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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 Denies Florida LPFM Station’s Reconsideration Petition, Upholds $25,000 Forfeiture for Several Violations, Including Inadequate Maintenance of EAS Equipment July 1, 2024

Recently, the FCC released a Memorandum Opinion and Order (the “Order”), in which the Chief of the Enforcement Bureau denied a Florida LPFM station’s (“Station”) Petition for Reconsideration (the “Petition”)...

Informal Objection Prompts FCC Examination Into and Dismissal of Recently Filed Application for New LPFM Station February 16, 2024

An applicant for a Virginia-based low power FM (“LPFM”) facility recently found itself with its application dismissed after an Informal Objection prompted an FCC Staff examination into the applicant’s compliance...

LPFM Application Window Closes with Approximately 1,335 Applications Filed; FM Translator Modifications Again Permitted December 19, 2023

After a last-minute extension to the previously announced filing window for new low power FM (“LPFM”) stations, the first LPFM application window in approximately a decade closed at 12:00 PM...

FCC Delays LPFM Filing Window Until December; FM Translator Modification Applications to Remain Frozen Through Extended Window November 1, 2023

By recent Public Notice (the “Notice”), the FCC announced that the forthcoming window for applications for new low power FM (“LPFM”) stations (originally scheduled for November) has been delayed until...

Media Bureau Announces Filing Procedures and Requirements for November 2023 LPFM Filing Window; LPFM and FM Translator Application Filing Freeze Coming September 1, 2023 August 4, 2023

According to a recent Public Notice (the “Notice”), the FCC is in the process of preparing for the forthcoming year-end filing window for new low-power FM (“LPFM”) station construction permits. ...

Consent Decree Including $10,000 Fine Resolves LPFM Station’s Violations of Underwriting Rules February 19, 2021

The FCC’s underwriting rules were at issue in a recent Consent Decree (the “Decree”) resolving the broadcast by a noncommercial educational (“NCE”) low power FM (“LPFM”) licensee of nine announcements...

$25,000 Fine Proposed for LPFM Station’s Alleged Unauthorized Station Operation, Failure to Make Station Available for FCC Inspection, and EAS Compliance Issues December 21, 2020

A Florida low power FM (“LPFM”) licensee has received a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “Notice”) proposing the second-highest fine addressed in this memo—$25,000—for the licensee’s apparent failures...

$1,500 Fine Proposed for Low Power FM Broadcaster’s Late Filing of License Renewal Application July 21, 2020

Continuing the theme of “lessons to be learned” from license renewal enforcement actions, in another Memorandum Opinion and Order and Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “NAL”), the FCC...

Apparent Violations of FCC’s Underwriting Rules Draw $15,000 Proposed Fine July 21, 2020

A low power FM (“LPFM”) licensee’s alleged airing of commercial material may end up costing the station $15,000, according to a recent Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “NAL”)...

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