Rko General Inc

Antoinette D. Cook, senior counsel for the Senate Communications subcommittee and a leading candidate to head the Federal Communications Commission, received more than $500,000 in 1988 to abandon her bid to contest the fitness of a Washington radio station, a practice the industry once derisively termed "filing for dollars." Receiving money for challenging a station's government-issued broadcast license was legal at the time.

RKO General has tried to sell local independent station KHJ-TV Channel 9 twice in the last two years, but both deals have been blocked by the Federal Communications Commission. Embroiled for more than two decades in messy litigation over its fitness to hold a broadcast license, RKO is still unable to rid itself of what is routinely described in newspaper accounts of these transactions as "the lowest-rated VHF station in the L.A. market."

Antoinette D. Cook, senior counsel for the Senate Communications subcommittee and a leading candidate to head the Federal Communications Commission, received more than $500,000 in 1988 to abandon her bid to contest the fitness of a Washington radio station, a practice the industry once derisively termed "filing for dollars." Receiving money for challenging a station's government-issued broadcast license was legal at the time.

The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday approved the sale of RKO General's KHJ-TV Channel 9 in Los Angeles to Walt Disney Co. for $324 million. The decision ends a 23-year broadcast license dispute that the commission called "the most burdensome proceeding in the FCC's history."

The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday approved the sale of RKO General's KHJ-TV Channel 9 in Los Angeles to Walt Disney Co. for $324 million. The decision ends a 23-year broadcast license dispute that the commission called "the most burdensome proceeding in the FCC's history."

RKO General has tried to sell local independent station KHJ-TV Channel 9 twice in the last two years, but both deals have been blocked by the Federal Communications Commission. Embroiled for more than two decades in messy litigation over its fitness to hold a broadcast license, RKO is still unable to rid itself of what is routinely described in newspaper accounts of these transactions as "the lowest-rated VHF station in the L.A. market."

RKO General, the once-giant broadcasting company mired in a decades-old battle to defend its suitability as a license holder, suffered another blow Tuesday when an FCC administrative law judge ruled that the company is unfit to run KHJ-TV Channel 9 in Los Angeles and 13 other television and radio stations across the land. RKO immediately said it would appeal the decision and does not expect the ruling to harm its 5-month-old agreement to sell KHJ-TV to Walt Disney Co.

RKO General Monday asked the Federal Communications Commission to reverse a decision revoking the company's licenses to operate KHJ-TV Channel 9 in Los Angeles and 13 other television and radio stations across the country. In a strongly worded appeal, RKO denounced the decision by an FCC administrative judge as one-sided, calling it "extraordinary in the number of its errors, both factual and legal, and in the extravagance of its rhetoric."

RKO General Monday asked the Federal Communications Commission to reverse a decision revoking the company's licenses to operate KHJ-TV Channel 9 in Los Angeles and 13 other television and radio stations across the country. In a strongly worded appeal, RKO denounced the decision by an FCC administrative judge as one-sided, calling it "extraordinary in the number of its errors, both factual and legal, and in the extravagance of its rhetoric."

RKO General, the once-giant broadcasting company mired in a decades-old battle to defend its suitability as a license holder, suffered another blow Tuesday when an FCC administrative law judge ruled that the company is unfit to run KHJ-TV Channel 9 in Los Angeles and 13 other television and radio stations across the land. RKO immediately said it would appeal the decision and does not expect the ruling to harm its 5-month-old agreement to sell KHJ-TV to Walt Disney Co.