Transparency Groups Should Have Brought Concerns to WCPO, Scripps Says
Scripps is “disappointed” the transparency groups that filed 16 complaints against its WCPO-TV Cincinnati (see 1609260077) over political advertising filing rule violations “did not first contact the station,” the company said in a news release. “Had they done so, the…
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station would have worked with them to ensure that all appropriate information was made available to the public.” Scripps agreed the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Sunlight Foundation and Benton Foundation found some “areas where the station's filings could have been more descriptive” and said it “made appropriate amendments” to its file. But the broadcaster also said some of the complaints “inaccurately allege that ad scheduling and other required information was missing, when in fact the information is listed in the file.” In response to a request from the transparency groups for the FCC to expedite the process (see 1609290063), a Scripps spokeswoman told us the company agreed to respond to the complaints by Oct. 14 instead of the initial Oct. 28 deadline offered by the FCC.