Unpaid Regulatory Fees Delay Withdrawal of EMT Bankruptcy Trustee
The withdrawal of Entertainment Media Trust’s bankruptcy trustee from the broadcaster's license hearing proceeding is being held up by EMT’s unpaid regulatory fees, trustee Donald Samson said in a status report posted in FCC docket 19-156 Wednesday. With the bankruptcy…
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proceedings ended by EMT, Samson filed an application to transfer EMT’s licenses back to the broadcaster, but action on the application “is being withheld due to a ‘red light’ for unpaid regulatory fees owed by EMT,” the filing said. Samson is “working with the Media Bureau staff, many of whom were on extended leave over the holidays, to allow the application to be processed expeditiously and without payment of the fees.”