A petition has been filed with the FCC to halt the sale of 16 CBS Radio stations to Entercom in light of KDND/Sacramento's fatal Hold Your Wee for a Wii water-drinking contest. In the petition, attorneys for Royce International Broadcasting allege to the FCC that Entercom is “a highly-leveraged criminal enterprise that cannot be relied on to serve the public interest.” The petition claims that Entercom cannot be trusted to properly serve the public and that "Entercom is responsible for the tragic death of Jennifer Strange. It was a stupid radio stunt designed to raise the ratings and revenues of Entercom’s KDND-FM in Sacramento, California until it went horribly wrong.”

The petition concludes, "The Commission has a policy that requires licensees to conduct contests with due regard for the public interest... There is no evidence in the record to show that Entercom cares about anything other than generating revenues, by whatever means. It certainly did not care about the public it was licensed to serve when it solicited and accepted illegal bribes from record companies [referring to the recent payola investigation]. Nor did it care about the public interest or the Commission’s rules when it repeatedly broadcast indecent material at a time when children were likely to be in the audience... As this last tragedy demonstrates, it is willing to do anything for money, including recklessly endangering the lives of the public it has been licensed to serve."

A wrongful death lawsuit in the case could be filed as early as tomorrow by Strange's family.