FCC Schedules Public Forum on WWOR License Renewal

FCC SCHEDULES PUBLIC FORUM ON WWOR LICENSE RENEWAL
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
In an unusual move, the Federal Communications Commission is holding a public forum on whether WWOR-TV should be able to retain its TV-station license. In a notice late Friday, with all of the commissioners across the country in Seattle for another public hearing on media ownership, the FCC's Media Bureau said it would let the public weigh in and added that it had not yet decided whether the station, owned by News Corp., had "failed to provide a program service and adequately meet the needs of its northern New Jersey viewers." The FCC forum is scheduled for the evening of Nov. 28 at the Paul Robeson Campus Center on Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. in Newark, N.J. The hearing was promised after the issue was raised by media consolidation critic Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) in a hearing, and later in a private meeting with FCC chairman Kevin Martin.
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* FCC announcement:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-278062A1.doc