Charles W. Chook Bryant

It was a little... Hinky?

Hinky is the word that we used to use.

So the petitioners appealed, and in 1966, yeah, 66, the Court of Appeals

for D.C.

said, you do have standing to petition the FCC to revoke a license because that's all about protecting the public interest, which is what the FCC was supposed to be doing in the first place.

So get back to work.

And finally, in 1967, the FCC revisited that petition, rejected it again, and

Right.

Because they said, hey, this station is actually kind of taking some steps since then, and we think they're doing the right thing.

Petitioners still weren't happy.

They appealed that.

And in 1969, the FCC actually revoked Lamar Broadcasting's license.

Yeah, so the complaint here was that he—

or the station rather, via Harold Gross, had abused their broadcasting power to the detriment of the public.

So what he did was he denied airtime to political rivals in some cases.

In other cases, he censored coverage of local businesses if they didn't advertise with them.

um that was a big one didn't cover the jimmy hoffa disappearance because he didn't like jimmy hoffa's politics even though it was a national and a local story yeah so in 1975 uh a hearing by the fcc said you know you've you violated the fairness rule we're taking your license buddy uh but he appealed it and this time uh he won the appeal and like you said this was a big shift in the way things were being thought about as far as the fairness doctrine went um

What is it now?

Do you know?

The building.