[BC] Station for Sale

[Rich Wood]

------ At 03:55 PM 10/6/2007, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote: -------

>And Rich, I think with a good lawyer someone could argue Citadel is
>impeeding their business.. and apparently, a friend tells me.. a violation
>of communications law.

I believe there was a case quite a while ago where a renting station 
was limited to certain formats. As I recall the FCC considered it 
outside programming control of the renting station and prohibited it. 
It was very much like the FCC's ruling on syndication contracts that 
forced the station to blindly obey the directives of the syndicator. 
The fact that the station had many other options didn't matter.

Of course, that was when the FCC was really the FCC. Their reasoning 
was that the station was licensed to that location and, since others 
were renting there, any control of content was prohibited. They 
likened it to a common carrier. Someone may remember the situation. 
I've forgotten which station it was. I think it was in the late 70s.

Rich