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FCC Maintains Robust Enforcement of PIRATE Act; Issues NIPRBs, Adopts Consent Decrees, and Affirms Forfeitures October 29, 2025

Across the summer and into the fall, the FCC has continued to leverage its authority under the Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act (the “PIRATE Act” or “Act”) by...

Commission Settles More Children’s Commercial Time Limit Violations October 29, 2025

Since we last wrote about a spate of FCC Consent Decrees resolving investigations into violations of the limits on the amount of commercial matter in children’s programming, additional Consent Decrees...

New Hampshire AM Station Receives Notice of Violation for Alleged Failure to Comply with Station Identification Rules October 29, 2025

A mid-September Notice of Violation (the “NOV”) alleges that the licensee of a New Hampshire AM radio station (the “Station”) failed to make hourly station identifications as required by FCC...

Louisiana FM Translator Licensee Enters into Consent Decree Regarding Translator’s Origination of Programming October 29, 2025

By a mid-September Order, the FCC entered into a Consent Decree with a Louisiana FM translator station licensee (the “Licensee”) resolving an ongoing FCC investigation into a years-old Notice of...

Three Radio Broadcasters Face Fines for Unauthorized Transfers of Control October 29, 2025

Near the end of the summer, the FCC came to agreements with three radio station licensees to settle unauthorized transfers of control—one Consent Decree (the “PR Consent Decree”) imposes a...

Broadcaster Enters into Consent Decree, Agrees to Pay $222,500, After Accidentally Airing “Pornographic Video” October 29, 2025

Over the summer, the FCC inked a Consent Decree with a west-coast broadcaster and its parent company (the “Licensee”) addressing the broadcast of obscene or indecent material on one of...

Large Television Ownership Group Agrees to $500,000 Penalty to Resolve Pending Station License Renewal Applications July 9, 2025

A large broadcast ownership group (the “Broadcaster”) has agreed to pay $500,000 and implement multiple FCC rule compliance plans as part of a Consent Decree that resolves several FCC enforcement...

Audio Division Revisits Two-Year-Old CP Grant While Denying Two FM Stations’ Applications to Modify Community of License; Proposes Modifying One Station’s Current CP to Effectively Rescind Prior Grant November 8, 2024

By recent Memorandum Opinion and Order and Order to Show Cause (the “Order” and “Show Cause Order,” respectively), the Media Bureau’s Audio Division (the “Division”) denied two unbuilt FM stations’...

LPFM Station Agrees to $9,000 Penalty for Ownership and Associated Reporting Violations, Failure to Comply with Local Public Notice Requirements, and Failure to Maintain Accuracy of Information in Pending Application November 8, 2024

By recent Order, the FCC entered into a Consent Decree with a California low-power FM station licensee (the “Licensee”) resolving an ongoing FCC investigation into third-party allegations that the Licensee had...

FCC Proposes $16,000 Fine for AM and FM Radio Station Licensee’s Apparent Unauthorized Transfer of Control November 8, 2024

By recent Memorandum Opinion and Order and Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “Order”), the FCC proposed a $16,000 fine for an Oregon AM and FM radio station licensee’s (the...