The nation’s largest single licensee of broadcast television stations — even when subtracting its “hold separate” subsidiary TEGNA — has urged the FCC to move ahead with its party-line approval of replacing the 39% national television ownership reach limit with a case-by-case look at all future transactions.
Why? The parties behind a Petition for Stay Pending Judicial Review “largely parrot the baseless arguments raised by the state cable associations’ petition,” says Nexstar Media Group‘s counsel on the matter, Kathleen Kirby of Wiley Law.
