Claiming that the FCC will review a petition...

Claiming that the FCC will review a petition challenging the license of the Washington Redskins’ flagship radio station says nothing about the petition’s merits or how the commission might rule, said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Sunday in a letter to the editor posted on www.latimes.com (http://lat.ms/10Gp6bY). Wheeler said he finds the Washington NFL team name “offensive” and believes “it would be appropriate for the team to adopt a new name.” But “my personal views are just that -- personal -- and should not be perceived as an indication on how the commission will or won’t act,” he said, responding to an editorial on the news site stating the FCC has no business regulating a football team name (http://lat.ms/1q5q6Lq).