Wadeco, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Belo Broadcasting Corporation, Intervenor

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

WADECO, Inc., petitions for review of a decision by the Federal Communications Commission, released August 24, 1978, that denied WADECO’s application for a construction permit for a new television broadcast station on the ground that WADECO had misrepresented to the Commission, and withheld from it, significant information. WADECO claims that the Commission’s findings of misrepresentation and withholding are unsupported by substantial evidence, and that its sanction — absolute disqualification instead of a demerit in the comparative hearing between WADECO and the…