Fox Faces FCC License Threat Over False Election Claims & Jan. 6 Attack

deadline.com:

Fox may have forked over $787 million to avoid going to trial in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit over false 2020 election claims, but the Rupert Murdoch-owned company is far from free of the fallout.

Full of excerpts of personal emails from Murdoch himself, a petition has been filed with the Federal Communications Commission to deny the broadcast license renewal of Fox Corp-owned Philadelphia TV station FOX 29 over its parent company’s “misdeeds.” Led in part by former Fox Broadcasting Company executive Preston Padden, the petition from The Media and Democracy Project cites the bracing revelations out of the Dominion case and Fox News’ trumpeting of Trump’s Stop the Steal efforts as perpetuating “false news about the 2020 election.” “Based on extensive record evidence including internal emails and texts, a court has held that the senior management of Fox Television Stations repeatedly disseminated false news,” the July 3 dated filing states (read it here). “To the best of Petitioners’ knowledge, never before has the Commission been confronted with such a judicial finding against an applicant for renewal of a license to broadcast over the public airwaves,” it goes on to say.

After months of a torrent of damning documents tainting the likes of the elder Murdoch, his execs, and past and present hosts Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo,Fox Corp settled with Dominion for millions and with a tightly parsed statement just as the trial was starting on April 18.

Viewing the payment as an admission unto itself and referencing email that the elder Murdoch sent to Padden himself in late 2020, the Media and Democracy Project petition believes the company’s conduct “warranting Commission denial of FOX’s