WWOR, the New Jersey-based television station, faced a new
challenge to its license on Tuesday from United States Senator Robert Menendez,
according to The NYTimes.
Mr. Menendez, a Democrat, wrote to the Federal
Communications Commission to urge a “prompt and thorough review” of the license
that permits WWOR to profit from the public airwaves. His letter came one day
after the station replaced its traditional half-hour nightly newscast, the only
daily news on its schedule, with a tabloid-style magazine program called
“Chasing New Jersey.”
“In light of WWOR’s decision to drop their nightly news
programming, a decision which affects millions of New Jerseyans, it is becoming
increasingly critical that the F.C.C. make a determination about WWOR’s license
and whether they are adequately serving New Jersey as the law and F.C.C. rules
stipulate,” Mr. Menendez wrote to Mignon L. Clyburn, the acting chair of the
commission.
WWOR, the only big commercial station in the state and
otherwise served by the New York and Philadelphia media markets, has been controversial for
some time because its license specifically asserts that the station must pay
special attention to the people of northern New Jersey . Since 2001, the station has been
owned by the News Corporation, which last month split into two companies, the
News Corporation and 21st Century Fox. WWOR is now part of 21st Century Fox.
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