Top Republicans on FCC oversight committees say the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau decision to designate the Standard General-Tegna deal for hearing before an administrative law judge was unfair and a violation of a congressional charge to “promote competition and reduce regulation.”
They want the FCC to answer a host of questions related to the decision, importantly why the order was on delegated authority to the Media Bureau rather than the full commission, as well as “how retransmission-consent rates are a part of reviewing whether a license transfer is in the public interest” and how “labor relations are a part of reviewing whether a license transfer is in the public interest.”
