How to deal with FUX News

[FreakinDJ]

Found a few interesting things while searching today

Contrary to what some people might think they are required to maintain a FCC license

http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2009/DA-09-1247A1.html

EACH email or FAX to an affiliate (actual broadcaster, not the network) ask that the comment be placed in their "FCC Public File." They are required to comply with your request.

This "Public File" is reviewed by the FCC each time that station's license is up for renewal. Not getting a license renewed means the station is worthless.

Give your opinion that the broadcaster is "Not acting in the public interest" and give detailed reasoning.

We can specifically start slamming each affiliate under the FCC "Equal Time Rule."

http://www.fcc.gov/eb/broadcast/pif.html

and please read this complaint action

Journalists petition FCC to challenge Fox-13 license renewal

The petition also charges WTVT violated federal rules about keeping viewer complaints and comments on file. The reporters say no communication regarding the dispute over the hormone story was found in the files even though there were several examples of letters that should have been there, they said.

http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2005/01/03/daily9.html

But they best part is in the FCC.Gov file

•Make available to persons within its geographic service area, by mail upon telephone request, photocopies of documents in the file, excluding the political file, and the station must pay postage;


•Mail the most recent version of "The Public and Broadcasting" to any member of the public who requests a copy; and

I smell BBQ........

So if we were to flood them with complaint letters and then request for photocopies of files we could readily see if they are VIOLATING FCC rules by not adding the complaints to the file.

[madinmaryland]

1. Those are rules for over the air broadcast channels. That does not

include cable channels.

[FreakinDJ]

2. Here is FUX's NETWORKS FCC Aplication

being this petition went all the way up to the Supreme Court and countless afiliates signed on as "Co-Defendants" in the case that may not be as true as you think

http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2009/DA-09-1247A1.html

and here is from the FCC website

TELEVISION AND CABLE

The Commission enforces regulations that were designed to ensure competition among cable companies, satellite companies and other entities that offer video programming services to the general public. This includes issues such as, mandatory carriage of television broadcast signals, commercial leased access, program access, over-the-air reception devices, open video systems, commercial availability of set-top boxes and the accessibility of closed captioning and video description on television programming.

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/broadcast.html

We can complain amongst ourselves all we want.. but until we show them we are serious about cleaning up the "Dis-Information Propaganda Channels" it will continue

[madinmaryland]

4. That is for WWOR-TV, out of Secaucus, NJ and their application for that

specific television station. WWOR-TV is on the Fox Television Network and is owned by News Corporation (Murdoch's company).

Am I missing something?

According to the FCC website, the FCC is not authorized to censor programming.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. !!

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