Jacksonville Broadcasting Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, Florida-Georgia Televisioncorporation, Inc., Intervenor

FAHY, Circuit Judge, and BASTIAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by Jacksonville Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) from a decision of the Federal Communications Commission reaffirming prior grants of a construction permit and television station licenses to Florida-Georgia Television Company, Inc., the intervenor, to operate on Channel 12 in Jacksonville, Florida, and finding JBC to be disqualified from consideration.

The case was commenced in 1952 by appellant in filing an application for a construction permit for a new television broadcast station on the channel. Competing applications…