Sinclair Seeks Dismissal of Petition for Early License Renewal
A petition to terminate the FCC Media Bureau’s investigation of Sinclair Broadcast and to require early Sinclair station renewal filings should be rejected for a lack of standing, said Sinclair in an undocketed opposition filing posted Friday. The petition, apparently…
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from a viewer of Sinclair’s station WBFF Baltimore named Ihor Gawdiak, doesn’t appear to be available on the FCC’s electronic comment filing system, and Gawdiak didn’t respond to a request for comment. A Media Bureau letter requesting information from Sinclair for the investigation was only made public inadvertently, said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai (see 1907100068). “Mr. Gawdiak has no authority to dictate to the Media Bureau how it may conduct its investigations,” Sinclair said. Gawdiak’s petition doesn’t demonstrate why he should have the standing to make such a request, Sinclair said, so the petition should "be promptly dismissed or denied.”