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KSQA Petition Moot, Say Consumer, Media Bureaus

The FCC Media and Consumer and Governmental Affairs bureaus dismissed a petition for reconsideration by KSQA as moot, said an order Wednesday on docket 20-158. The company sought reconsideration of the termination of a carriage proceeding it was involved in…

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against DirecTV that the agency declared dormant. The underlying complaint “pertained to the 2015-17 election cycle for satellite carriage of television stations,” the order said. “This is no longer a live controversy.” KSQA argued it didn’t receive proper notice, but the order said that issue wasn’t relevant: “Even if that argument were meritorious, it would have no bearing on our independent determination that the underlying complaint was no longer a live controversy when the docket was terminated.”