A large radio licensee faces a six-figure penalty for multiple violations of the FCC’s sponsorship identification rule coupled with its failure to comply with the terms of a prior consent...
Read morePolitical file consent decrees continue to be inked between the Commission and various radio broadcasters at a fairly steady clip. By our count, more than a dozen political file consent...
Read moreOver the past several months, the Commission has issued multiple Notices of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “Notices”) for TV and radio licensees’ apparent failures to timely file license renewal...
Read moreCommercial stations aren’t the only ones who have been subject to recent FCC enforcement actions: another recent Consent Decree (the “Decree”) resolves a noncommercial Rhode Island low power FM Station...
Read moreIn another case involving impermissible variances between an FCC authorization and the operations of the facility to which it applies, an Arizona FM translator licensee has entered into a Consent...
Read moreA Florida FM station’s recent slate of FCC rule violations have been resolved by a Consent Decree (the “Decree”) that levels the highest fine discussed in this “Eye on Enforcement”...
Read moreAccording to a recent Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “NAL”), $20,000 is the price a Maryland TV licensee may have to pay for airing commercials for “Hot Wheels...
Read moreIn a different development of potentially great significance relating to retransmission consent, the Commission earlier this month issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order and Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture...
Read moreWe have learned that many radio broadcasters across the country whose recent license renewal applications have yet to be granted (or denied) have begun receiving correspondence from the Media Bureau,...
Read moreIn another noteworthy Order and Consent Decree (the “Decree”), the Media Bureau resolved an investigation into two radio broadcasters (the “Broadcasters”) who allegedly assigned the broadcast licenses for two radio...
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