The FCC fined A Radio Co. $25,000 for not making a voluntary...
The FCC fined A Radio Co. $25,000 for not making a voluntary payment of $8,000 or living up to a consent decree involving WEGA(AM) Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. Although the company showed it may not be able to afford the…
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$8,000, it didn’t follow the deal’s terms, an Enforcement Bureau forfeiture order said Friday (http://xrl.us/bnbvi7). “The Commission expects parties to honor agreements made in consent decrees, and A Radio’s failure to do so undermines the value of consent decrees as an efficient means to resolve investigations without further expenditure of public resources. Nothing in the record in this case, including A Radio’s ability to pay claim, warrants any leniency or mitigation of the proposed forfeiture amount.” The bureau said earlier this month it won’t enforce a Puerto Rico court’s order that WEGA be attached to a bailee in a case involving A Radio (CD June 5 p13). The bureau separately said a West Palm Beach, Fla., man faces a $15,000 penalty for broadcasting on 92.5 MHz there without a license, in a notice of apparent liability to Pierre Nixon Jean (http://xrl.us/bnbvjq).