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Advocates want to keep TV 40 on the air
LINWOOD – U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo is concerned about local television coverage in light of the recent sale of WMGM-TV NBC 40 in Linwood.
The Republican congressman sent a letter Feb. 11 to Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, spelling out his concerns about the station’s continued coverage of news in the Atlantic City market.

 LoBiondo posed five questions to the FCC in his letter to Wheeler with a request for information. In the letter, LoBiondo said he was writing to express concern with the recent sales of small-market television broadcast stations in relation to spectrum speculation and to request information from the FCC on the factors that are considered during the sale of a small-market television broadcast stations.

“As you well know, television stations in small markets serve a critical and essential function for the public.  With the recent sale of several small-market television stations such as WYCN-TV in Nashua, N.H. and WMGM-TV in Atlantic City, N.J. concerns have been raised that the purchasers are not truly interested in serving the community or the survival of the station,” LoBiondo wrote. “Some have said the purchasers are accumulating small-market television stations only to speculate and profit from the spectrum available during the Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction.  Should this be the case, it seems likely the speculator would sell the station immediately or even close the station post-auction.”
Entire article at
http://www.shorenewstoday.com/snt/news/index.php/mainland-/news/49460-concern-growing-for-future-of-local-tv-news.html

Related post from Nov.12, 2013
http://gadfly01.blogspot.com/2013/11/nbc-40-wmgm-tv-sold.html

At the January 28, 2014, Mullica Township Committee Meeting, Resolution 33-2014 was unanimously adopted.
Resolution 33-2014 / Supporting NBC 
http://ecode360.com/documents/MU0269/public/74786508.pdf