New York Post

Oz off air amid elex run

- Joshua Rhett Miller

The “Dr. Oz Show” is going dark in several major TV markets after its celebrity surgeon declared himself a US Senate candidate in Pennsylvan­ia.

Fox stations in New York City and Philadelph­ia have pulled the show in light of the Federal Communicat­ions Commission’s “equal time” rules for broadcast TV stations, Fox communicat­ions VP Erica Keane confirmed to The Post Thursday.

The rules give rival candidates the ability to request matching air time.

But although Dr. Mehmet Oz is running for office in the Keystone State, some Fox stations in New York City have had to drop the show, too, because parts of northeaste­rn Pennsylvan­ia get New York TV channels.

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