FCC Should Settle With Latina, NHMC Says
The FCC should settle its dispute with Latina Broadcasters and allow WDYB to participate in the incentive auction rather than continue with litigation, the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) said in an ex parte filing posted online Tuesday in docket…
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12-268. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stayed an FCC decision to exclude Latina and ordered the FCC to provisionally include Latina in the auction, pending a final decision on Latina's appeal of the order. Latina's owner, Nora Soto, is one of only four Latina TV station “majority-owners” in the country, NHMC said. “She has expended considerable resources fighting her case in the courts when she could be utilizing these same resources to grow her station and continue to provide much needed programming,” NHMC said.