The FCC continued a spate of fines and show-cause orders to...
The FCC continued a spate of fines and show-cause orders to Class A TV stations (CD March 9 p18) that haven’t filed required reports. For not filing children’s programming reports, Omni Broadcasting, licensee of KOMI Woodward, Okla. (http://xrl.us/bmxvmm), and Centex…
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TV’s KRHD Bryan, Texas (http://xrl.us/bmxvms), got Media Bureau notices of apparent liability for $3,000 each. The bureau required the owners of another 16 stations in three orders (http://xrl.us/bmxvna, http://xrl.us/bmxvnc and http://xrl.us/bmxvng) to show why they shouldn’t be downgraded to regular low-power status because they didn’t keep up required reports, broadcast the minimum number of required hours a day or adhere to other Class A obligations. Regular low-power status means the stations would lose Class A interference protections, which industry lawyers have said means the commission could change their channel locations without compensating them as part of a repacking before an incentive auction of TV stations’ spectrum.