Media Action Center is a nonprofit group of concerned residents throughout the United States led by former Emmy-winning broadcaster turned media democracy advocate Sue Wilson. We successfully influence policy at the Federal Communications Commission and at local US TV and Radio stations to ensure We the People are truly served by Our publicly owned airwaves. MAC joined Frequency Forward in filing a Motion to Intervene in ABC/Disney v FCC to ensure viewers, who own the Public Airwaves and whose rights are paramount, has a seat at the table. MAC also joined a current Petition to Deny the broadcast licenses of DISNEY ABC at the FCC. In 2017, MAC forced Entercom to give up its $13.5 million license to KDND for killing a woman in a radio water drinking stunt. That same year MAC empowered local listeners across the country to take Alex Jones off their local radio dials. In 2000, we informed the Supreme Court in FCC v Prometheus Radio that multiple local TV stations with one corporate owner merely duplicate news stories on all its stations; a similar methodology is currently being used in legal cases trying to prevent the Nexstar/TEGNA merger.

Find full journalistic coverage of all this plus Sinclair Broadcasting's shell game and other public interest media issues at SueWilsonReports.com. See also Wilson's documentary "Broadcast Blues" which is more relevant today than when it premiered in 2009. Broadcast Blues.

URGENT ACTION: SAVE LOCAL TV NEWS

Friends, it's time to speak up LOUDLY to the FCC to Save Local TV News! They are taking comments from the public about any broadcast regulations we think should be changed. It sounds innocuous. BUT... industry is aiming to destroy local TV news. 

ACTION: 

1. READ the story "Trump's FCC on Precipice of Abolishing All Limits on Corporate Ownership of Local TV Stations" on BradBlog.com.

"In addition to licensing two or more stations in many major markets, running the same stories on each, they also run websites to go with them. Those websites are also duplicative. Here, for example, are screenshots taken recently at the same moment on Nexstar's two Little Rock, Arkansas news stations, channel 16, a FOX affiliate and Channel 4, the local NBC affiliate. Both are reporting the exact same stories." 

 

                   

The time to fight back is NOW, though time is short. There are two ways to do so, even if we don't have control of some 200 television stations to help us get the word out.


MORE DIFFICULT, BUT MORE EFFECTIVE WAY: File an Official Comment with the FCC by 11:59PM EDT Monday, April 28, 2025. (Comments made after that date will still be received by the FCC but will not have legal standing for further action.)

1.   Go to the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System, Fill out all starred categories. Non-starred categories are optional.

2.    In the first section, where it reads "Proceeding(s): Select the FCC Proceeding(s) to which your filing refers write 25-133. Then click on "In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete".

3.    Also required is your name and address and "Type of filing." Under "Type of Filing" choose "Reply to Comments"

4.    Tell the FCC your stories! Especially that...

o   We need more local TV news voices, not fewer controlled by national media corporations.

o   If you are seeing the same news stories replicated on 2 or more local TV stations, provide details and try to take photos and include them in your comment.

EASY WAY: Just use X/Twitter to comment to the FCC!

1.    In your tweet, be sure to include "@FCC" and "#deletedeletedelete".

2.    Say something like: "When Sinclair, Nexstar, Tegna and other broadcasters control 2 or three TV stations in the same town, they just put the exact same news stories on all their stations. @FCC, don't just #deletedeletedelete rules that protect us. #SaveLocalTVNews"

 

Please share this action! The TV doomsday clock is ticking.