Station Groups Appeal Media Bureau AT&T Finding to Full FCC
Nine station groups apparently affiliated with Sinclair asked the FCC to vacate a Media Bureau finding they violated per se good-faith negotiating standards in talks with AT&T (see 1911080036) or dismiss the MVPD's compliant with prejudice. In a docket 19-168…
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application for review Tuesday, Deerfield Media and the others said MB's position runs contrary to evidence that Duane Lammers of Max Retrans was negotiating for all the station groups, not just some, so AT&T did receive responses. The station groups said the bureau is threatening "outsized forfeitures" that could be "effectively a death sentence" for some of them. The amounts of the proposed penalties were redacted. AT&T didn't comment.