Reply #14: There is precedent for stopping this

[KamaAina]

a different fundy group tried to buy Pittsburgh's secondary PBS station, with assistance from none other than John McCain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQEX#Controversy

WQED's initial application to take WQEX commercial was rejected outright by the Federal Communications Commission,<10> leaving it to pursue an alternate plan by which the station was almost sold to religious broadcaster Cornerstone Television in 1999. The original plan was to move WPCB-TV from channel 40 (a commercial license) to channel 16 (non-commercial educational WQEX), with Paxson Communications buying channel 40 and converting it to a Pax TV affiliate. This move, which would have led to a $35 million payout being split equally between Cornerstone and WQED, was approved conditionally by the Federal Communications Commission in 2000, after lobbying by Republican Senator John McCain on behalf of PAX's Lowell Paxson, an intervention which Senator McCain would later deny having made. However, in response to vociferous concerns from members of the Pittsburgh local community, the FCC did impose one condition on the sale: half of Cornerstone's programming needed to be of educational value, effectively respecting the non-commercial educational condition of WQEX's existing license. Cornerstone flatly refused, abruptly backing out of the proposed deal. Religious programming doesn't qualify as educational if it's "primarily devoted to religious exhortation, proselytizing or statements of personally held religious views or beliefs," according to the FCC's ruling conditionally allowing religious broadcaster Cornerstone TV to take over WQEX and add educational content to the station. Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) abruptly reversed its position less than a month later removing the condition in response to intense political and legislative pressure (from whom, I wonder? -Ed.), Cornerstone withdrew its application and the sale was cancelled, keeping WQEX as a WQED-TV simulcast.