"Sid Schweiger" wrote in message
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Then there was WHDH....RKO...these were financial shenanigans, if I
remember
correctly. So not a one lost a license based on "fitness".

The WHDH case stemmed from an improper contact between a representative of
an
applicant for a TV license in Boston and an FCC commissioner (chronicled
in
Sterling Quinlan's book "The Hundred Million Dollar Lunch").

And that was in the general area that rendered RKO lacking the character
qualifications to hold a license. In other words, "fitness." Add the General
Tire dealings in Libya and Argentina, and you got the required divestiture
of the remaining RKO properties.