Media Bureau's Entercom Renewals 'a Coordinated Attempt' to 'Avoid Responsibilty'
The FCC Media Bureau's approval of the renewal of five Entercom stations shortly after Media Action Center sought to include them in the ongoing case against the renewal of Entercom's KDND(FM) Sacramento (see 1701190047) is “rotten," said Media Action Center…
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Director Sue Wilson in an email. “This was a coordinated attempt to help Entercom avoid responsibility, by the Media Bureau, by the Enforcement Bureau, and possibly by Entercom itself,” Wilson said. Entercom and the FCC didn't comment. The Enforcement Bureau argued in an opposition filing posted online Thursday that the Media Action Center's request was “moot.” It's “the abdication of compliance oversight and control endemic to the entire local Sacramento cluster that is now moot,” Wilson said.