The FCC's Broadcast Bureau recommended on May 1974 tying the wiretapping investigations into an enlarged review of WJMO and WLYT's license renewal hearings; this came as WFAB had their license renewal denied and the licenses for both WMET-TV and WFAN-TV were revoked. The commission's review board accepted this request on August 1974. Meanwhile, the license renewal hearings were delayed until the end of 1975, after a Freedom of Information Act request by United/Friendly into the FBI's report of their investigation could be resolved. Ultimately, the FCC could not find Eaton had any advance knowledge of the wiretapping, nor was there any direct culpability by United/Friendly outside of the misinterpretation of the Communications Act by Perkins.