The Journal Inquirer, Norwich Bulletin, Meriden Record-Journal and unnamed “public interest groups” are once again asking the FCC to break up the Tribune Co.’s cross-ownership of The Courant and two Hartford television stations.
They assert that the company’s bankruptcy proceeding should not assign rights to the media properties until the longstanding cross-ownership issue is resolved.
The JI has the story, which it conveniently put outside it’s Internet pay wall — for now, anyway.
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In one of those tail waves the dog lines, the JI says:
“The creditors have asked the court to assign them ownership of Tribune’s Hartford Courant and TV stations WTIC-TV61 and WCCT-TV20, both in the Hartford-New Haven TV market, as well as Tribune media properties elsewhere.”
Oh, yes, and those other wee properties, too, might have some distant vague interest to the creditors. Fair enough, but it reminds me of an ancient imaginary headline in a story once about provincialism of the Boston Globe:
“Saugus Man Killed in NY Nuclear Holocaust”
The Ellis’ don’t give up. A little bird told me they were willing to go away if Tribune would hand over to them one of the TV stations.
I always knew they were phonies.