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Petersen asks FCC to revoke Arizona PBS' license

Depending on how much 'truth' is within this article, there might be a reason to fine the station or short-erm heir next license renewal.

Then again when the FCC writes rules regarding subjects such as this there is always the risk stations won't touch such content due to the hassle and risk involved. When you allow candidates to have a half-hour inteview and it produces 100 extra hours of paperwork, responding to attorneys and such, why even bother. You can make good in another area of community service that wins awards instead. When the FCC drops those rules, we as a nation are not better off.

They are not losing their license. This hysteria is amazing. Perhaps your doctor can prescribe a mood relaxer to lower the stress on your body or a session or two of therapy.
 
b-turner said:
Depending on how much 'truth' is within this article, there might be a reason to fine the station or short-erm heir next license renewal.

Then again when the FCC writes rules regarding subjects such as this there is always the risk stations won't touch such content due to the hassle and risk involved. When you allow candidates to have a half-hour inteview and it produces 100 extra hours of paperwork, responding to attorneys and such, why even bother. You can make good in another area of community service that wins awards instead. When the FCC drops those rules, we as a nation are not better off.

They are not losing their license. This hysteria is amazing. Perhaps your doctor can prescribe a mood relaxer to lower the stress on your body or a session or two of therapy.
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Because of who Warren Peterson (president of the Arizona State Senate and a Trump-supporting Republican), because of the unstated reasons for investigating public radio and TV that FCC Chairman Carr is doing, because of Kari lake's position in the Trump administration (even if it's legally question per an piece in the partisan Daily Kos yesterday), and because of President Trump's almost absolute opposition to public radio and television, My best guess is that this request has legs! Whether or not it leads to the ultimate revocation of KAET's license remains to be seen, but the public station now faces a fight that it would never have in any presidential administration since the invention of television, including that of President Richard Nixon whose behavior is closest to that of Donald Trump's.

www.dailykos.com

Why the hell is Kari Lake in charge of anything?

Remember how fun it was when the Trump administration played stupid games about who was in charge of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency? Well now it’s doing it all over again, but ...
www.dailykos.com

This is for those who wish to read the story I referenced about Kari lake above, though I should probably have placed it in the thread on VOA.
 
b-turner said:
Depending on how much 'truth' is within this article, there might be a reason to fine the station or short-erm heir next license renewal.
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I agree. Same with the FCC investigation on PBS stations airing commercials. That's an offense that leads to a fine. Not license revocation.

I'm not aware there are FCC rules for things like "election interference." It's about equal time. If the other candidate is offered time and refuses, the station can go ahead with the remaining candidate. You see the same thing with NPR. People in this administration are refusing to appear on NPR. They are offered the time, and they refuse. In fact, Kari Lake is one of the people who refused. Then they complain about bias in the media. That's crazy. By not showing up, they are creating the bias, and then they blame the media.

This is the reality TV approach to dealing with the opposition. You don't agree with them, so you vote them off the island. That's what contestants did on Survivor. No attempts at crisis resolution, or compromise as people do with real life. Instead, we vote them off the island, or send them to jail, or revoke their license. None of this stuff has any relation to reality.
 
This was one of the worst case scenarios when the recissions of the CPB took place. But that worst case scenario involved WETA-TV, WGBH-TV having their license questioned by the FCC because their content goes nationwide via PBS and they air newsworthy events involving the White House and Congress for Frontline and Newshour.

This one where Arizona PBS has their license questioned over the 2022 debates for Arizona Governor and their handling of that I didn’t think would happen the way it did.
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
This was one of the worst case scenarios when the recissions of the CPB took place. But that worst case scenario involved WETA-TV, WGBH-TV having their license questioned by the FCC because their content goes nationwide via PBS and they air newsworthy events involving the White House and Congress for Frontline and Newshour.

This one where Arizona PBS has their license questioned over the 2022 debates for Arizona Governor and their handling of that I didn’t think would happen the way it did.
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KAET Arizona PBS also produces West Coast segments for the PBS Newshour, so there's always a possibility this FCC may look at that as well.
 
www.kjzz.org

Did ASU try to influence Arizona PBS's choice to grant Katie Hobbs a solo interview in 2022?

It feels like ancient Arizona political history at this point, but back in 2022, then gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs refused to debate her then-opponent, Kari Lake. Now, nearly three years later, a new report in the Arizona Republic reveals some behind-the-scenes deliberations that led up...
www.kjzz.org www.kjzz.org

This but at that time Arizona PBS had to deal with stuff surrounding that states debate.
 
TheBigA said:
The FCC doesn't regulate PBS. But sure, this FCC will find any reason to investigate things it doesn't regulate.
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It regulates the stations that carry PBS content, though. While there is only limited FCC regulation of content, one area that is fairly well defined has to do with Equal Time.
 
davideduardo said:
It regulates the stations that carry PBS content, though. While there is only limited FCC regulation of content, one area that is fairly well defined has to do with Equal Time.
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The claim being made isn't equal time:

Republican Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Gilbert) is asking for the FCC to revoke Arizona PBS’ broadcast license on the basis of viewpoint discrimination and election interference.
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Has any station ever had its license revoked for equal time? What is the penalty for election interference? License revocation?
 
TheBigA said:
Has any station ever had its license revoked for equal time?
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There have been short term renewals and fines for political issue regulations and practices, such as failure to do Lowest Unit Rate and to provide opportunity for Equal Time. There have been very few full license revocations historically, but that can always change.

There are issues that have caused license revocation such as conviction for crimes (often forced sales, though), violation of trade practice laws (RKO the best example), illegal contests (Miami and Tucson cases) political bribes (Don Burden), profanity (WDKD, Kingstree, SC), use of influence in obtaining a license (WHDH TV and WHDH-TV (channel 5) - Wikipedia ), double billing (WFAB), broadcasting an illegal lottery (WOOK), and, of course, failing to file for renewal or failure to operate for an extended period.

Most stations exercise so much caution on political issue subjects that they protect themselves.
 
TheBigA said:
If a candidate is offered free time and declines, is the station liable for election interference?
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Not if the refusal is documented.

I've had this case several times in "hot" local elections. In one instance, we set the rules for all the qualifying candidates for governor (five of them) and invited each one to do a 30 minute interview. One candidate refused and filed a complaint. We submitted our "rules" which had gone by personal delivery and the candidate's response. That candidate, who got around 2% of the vote, claimed the right to be broadcast in morning drive, not in the Sunday space we gave all the others. The Commission told him to go pound sand.
 


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