For nearly 2 1/2 years, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group has been fighting the license renewal of a Fox Television Stations property in Philadelphia, on the grounds that it aired news reports during the 2020 U.S. presidential election cycle that was false or misleading. The FCC declined to act on the petition. Yet, that hasn’t stopped the Media and Democracy Project and another organization, Frequency Forward, from continuing the fight — this time in response to a Media Bureau docket focused on sports broadcasting practices and marketplace developments.
