FCC Enforcement Bureau: Standard Misrepresented 'Negotiation'
Standard General “misrepresented” the FCC Enforcement Bureau’s position in a news release on the then-pending Standard/Tegna deal, the EB said in a “clarification of the record” filing posted in docket 22-162 Tuesday. Tegna announced Monday the deal had been terminated…
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(see 2305220068). The bureau took issue with a May 17 release from Standard titled “Standard General Provides a Response to FCC’s Invitation to Negotiation with New Disclosures and Commitments,” which suggested the EB had suggested a path to a settlement. In the meetings with FCC commissioners mentioned in the release, the bureau said settlement discussions were allowed but put conditions on any such settlement and clarified that only the questions from the hearing designation order could be settled, not the ultimate fate of the Standard/Tegna deal. “The record here is plain -- the Bureau did not ‘invite negotiation’ or suggest that Applicants ‘quickly attempt to resolve remaining concerns to allow the transaction to move forward,’” the clarification said. Standard didn’t comment.