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FCC Member Wants Probe of Ala. TV Station

Posted Mar 4, 08 4:10 PM CST in Crime & Courts,  Politics 

(Newser) – An FCC commissioner wants to know why an Alabama TV station went off the air just as a "60 Minutes" segment critical of Karl Rove started, Broadcasting & Cable reports. WHNT blamed a “technical difficulty," but Michael Copps said today he wants to find out whether Sunday's blackout of most of a segment about the imprisonment of ex-governor Don Siegelman was a political move.

Copps, a Democrat, asked the commission chairman to open a formal inquiry into Sunday's outage; Kevin Martin, a Republican, says he'll investigate. The station president said, “There was no intent whatsoever to keep anyone from seeing the broadcast,” which aired again several times, the New York Times noted in an editorial that inspired Copps.

Sources Broadcasting & Cable, New York Times

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Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman talks with reporters after leaving the federal courthouse in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, June 27, 2007. Siegelman was sentenced to more than seven years in federal...   (Associated Press)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner Michael Copps speaks during the annual FCC Breakfast at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas in this April 17, 2007 file...   (Associated Press)
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