[BC] Format control by landlords

[Barry Mishkind]

There is at least one instance of something more recent, although I 
do not know exactly how it turned out.

There was a situation a couple of years back about an LA station that 
tried to use a lease to control the format of another station. 
Whether it was run through the FCC, the courts, or both, I do not recall.

Perhaps someone knows more about the case.  I might have the time to 
search for the original document that alerted me to the situation.

barry

At 05:37 AM 10/7/2007, Rich Wood wrote
>------ At 03:55 PM 10/6/2007, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote: -------
>
>>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.