KRTV Sale Approved By FCC Vote of 4-3

honors. preferred Wednesday Interment KRTV Sale Approved By FCC Vote of 4-3 Sale of television station| KRTV to Garryowen Cascade TV, Inc., has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission on a 4-3 vote. Joseph! S. Sample, 99 per cent owner of Garryowen Cascade TV, is 99 per cent owner of four other Montana broadcast properties and now owns three of the state's eight television stations. Snyder &amp; Associates, previous owner of KRTV, is to receive $1,070,000 for the station. In addition, Dan Snyder, principal owner of Snyder &amp; Associates, is to be retained as a consultant for 10 years, with a $20,000 salary and a $5,000 expense allowance each year. Snyder has agreed not to engage in standard broadcast or television competition within 125 miles of Great Falls during the 10-year period. Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, one of the dissenters, issued a statement in which he attacked what he called the concentration of economic and political power in Garryowen Cascade TV, Inc. Johnson, noting that the three stations owned by the firm would reach more than one-half the population of Montana, voiced concern "for the full and free dissemination of informations tion and discussing of issues and opinion about and within the state." Commissioner Kenneth A. Cox, one of those who voted to approve the sale, said he did so with considerable reluctance. The need to assure the development of an economically viable free television service in sparsely populated areas outweighed concern over concentration of control, Cox indicated. The other properties owned by Garryowen Cascade TV are KOOK - AM - TV, Billings, and KXLF-AM-TV, Butte. The FCC decision was made Feb. 28 but not made public until Wednesday.

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KRTV Sale Approved By FCC Vote of 4-3

KRTV Sale Approved By FCC Vote of 4-3

Great Falls Tribune