Fla. GOP Lawmakers Urge FCC Not to Reject Radio Sale
Senate Commerce Committee member Rick Scott and two other Florida Republicans urged the FCC Thursday to reject an April push by members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to potentially block WSUA Broadcasting’s pending sale of Spanish-language WSUA (AM) Miami and…
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FM translator W232DX to America CV. CHC members contend the transfer could result in further misinformation. They claim America CV silences “progressive voices” at the broadcaster. “Preventing the assignment of the radio station licenses based on its anticipated” programming “likely would violate the First Amendment,” said Scott, Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart in a letter to acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel: "Reject any politicization of the FCC, and engage the application on its merits alone.” It’s “laughable that left-leaning partisans have found reason to object to the sale of one radio station” given “the overwhelming predominance of left-leaning bias in print, cable, and broadcast media,” they said. The FCC didn’t comment Friday.