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Free Press is disappointed that this panel of judges refused to rule on the FCC’s phony math and poor excuses for the obsolete and harmful UHF discount.

A federal court rejected a lawsuit against the FCC seeking to overturn the agency’s decision to effectively raise the limit on the number of local television stations a company can own.

The decision may have arrived too late for Sinclair’s proposed bid for Tribune — though it could help other suitors for the Chicago-based broadcaster.

The appeals court said that the plaintiffs in the case, including the public-interest group Free Press, lacked standing, but said that it did not consider the merits of the case.

The questionable maneuvers that triggered the FCC’s slow-down of the Sinclair-Tribune deal represent only a fraction of the regulatory tricks Sinclair uses.

Large ISPs are trying to control the internet, restrict the free flow of information and restore their historical role of for-profit arbiter of what we can and cannot read, watch or hear.

An administrative law judge will decide if Sinclair lied to the FCC about its divestiture plans.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has vowed to revise its station-divestiture plan in an effort to salvage its $3.9-billion acquisition of Tribune Media.

Free Press v. FCC, a case pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, could upend the deal just as easily.

Sinclair Broadcast Group tried to placate federal regulators but the FCC still voted unanimously to have a judge review the company’s deal to buy Tribune Media.