p14) that had asked the agency to deny the petition based on news reports of the News Corp. wiretapping scandal in the…
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U.K. According to the bureau order Monday granting the renewal (http://bit.ly/YAI29y), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics In Washington had submitted news clippings and other reports about the allegations against News Corp. as evidence the Fox parent company “and Rupert Murdoch, and by extension Fox, lack the character to hold a broadcast license under [FCC] rules and policies.” The bureau said news reports “are not the equivalent of statements supported by affidavits made by individuals with personal knowledge of the facts alleged” and that the accusations against Fox were still undecided and part of an ongoing investigation in another legal system. “The Commission is traditionally reluctant to consider unadjudicated, non-communications matters,” said the order. “We believe this approach is particularly appropriate where, as here, the primary misconduct that has been alleged did not take place in the United States."