
Soo Kim, managing partner of Standard General, took to the online op-ed pages of Newsweek to accuse the Federal Communications Commission of an “unaccountable power grab.”
Kim was referring to the decision by the FCC’s Media Bureau to designate Standard General’s $8.6 billion deal to purchase Tegna TV stations and other assets to an FCC administrative law judge, a move that traditionally has resulted in such deals being abandoned.