The Federal Communications Commission is conducting public hearings here on the license renewal application of a suburban radio station that is accused by 19 civic and religious groups of being a forum for anti-Semitic, anti-Negro and anti-Catholic broadcasts.
The station, WUXR, of nearby Media, Pa., is operated by Brandywine-Main Line Broadcast, Inc., owned by Faith Theological Seminary of Elkins Park, Pa. The president of the seminary is Rev. Dr. Carl Mclntire, a fundamentalist clergyman known for his extreme right-wing broadcasts.
Among the groups that have formally opposed renewal of the station’s license are the Greater Philadelphia Council of Churches and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. Jerome Bakst, director of research and evaluation of the ADL, characterized McIntire’s 30-minute radio show, called “The 20th Century Reformation Hour,” as a religious program with an extremely right-wing viewpoint.
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