The Anti-Defomation League of B’nai B’rith has asked the Federal Communications Commission to act without delay in denying a license to a Kansas radio station that broadcasts anti-Semitic slanders and incitement to violence against Jews.
Jeffrey Sinensky, director of ADL’s legal affairs department, said that station KTTL-FM of Dodge City continues to air “blatant attacks against the Jewish people” despite strong objections from many quarters, including Kansas Senator Robert Dole, the Kansas Attorney General and the Jewish Community Relations Bureau of Kansas City.
The ADL, Sinensky noted, protested against KTTL-FM’s programming in May, and urged the FCC to deny the station’s license-renwal application.
In a letter to FCC Secretary William Tricarico, Sinensky said KTTL-FM had advocated the murder of Jews and blacks in programs aired up to February of this year. More recently, he added, KTTL-FM’s racist and anti-Semitic broadcasts conclude with appeals to listeners to stockpile weapons and ammunition which are “incitements to lawlessness.”
Sinensky cited a statement to the FCC by Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan that “the potential for violence in Kansas is real and the station’s programming is increasing the possibility such violence will occur.”
Such programming Sinensky went on, “falls outside the commission’s public interest standard for licensees,” and therefore KTTL-FM is not entitled to renewal of its broadcast license.
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