WASHINGTON: Weber Merritt on June 5 withdrew its protest of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) award of a $3.5 million account to Burson-Marsteller. The agency cited the time-sensitive nature of the contact, which called for consumer awareness aid for the digital television transition, in withdrawing the complaint but it maintained its reason for the initial protest was valid.
"We understand that the intense timeframe of this project required the FCC to select a vendor with great haste, thus contributing to a ...