Bulletin Categories: Enforcement Actions

In a recent Forfeiture Order (the “Order”), the FCC on a 3-2 party-line vote issued fines totaling $3,334,000 against more than 100 stations (each a “Station”) across the country—including several...

In a recent Forfeiture Order (the “Order”), the FCC fined the operator of a New York pirate radio station (the “Pirate Station”) $2,316,034 for “the longstanding illicit operation of an...

Two licensees of FM Translator Stations (each a “Translator”), in Tennessee and Mississippi, respectively, are facing FCC monetary fines for failing to timely file license renewal applications and for continuing...

Recently, the FCC issued an Order and Consent Decree (the “Decree”) to a Texas FM radio Licensee (the “Licensee”) for its failure to comply with the FCC’s online public inspection...

According to a recent Memorandum Opinion and Order (the “2024 Order”) issued by the Media Bureau’s Video Division, a Florida television station (the “Station”) has successfully obtained a reduction to...

Thus far in 2024, the FCC has issued two Notices of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “NALs”) preliminarily determining that several radio licensees apparently violated the FCC’s rules governing station-conducted...

Last Friday, the FCC leveraged its authority under the PIRATE Act to issue thirteen more Notices of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting (the “Notices”) to landowners across the New York metropolitan...

In a recent Letter Decision (the “2024 Order”), the FCC upheld its prior cancellation of a Kentucky AM station’s (the “Station”) broadcast license.  The 2024 Order comes in response to...

In two recent Orders and accompanying Consent Decrees (Order 1 and Order 2, collectively the “Orders”), the FCC adopted separate agreements with Oregon and Mississippi licensees (the “Licensees”) of noncommercial...

Last week, the FCC initiated a proceeding to revoke the license held by a Texas AM station (the “Station”) due to its failure to pay its 2022 annual regulatory fees...