FCC Again Denies Ed Stolz Challenges To Entercom Sacramento Licenses, CBS Deal

License Challenges Denied

The FCC has dismissed and denied ED STOLZ's latest challenges to the Commission's approval of the ENTERCOM acquisition of CBS RADIO and license renewals of ENTERCOM's SACRAMENTO stations.

In three separate orders, the Commission denied STOLZ's application for review of the license renewal proceedings for KDND/SACRAMENTO, for which ENTERCOM turned in the license over the fatal "Hold Your Wee For A Wii" contest (STOLZ had contended that the proceeding should have gone to a hearing instead of allowing ENTERCOM to end the process with the license surrender); denied a “Petition for Further Reconsideration” by STOLZ and DEBORAH J. NAIMAN challenging the CBS deal by raising the LES MOONVES sexual harassment accusations; and dismissed and denied STOLZ's  “Petition for Further Reconsideration” on the SACRAMENTO license renewals, based on both lack of standing and because the Commission found that STOLZ had "failed to make any connection between the substance of his allegations raised against CBS in the ENTERCOM/CBS proceeding and the question of whether ENTERCOM is entitled to renewal of its licenses."

STOLZ has been challenging ENTERCOM's licenses since being ordered in 1996 to go through with the sale of then-KWOD/SACRAMENTO (now KUDL) to ENTERCOM after trying to rescind the deal.

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