The FCC Media Bureau proposed a $13,000 fine...
The FCC Media Bureau proposed a $13,000 fine for Liberty Communications' Class-A Alton, Ill., station for failing to file timely children’s TV reports and quarterly issues/programs lists, said a notice of apparent liability released Monday (http://bit.ly/1cqbCzU). Liberty didn’t file issues/programs…
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lists for 26 quarters and didn’t file kids’ TV reports on time for 17 quarters, the NAL said. Liberty can avoid paying the fine if it agrees to revert the Class A to a low-power TV station, the NAL said. The bureau has drawn criticism from LPTV backers for making such offers in other instances of missing kids’ reports, and in some cases the licensees accepted the downgrade (CD March 21/12 p3). The bureau also proposed a $6,000 fine for Capital Communications for its station WOI-DT Ames, Iowa, said an NAL released Monday (http://bit.ly/1gq09mW). The proposed violation is for failing to file timely children’s TV reports for four quarters and failing to include that information on a license renewal application. The bureau proposed a $3,000 fine for the Eternal Family Network, licensee of Class A TV station KEFN St. Louis, also for a lack of timely filed children’s TV reports, another NAL said (http://bit.ly/1h8ip9i). The bureau issued an admonishment to KPLR Inc., licensee of KLPR-TV St. Louis, for violating children’s TV rules against host-selling (http://bit.ly/1jtdOyx). The violation occurred when characters from a kids show were also featured in a cereal commercial that aired during the show’s broadcast on CW. Several other CW affiliate stations have been similarly admonished over the same incident, which occurred in 2006 (CD Feb 5 p16). The admonishments are issued individually as each involved station comes up for license renewal, a Media Bureau spokeswoman said.