The FCC Enforcement Bureau ordered Fabrice Polynice to pay...
The FCC Enforcement Bureau ordered Fabrice Polynice to pay a $25,000 fine for operating an unlicensed radio station on the frequency 90.1 MHz in North Miami, Fla. Polynice operated the station “on six different days during March to July 2012…
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from three different locations in North Miami,” the bureau said in an order (http://bit.ly/XX7F3f). The bureau found Polynice’s claim “that someone else operated the unlicensed broadcast radio station unconvincing,” it said. In a separate order, the bureau also ordered Thomas Costa to pay $1,200 for operating radio transmitting equipment on the frequency 87.9 MHz in Iowa City, Iowa, without commission authorization, it said (http://bit.ly/XXbENp). The bureau reduced the fine from the originally proposed amount of $10,000, it said. “Based on the financial documents provided by Mr. Costa, we find sufficient basis to reduce the forfeiture to $1,200.” The bureau proposed a $10,000 fine for Romayne Davis, who allegedly operated an unlicensed radio transmitter on the frequency 89.5 MHz in Oakland Park, Fla., it said in a notice of apparent liability (http://bit.ly/ZiBRrC). A review of the FCC’s records revealed that no license or authorization “was issued to Mr. Davis or to anyone else to operate a radio station on 89.5 MHz at this location,” it said.