FCC acted on at least 8 licenses up for renewal, finding children...
FCC acted on at least 8 licenses up for renewal, finding children’s TV programming obligation violations. But all the licenses were renewed. P.D. Communications, licensee of WVAG (Ch. 44, UPN) Valdosta, Ga., drew a $10,000 fine for violating FCC rules requiring reports and records concerning children’s programming commercial limits and TV program lists. The FCC said kid files were missing from the public file back to June 2003 and that the station didn’t learn this until it prepared a renewal application. The FCC granted license renewals for 7 stations owned by Libco Inc. even though they either failed to publicize the existence of children’s programming reports or in “isolated instances” exceeded kid’s TV commercial curbs. The FCC said granting the renewals was in the public interest. .HEADLINE
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