EMT Misunderstands FCC Authority, Says Enforcement Bureau
Arguments from Entertainment Media Trust and its trustee Dennis Watkins that the broadcaster’s license hearing should be stayed to allow licenses to be sold as part of a bankruptcy proceeding “fundamentally misunderstand” the FCC has “exclusive authority” over what happens…
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to EMT’s stations, the Enforcement Bureau said in a docket 19-156 reply posted Friday (see 1909240040). The hearing “is an exercise of the Commission’s fundamental and exclusive regulatory authority to determine EMT’ s fitness to hold a Commission license,” the bureau said. “It is not, as he characterizes it, a ‘forfeiture’ proceeding in which the Commission’s goal is to seize something to which EMT rightfully holds title.” Administrative Law Judge Jane Halprin should deny the stay request, the EB said.