FCC admonished Daystar Public Radio, licensee of WKSG(FM) Cedar C...
FCC admonished Daystar Public Radio, licensee of WKSG(FM) Cedar Creek, Fla., for broadcasting ads and conducting “impermissible” fund-raising in violation of Communications Act. Agency said Daystar admitted that station had broadcast 5 announcements sponsored by for-profit entities and that…
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it had received consideration for airing messages. Station also acknowledged that it had solicited investment funds during interview with owner of for-profit company. Daystar said it assumed station management “better understood” parameters of on-air acknowledgments but was disappointed that management’s “grasp of this issue is faulty,” FCC said. Although it believed that no monetary sanction was warranted, agency said admonishment was necessary to “redress statutory and rule violations.”