Howard Stirk Holdings (HSH) continued to urge the FCC...
Howard Stirk Holdings (HSH) continued to urge the FCC to grant it a waiver of joint shared agreement attribution rules, to acquire TV stations in connection with Sinclair’s acquisition of the Allbritton Television Group. HSH opposed a letter from Free…
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Press that cautioned the FCC against responding to HSH’s request. Without a thorough review of HSH and Sinclair’s financial relationship, “it would be impossible for the bureau to respond to HSH’s request,” Free Press said in its letter (http://bit.ly/1qFcERw). No misdirection by Free Press will alter the fact that HSH and its owner, Armstrong Williams, have records of public service and program control at WMMB-TV Myrtle Beach, S.C., and WEYI-TV Flint, Mich., “that properly support a waiver in the public interest here,” HSH said in a filing in docket 13-203 (http://bit.ly/1flgo3E). HSH sought the waiver after Sinclair proposed to end a proposed deal to let HSH buy WMMP-TV Charleston, S.C., because of changing FCC interpretation of the appropriateness of stations sharing resources (CD April 20 p20).