FCC Urges Appeals Court to Toss Challenges to Nexstar-Tegna Deal

FCC Urges Appeals Court to Toss Challenges to Nexstar-Tegna Deal

`Under binding Circuit precedent, this Court lacks jurisdiction to review an order issued by the Commission’s staff,’ the regulator said

Strange Bedfellows Combine to Attempt to Block New Media Merger

Conservatives and progressives unite in rare opposition to block Nexstar-Tegna media merger.

Carr says approval of Nexstar-Tegna merger not final

Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, stressed in a recent letter to lawmakers that the FCC Media Bureau’s approval of the Nexstar-Tegna merger is “not a final action by the full Commission.” The April 13 letter, published by the agency on Tuesday, suggested that the full commission could consider reversing the bureau’s March 19 decision to greenlight the major broadcasting deal. By the end of that month, Sens. Ted Cru…

FCC Chairman: Appeal filed challenging Media Bureau's approval of Nexstar-TEGNA deal

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr participates in a panel discussion at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference. (Photo by Gage Skidmore) A broadband industry group has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that requests the agency’s three sitting commissioners to review a March order from the Media Bureau approving Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion acquisition of TEGNA. The petition was noted in a letter sent to f…

Forbes Blasts Opponents of Nexstar/Tegna Merger

Arguments that the Nexstar/Tegna deal would give the combined company too much power over local news have "the musty smell of 1985, or even 1955," said Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Media, in a column for Fox News published Monday...

Former GOP Presidential Hopeful Steve Forbes Hammers Critics of the Nexstar-TEGNA Merger

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