The FCC should approve station transfers related to...
The FCC should approve station transfers related to Sinclair’s buy of Allbritton’s TV stations and ignore arguments against sharing agreements from the American Cable Association and public interest groups, said an ex parte letter (http://bit.ly/1bXo9fp) filed by shareholders of Sinclair…
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and Allbritton parent company Perpetual Corp. The groups’ arguments against the deal’s use of sharing arrangements are that the deal “should” violate FCC rules, said the filing. “There is no discernable difference between the [sharing agreements] involved in this proceeding and those approved by the Bureau as consistent with the rules in numerous previous cases,” said the filing. Though filings by Free Press have objected to the amount of control the sharing arrangements would give Sinclair over the involved stations, the agreement is within FCC rules, said the filing. The sharing agreements “ensure that Sinclair will not have sufficient management responsibility for the Stations to gain an attributable interest in them,” said the filing. “Free Press isn’t concerned with the FCC’s current rules because it wants to change those rules,” said the filing. The commission should approve the transactions, said the filing.