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WASH. ASS'N FOR TELEVISION & CHILDREN v. F. C. C.

Nos. 79-2223, 79-2224.

665 F.2d 1264 (1981)

WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION FOR TELEVISION AND CHILDREN, Appellant, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Taft Broadcasting Company, Intervenor. WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION FOR TELEVISION AND CHILDREN, Appellant, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Taft Broadcasting Company, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilhelmina Reuben Cooke, Washington, D. C., with whom Nolan A. Bowie, Washington, D. C., and Jeffrey H. Olson, New Ulm, Minn., were on the brief, for appellant.

C. Grey Pash, Jr., Counsel, F. C. C., Washington, D. C., with whom Robert R. Bruce, Gen. Counsel, and Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel, F. C. C., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Arthur B. Goodkind, Washington, D. C., with whom Bernard Koteen and Margot Smiley Humphrey, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for intervenor.

Before MIKVA and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges, and VAN PELT, United States Senior District Judge for the District of Nebraska.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.

MIKVA, Circuit Judge:

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the transfer of control of Channel 20 in Washington, D.C., to the intervenor in this case, Taft Broadcasting Company (Taft). The appellant, Washington Association for Television and Children (WATCH), raises a variety of procedural and substantive objections to the manner in which the FCC performed. We hold that a number of these objections...

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