The FCC Enforcement Bureau found a man liable for a $25,000 forfeiture...
The FCC Enforcement Bureau found a man liable for a $25,000 forfeiture concerning the operation of unlicensed radio transmitters on the frequency 97.7 MHz in Miami. Despite instructions to cease the unlicensed operation, the record shows that Gary Feldman “attempted…
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to evade future detection by moving to a different location to resume the unlicensed operation,” the notice of apparent liability said (http://bit.ly/W6hNGQ). “Because Mr. Feldman consciously operated the station and did so on more than one day, the apparent violations of the act were both willful and repeated.” The bureau also found that the violation in this case justifies a $15,000 upward adjustment from the base forfeiture amount of $10,000, it said. Feldman continued to defy a court order requiring him to satisfy payment to the federal government, “and then attempt[ed] to evade detection from FCC agents by moving his radio station from his residence to a commercial building after being reminded that his unlicensed operation contravened” the Communications Act, the bureau said. In a separate order, the Media Bureau adopted a consent decree with Vision Latina Broadcasting, Port Neches, Texas, and Christian Ministries of the Valley, Weslaco, Texas. The consent decree resolves issues arising from “tardiness of the captioned license renewal application and a petition to deny filed against the captioned license assignment application” for Vision Latina’s KBPO(AM), the bureau said (http://bit.ly/15ysLqd). The bureau dismissed the petition and the entities will collectively make a $10,000 voluntary contribution to the U.S. Treasury, it said.