The FCC ordered a $6,000 forfeiture for ZGS...
The FCC ordered a $6,000 forfeiture for ZGS Broadcasting for its Melbourne, Fla., station WMVJ-CD, which allegedly violated children’s TV filing requirements and failed to report the violations in its license renewal application, said a forfeiture order (http://bit.ly/167wBu4). The Media…
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Bureau had originally proposed a $15,000 violation, but reduced it after ZGS presented evidence that many of the violations had occurred under a previous licensee. The commission also ordered a $12,000 fine for Waters & Brock Communications’ Smithfield-Selma, N.C., station WARZ-LD for the same offenses, said an agency order (http://bit.ly/14fjhQV). The bureau had originally proposed a $16,000 fine, but reduced the amount after Waters & Brock submitted financial documents as evidence that it could not pay the higher fine, said the order. The FCC also proposed $21,000 in total fines for other TV stations missing deadlines to file children’s programming reports, said Media Bureau notices of apparent liability released this week. Evansville Low-Power Partnership faces a proposed $18,000 penalty because its Evansville, Ind., stations WYYW-CD and WTSN-CD “willfully and/or repeatedly” violated children’s TV filing requirements (http://bit.ly/19b3Uc2). Mid-South Broadcasting faces a proposed $3,000 fine for its Holly Springs, Mich., station WBII-CD’s violation of the kids’ TV report rules (http://bit.ly/153zCFR).