The FCC's decision not to pursue a petition to deny WTXF "FOX 29" in Philadelphia's license renewal hasn't stopped the Media and Democracy Project and Frequency Forward, from continuing the fight — this time in response to a Media Bureau docket focused on sports broadcasting practices and marketplace developments.
Originally fueled by freestyle dance music and extended remixes of pop hits, WQHT-FM in New York followed sibling "POWER 106" in Los Angeles in the early 1990s with a transition to Hip-Hop. Today, the "HOT 97" brand is where hip-hop lives for a generation of New Yorkers. Now, it is getting a television home.
A Sacramento federal district judge late Friday sided with DirecTV in a legal fight against the FCC and Department of Justice's respective approvals of Nexstar Media Group's game-changing $6.2 billion merger with TEGNA. It puts a pause on the full integration of TEGNA into Nexstar, for now.