Mission Broadcasting Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, Coast Tv, Intervenor

GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

Mission Broadcasting Corporation and Solar Television, Inc. each challenge orders of the Federal Communications Commission denying to it and granting to Coast TV a permit to construct and operate a new television station in Santa Barbara, California. In each case the agency held that the appellant had failed to demonstrate that it had the reasonable assurance of financing needed to be awarded a permit. Neither appellant has shown that the Commission’s decision concerning its financial showing was arbitrary and capricious or unsupported by substantial evidence. Because…