FCC Proposes Yet More Kids TV Fines

FCC PROPOSES YET MORE KIDS TV FINES
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The FCC has proposed fining three TV stations a total of $39,000 for violations of its children's TV reporting rules. The Commission has been reprimanding and fining numerous stations for similar violations as it works through a backlog of license renewals. The FCC found all the violations, which the stations volunteered in their applications for license renewal, "willful and repeated." It has tended only to warn stations over what it decides are isolated incidents, but omissions of several years are likely to draw a fine, and inadvertence is generally no defense. The stations now have to either pay the fines or tell the FCC why it thinks it shouldn't have to.
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