by Cheryl Leanza | Jul 15, 2026 | Blog, Featured, Media Concentration, Media Diversity, Open and Affordable Communications
Today, the FCC announced it wants to eliminate the 39% national television ownership cap, the same law we’ve been fighting to enforce in filings at the FCC and in our case against the Nexstar/TEGNA merger. We filed a 143-page petition to block that deal, took the FCC...
by Cheryl Leanza | May 1, 2026 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Featured, Media Concentration, Media Diversity
We are reaping the fruit of the industry’s cowardice. For more than a year, most major media companies have stood by or aggressively acquiesced as President Trump and FCC Chair Brendan Carr pressured them through lawsuits and baseless investigations. Radio coverage of...
by Cheryl Leanza | Apr 23, 2026 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Featured, Media Concentration, Media Diversity
UCC Media Justice is no stranger to standing up for accountability and localism in our media. Today, we are celebrating our allies in this fight: eight attorneys general and the company DirecTV, who secured a longer-lasting freeze on the Nextar/TEGNA merger. Chief...
by Sara Cederberg | Apr 8, 2026 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Featured, Media Concentration, Media Diversity
We’ve been busy. On March 19, Nexstar closed its $6.2 billion acquisition of TEGNA within 15 minutes of receiving a staff-level FCC approval. No full Commission vote. No public hearing. No review of our detailed 143-page petition to deny. Fifteen minutes. The...
by Cheryl Leanza | Feb 5, 2026 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, FCC Accountability, Featured, Media Concentration
As we start 2026, UCC Media Justice continues its long legacy of ensuring that local TV broadcasters serve their communities by joining with our allies to oppose the Nexstar/TEGNA merger. At a time when local and reliable sources of news and information are more...
by Cheryl Leanza | May 23, 2023 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Media Concentration, Uncategorized
After months of scrutiny and last-minute brinksmanship, a proposed $8.6 Billion hedge fund takeover of TV company TEGNA was finally sent to the scrap heap. UCC Media Justice had jointly filed against the transaction with Common Cause and also with two unions that are...
