Standard's McDermott Meets With Media Bureau Chief Saurer

Standard General “is not interested in cutting news or station staffing,” company executives including CEO Deborah McDermott told FCC Media Bureau Chief Holly Saurer and staff in a Sept.15 meeting, according to an ex parte filing in docket 22-162. Standard protested Tegna’s furloughs in 2020 when it was engaged in proxy battles with Tegna leadership, said the filing, posted Tuesday. McDermott “rebuffed the notion that plans for improving TEGNA’s DC news bureau would result in any reduction in local news or news staffing,” the filing said.