Congratulations to the Journal Broadcasting Group, the latest media company to hop across the Federal Communications Commission's not very deep limits on television duopolies. Journal has won the right to own two TV stations in the Tucson, Arizona market, and to allow one to pretty much operate the other. What's the reason for this particular waiver? The FCC has classified one of the licenses as a "failing station"—that is, a signal that has floundered for "an extended period of time both in terms of its audience share and financial performance." Whoever said that failure isn't an option was wrong, yet again.

The underperforming station in question is Tucson's KWBA, affiliated with the Warner Brothers CW Network. It will now be owned by Journal and more or less overseen by its Tucson sister, ABC affiliate KGUN, also a Journal license. 

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