Media Action Center is a group of of concerned residents throughout the U.S. led by former Emmy-winning broadcaster turned media reformer Sue Wilson. We have successfully influenced policy at the Federal Communications Commission and at local TV and Radio stations throughout the country for more than a decade to ensure We the People are truly served by the publicly owned airwaves. (See the archive of our work under "older posts.") We successfully forced Entercom to give up its $13.5 million license to KDND for killing a woman in a radio water drinking stunt. We have a long-running action to label Alex Jones' radio show as the fiction it is, which has taken Jones' program off dozens of radio stations nationwide. We educated the Supreme Court in FCC v Prometheus Radio on critical information to #SaveLocalNews.

Please see MAC's 2018 Comment to the FCC (below) to learn why these actions are crucial to Democracy. Find full journalistic coverage of the Supreme Court case and our Amicus brief, Sinclair Broadcasting's shell game, Alex Jones, the Strange v Entercom trial and other public interest media issues at SueWilsonReports.com. For background on how we arrived in this era of disinformation and what to do about it, see Wilson's 2009 documentary Broadcast Blues.

URGENT ACTION: SAVE LOCAL TV NEWS

Friends, it's time to speak up LOUDLY to the FCC to Save Local TV News! They are taking comments from the public about any broadcast regulations we think should be changed. It sounds innocuous. BUT... industry is aiming to destroy local TV news. 

ACTION: 

1. READ the story "Trump's FCC on Precipice of Abolishing All Limits on Corporate Ownership of Local TV Stations" on BradBlog.com.

"In addition to licensing two or more stations in many major markets, running the same stories on each, they also run websites to go with them. Those websites are also duplicative. Here, for example, are screenshots taken recently at the same moment on Nexstar's two Little Rock, Arkansas news stations, channel 16, a FOX affiliate and Channel 4, the local NBC affiliate. Both are reporting the exact same stories." 

 

                   

The time to fight back is NOW, though time is short. There are two ways to do so, even if we don't have control of some 200 television stations to help us get the word out.


MORE DIFFICULT, BUT MORE EFFECTIVE WAY: File an Official Comment with the FCC by 11:59PM EDT Monday, April 28, 2025. (Comments made after that date will still be received by the FCC but will not have legal standing for further action.)

1.   Go to the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System, Fill out all starred categories. Non-starred categories are optional.

2.    In the first section, where it reads "Proceeding(s): Select the FCC Proceeding(s) to which your filing refers write 25-133. Then click on "In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete".

3.    Also required is your name and address and "Type of filing." Under "Type of Filing" choose "Reply to Comments"

4.    Tell the FCC your stories! Especially that...

o   We need more local TV news voices, not fewer controlled by national media corporations.

o   If you are seeing the same news stories replicated on 2 or more local TV stations, provide details and try to take photos and include them in your comment.

EASY WAY: Just use X/Twitter to comment to the FCC!

1.    In your tweet, be sure to include "@FCC" and "#deletedeletedelete".

2.    Say something like: "When Sinclair, Nexstar, Tegna and other broadcasters control 2 or three TV stations in the same town, they just put the exact same news stories on all their stations. @FCC, don't just #deletedeletedelete rules that protect us. #SaveLocalTVNews"

 

Please share this action! The TV doomsday clock is ticking.