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Article: TV deal legalese is receiving fine-toothed comb treatment
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- November 1, 2009
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Attorneys for Media Council Hawaii and the Federal Communications Commission have something in common, aside from their JDs (law degrees).
CAPTION: They are reviewing 144 pages of FCC-requested documents relating to the locally unprecedented news and operational consolidation between KHNL-TV and the now-swapped KGMB-TV and KFVE-TV. The gross-o'-pages were submitted by station owners Raycom Media Inc. and MCG Capital Corp. and received by the FCC, the media council's counsel and the media council itself.
"It's so convoluted," Chris Conybeare, Media Council Hawaii president, said of the submission. He joked that it could provide "a little light reading for the weekend."
The FCC compelled the ...