[cf100clunk]

My knee-jerk sense of fair play has me wondering how/why Fox News license holders are not at risk of losing theirs, given the self-acknowledged mendacity of some of its on-air personalities. To me, that goes directly to 'character qualifications', but perhaps cable TV network owners do not face the same standards as their broadcast radio station colleagues.

[kej]

Yeah, broadcast and cable are regulated very differently because radio spectrum is a limited shared public resource while cable is mostly private property and essentially unlimited channels.