California Public Broadcasting Forum v. Federal Communications Commission, Kqed, Inc., Intervenor

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

This case concerns an appeal from a series of Federal Communications Commission decisions not to hold hearings on several petitions to deny renewal of the licenses of KQED, Inc., the owner and operator of public television stations in San Francisco, California. The issue presented is whether the FCC could reasonably have found that the appellants here had not, in their petitions, made specific allegations raising substantial and material questions of fact that would constitute a prima facie showing that renewal of KQED’s licenses was not in the public interest.…