FEDERA L COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN The Honorable Dave Loebsack U.S. House ofRepresentatives 1527 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Congressman Loebsack: May 1, 2014 Thank you for your letter regarding the pending license transfer applications for KTVK(TV) and KASW(TV). I appreciate the opportunity to provide you with a status update. The underlying applications were accepted for filing in the Media Bureau on January 2, 2014, and were amended on February 20, 2014. As noted in the letter from your constituents, they have been working with the Bureau staff to provide the appropriate information and amendments to their applications and those discussions are on-going. The parties have also been in frequent contact with my staff and have scheduled a meeting on May 5, 2014 to discuss the license transfer applications in detail. As you may know, the Media Bureau recently released a Public Notice providing additional guidance to stations with pending applications that involve various sharing and financial agreements. The guidance was in response to a Bureau-level decision in the December 2013 Gannett-Belo transaction (in which these stations were involved) where the Bureau outlined its approach to review transactions, on a case-by-case basis, taking into consideration "the economic effects of, and incentives created by, a proposed transaction taken as a whole and its consistency with the Commission's policies under the Act, including our policies in favor of competition, diversity, and localism." Shareholders ofBelo Corp., Memorandum Opinion and Order, DA 13-2423 (MB rel. Dec. 20, 2013), at~ 30. Please be assured that the Bureau staff is actively working on these transactions using the criteria outlined in the Guidance Public Notice. I anticipate that there will be final action on these pending matters in the near term. I hope this information is helpful. Sincerely, I I w?r~- Tom Wheeler FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN The Honorable Tom Latham U.S. House of Representatives 2217 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Congressman Latham: May 1, 2014 Thank you for your letter regarding the pending license transfer applications for KTVK(TV) and KASW(TV). I appreciate the opportunity to provide you with a status update. The underlying applications were accepted for filing in the Media Bureau on January 2, 2014, and were amended on February 20, 2014. As noted in the letter from your constituents, they have been working with the Bureau staff to provide the appropriate information and amendments to their applications and those discussions are on-going. The parties have also been in frequent contact with my staff and have scheduled a meeting on May 5, 2014 to discuss the license transfer applications in detail. As you may know, the Media Bureau recently released a Public Notice providing additional guidance to stations with pending applications that involve various sharing and financial agreements. The guidance was in response to a Bureau-level decision in the December 2013 Gannett-Belo transaction (in which these stations were involved) where the Bureau outlined its approach to review transactions, on a case-by-case basis, taking into consideration "the economic effects of, and incentives created by, a proposed transaction taken as a whole and its consistency with the Commission's policies under the Act, including our policies in favor of competition, diversity, and localism." Shareholders of Bela Corp., Memorandum Opinion and Order, DA 13-2423 (MB rel. Dec. 20, 2013), at~ 30. Please be assured that the Bureau staff is actively working on these transactions using the criteria outlined in the Guidance Public Notice. I anticipate that there will be final action on these pending matters in the near term. I hope this information is helpful. Tom Wheeler FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CH A IR MAN The Honorable Steve King U.S. House of Representatives 2210 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Congressman King: May 1, 2014 Thank you for your letter regarding the pending license transfer applications for KTVK(TV) and KASW(TV). I appreciate the opportunity to provide you with a status update. The underlying applications were accepted for filing in the Media Bureau on January 2, 2014, and were amended on February 20, 2014. As noted in the letter from your constituents, they have been working with the Bureau staff to provide the appropriate information and amendments to their applications and those discussions are on-going. The parties have also been in frequent contact with my staff and have scheduled a meeting on May 5, 2014 to discuss the license transfer applications in detail. As you may know, the Media Bureau recently released a Public Notice providing additional guidance to stations with pending applications that involve various sharing and financial agreements. The guidance was in response to a Bureau-level decision in the December 2013 Gannett-Belo transaction (in which these stations were involved) where the Bureau outlined its approach to review transactions, on a case-by-case basis, taking into consideration "the economic effects of, and incentives created by, a proposed transaction taken as a whole and its consistency with the Commission's policies under the Act, including our policies in favor of competition, diversity, and localism." Shareholders of Belo Corp., Memorandum Opinion and Order, DA 13-2423 (MB rel. Dec. 20, 2013), at~ 30. Please be assured that the Bureau staff is actively working on these transactions using the criteria outlined in the Guidance Public Notice. I anticipate that there will be final action on these pending matters in the near term. I hope this information is