Legal Opinion
Community Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 8, 1960No. Nos. 15313, 15314PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BURGER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant challenges the action of the Federal Communications Commission which granted to Modern Broadcasting Company (intervenor) a Special Temporary Authority (hereafter S.T.A.) to construct and operate a TV station on Channel 9, V.H.F., at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Modern has been operating station WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on U.H.F., Channel 28, since 1953, and has been sustaining operating losses since 1956. Channel 9, V.H.F., had been shifted, on June 3, 1959, by a rule making proceeding not challenged here, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to Baton Rouge.1
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2Cases cited5 opinions
- Ashbacker Radio Corp. v. Federal Communications CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- National Labor Relations Board v. Cheney California Lumber Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Secretary of Agriculture v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- American Broadcasting Co., Inc. v. Federal Communications CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951
- Peoples Broadcasting Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1953
3Cited by2 opinions
- International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1960
- International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, Afl-Cio v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1960