 Politicians weighed in in the House of Representatives; when Nellie Babbs appeared before a subcommittee hearing on deregulation in August 1983, Ed Markey scolded her.KTTL's license came up for renewal in 1983; two groups filed petitions to deny, including the National Black Media Coalition and Dodge City Citizens for Better Broadcasting, while there were three informal objections (one of them from Stephan) and a competing application from Community Service Broadcasting, Inc. Local residents also claimed that KTTL had broadcast out-of-date weather reports and failed to offer advertising time.After dropping the Gale and Wickstrom broadcasts early in 1983, the programs returned to KTTL in late September, with one edition calling President Ronald Reagan a "Communist".