helpful. ;;:u~l Tom Wheeler FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN The Honorable Bruce Braley U.S. House of Representatives 2263 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Congressman Braley: May 1, 2014 Thank you for your letter regarding the pending license transfer applications for KTVK(TV) and KASW(TV). I appreciate the opportunity to provide you with a status update. The underlying applications were accepted for filing in the Media Bureau on January 2, 2014, and were amended on February 20, 2014. As noted in the letter from your constituents, they have been working with the Bureau staff to provide the appropriate information and amendments to their applications and those discussions are on-going. The parties have also been in frequent contact with my staff and have scheduled a meeting on May 5, 2014 to discuss the license transfer applications in detail. As you may know, the Media Bureau recently released a Public Notice providing additional guidance to stations with pending applications that involve various sharing and financial agreements. The guidance was in response to a Bureau-level decision in the December 2013 Gannett-Bela transaction (in which these stations were involved) where the Bureau outlined its approach to review transactions, on a case-by-case basis, taking into consideration "the economic effects of, and incentives created by, a proposed transaction taken as a whole and its consistency with the Commission's policies under the Act, including our policies in favor of competition, diversity, and localism." Shareholders ofBelo Corp., Memorandum Opinion and Order, DA 13-2423 (MB rel. Dec. 20, 2013), at~ 30. Please be assured that the Bureau staff is actively working on these transactions using the criteria outlined in the Guidance Public Notice. I anticipate that there will be final action on these pending matters in the near term. I hope this information is helpful. ~;~/) Tom '~e:er FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CH A IRM A N The Honorable Tom Harkin United States Senate 731 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Harkin: May 1, 2014 Thank you for your letter regarding the pending license transfer applications for KTVK(TV) and KASW(TV). I appreciate the opportunity to provide you with a status update. The underlying applications were accepted for filing in the Media Bureau on January 2, 2014, and were amended on February 20, 2014. As noted in the letter from your constituents, they have been working with the Bureau staff to provide the appropriate information and amendments to their applications and those discussions are on-going. The parties have also been in frequent contact with my staff and have scheduled a meeting on May 5, 2014 to discuss the license transfer applications in detail. As you may know, the Media Bureau recently released a Public Notice providing additional guidance to stations with pending applications that involve various sharing and financial agreements. The guidance was in response to a Bureau-level decision in the December 2013 Gannett-Belo transaction (in which these stations were involved) where the Bureau outlined its approach to review transactions, on a case-by-case basis, taking into consideration "the economic effects of, and incentives created by, a proposed transaction taken as a whole and its consistency with the Commission's policies under the Act, including our policies in favor of competition, diversity, and localism." Shareholders ofBelo Corp., Memorandum Opinion and Order, DA 13-2423 (MB rel. Dec. 20, 2013), at~ 30. Please be assured that the Bureau staff is actively working on these transactions using the criteria outlined in the Guidance Public Notice. I anticipate that there will be final action on these pending matters in the near term. I hope this information is helpful. :;;;;tJ- Tom Wheeler FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN The Honorable Charles Grassley United States Senate 135 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Grassley: May 1, 2014 Thank you for your letter regarding the pending license transfer applications for KTVK(TV) and KASW(TV). I appreciate the opportunity to provide you with a status update. The underlying applications were accepted for filing in the Media Bureau on January 2, 2014, and were amended on February 20, 2014. As noted in the letter from your constituents, they have been working with the Bureau staff to provide the appropriate information and amendments to their applications and those discussions are on-going. The parties have also been in frequent contact with my staff and have scheduled a meeting on May 5, 2014 to discuss the license transfer applications in detail. As you may know, the Media Bureau recently released a Public Notice providing additional guidance to stations with pending applications that involve various sharing and financial agreements. The guidance was in response to a Bureau-level decision in the December 2013 Gannett-Bela transaction (in which these stations were involved) where the Bureau outlined its approach to review transactions, on a case-by-case basis, taking into consideration "the economic effects of, and incentives created by, a proposed transaction taken as a whole and its consistency with the Commission's policies under the Act, including our policies in favor of competition, diversity, and localism." Shareholders of Bela Corp. , Memorandum Opinion and Order, DA 13-2423 (MB rel. Dec. 20, 2013), at~ 30. Please be assured that the Bureau staff is actively working on these transactions using the criteria outlined in the Guidance Public Notice. I anticipate that there will be final action on these pending matters in the near term. I hope this information is helpful. -);;~(~ Tom Wheeler