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 TV and Radio stations throughout the country to ensure We the People are truly served by Our publicly owned airwaves. MAC has joined a current Petition to Deny the broadcast licenses of DISNEY ABC at the FCC to ensure We the People have a seat at our Public Interest table. 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.

The FCC Doesn't Own ABC's Airwaves - You Do. Fight For Them!

August 26, 2026 

Published by Editor and Publisher Magazine 

 

“Rules? Rules? The FCC don’t need no stinkin’ rules! No First Amendment! No Judges!” That’s paraphrasing the Federal Communications Commission’s Chairman Brendan Carr who is turning the FCC into the Federal Commission of Chaos.

Chairman Carr’s latest travesty: hiding information that his lone administrative law judge, Jane Halprin, who was expected to hear the bogus ABC licensing case, quietly resigned May 30.  

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