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“We saw union activists and organizers be involved in these efforts to resist our operations,” he told local television station KCAL.

If the agency does not approve the transfer of CBS television station licenses to the Ellison family, the deal could collapse.

More than 40 million Americans listen to NPR public radio each week, and 36 million watch a local television station from the PBS network each month, according to their estimates.

The Federal Communications Commission must approve the transfer of CBS television station licenses to the Ellison family.

As television station owners gathered in Las Vegas this week for the annual National Assn. of Broadcasters convention, they sent an urgent message to Washington that could be summed up in one word — “Help.”