The FCC Media Bureau admonished two Georgia TV...
The FCC Media Bureau admonished two Georgia TV stations applying for renewal for violating the commission’s children’s television commercial limit rules, according to two letters filed with the commission Friday. WTOC-TV Savannah (http://bit.ly/13By9Ir) overran its limit for commercial content by…
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20 minutes and 30 seconds after a technical failure in November 2012 caused the station’s master control operator to reset the programming server during an episode of Liberty Kids II, which “re-cued” a paid program that had already aired earlier. The Media Bureau letter said the technical failure was “an extenuating circumstance” but that an admonishment was still appropriate. WUPA, Atlanta (http://bit.ly/17GGTAv) was admonished for a December 2006 incident, in which the station aired a commercial for Cocoa Pebbles during the show “Xiaolin Showdown” that contained shots of the show’s characters. The letter said that WUPA blamed the CW network for the error, but the Media Bureau ruled that the station’s dependence on a programmer to follow FCC rules “will not excuse or mitigate violations which do occur.” In a separate notice of apparent liability filed Friday (http://bit.ly/Z1Koi1), the Media Bureau also proposed fining the Detroit Free Press $2,000 for violations of the commission’s rules on publicizing the existence and location of children’s television reports at its WUSA, Washington.