Citizens TV Protest Committee v. Federal Communications Commission

BAZELON, Chief Judge:

Without hearing, the Federal Communications Commission granted intervenor Northern West Virginia Broadcasting Company’s application for assignment from intervenor Rust Craft Broadcasting Company of the license to operate WBOY-TV, the only television station in Clarksburg, West Virginia.1 Appellants, an ad hoc committee of Clarksburg townspeople and the publishers of the Clarksburg newspaper, were not parties to the proceedings leading to the grant; they challenge the Commission’s denial of their timely petition for reconsideration.2 Intervenor WJPB-TV, a party at the time…