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King Kong, Scripps Battle on Channel Swap

King Kong Broadcasting’s opposition to E.W. Scripps' channel substitution request in Las Vegas “contravenes KGNG’s secondary regulatory status” as a low-power television station (see 2107270065) and asks the FCC to “apply a hierarchy of protection of low power television stations…

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depending on the relative value of programming,” replied Scripps in docket 21-221. “In neither the Petition, nor its Comments, nor its Reply Comments, did Scripps provide any engineering explanation whatsoever for why it is seeking to move KTNV-TV to Channel 26,” said King Kong this week. “Scripps must be unnecessarily targeting KGNG-LD as a means of removing a strong competitor -- especially for ethnic minority audiences and advertisers.”