NEW YORK—Standard General has filed a reply brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, urging the court to “compel the FCC to follow its own procedural norms by putting the deal to a vote.”
“The Commission has chosen to kill a transaction that would create the largest minority-owned, female-led broadcast-television company in U.S. history,” the brief said. “It knows, and never disputes, that the process it has permitted its Media Bureau to impose cannot produce a final FCC decision before the transaction’s irreplaceable financing expires on May 22. The only logical explanation is that the FCC is content to let the Bureau destroy the deal—inexplicably preventing unprecedented gains in diversity.”
