The FCC for a second time this week proposed to...
The FCC for a second time this week proposed to fine an unauthorized radio station more than a $10,000 base penalty (CD March 7 p13) because of repeatedly not stopping broadcasting. An Enforcement Bureau forfeiture order (http://xrl.us/bmxg39) for $25,000 went…
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to Gabriel Garcia for operating an unlicensed station “on various FM broadcast band frequencies” in San Jose, Calif. A separate bureau notice of apparent liability for $8,000 (http://xrl.us/bmxg4m) went to Hoosier Public Radio for operating a transmitter for noncommercial educational station WRFM(FM) Wilkinson, Ind., about three miles away from where the commission authorized it. Proposed FCC fines Wednesday of $13,000 apiece to four Class A stations (CD March 8 p13) offer a “reprieve” of sorts from recent Media Bureau orders to others of that class of TV station saying they'd face a downgrade to regular low-power status for not filing reports, a broadcast lawyer wrote. Scott Flick of Pillsbury was “at least somewhat relieved to see a trio of decisions ... that are largely identical to the February decisions with one big exception -- the FCC proposed fining the stations for failing to file all of their children’s television reports rather than seeking to revoke their Class A status,” he wrote Wednesday on the law firm’s blog (http://xrl.us/bmxg42). “Unlike the licensees in the February decisions, the licensees named in today’s decisions promptly responded to the letters of inquiry sent by the FCC, and upon realizing that they had failed to file all of their children’s television reports, belatedly completed and submitted those reports to the FCC."