Proposed $15,000 Fine, Shortened Renewal for Licensee Who Isn't 'Computer Literate'
Broadcast licensee Hubbard’s Advertising Agency faces a proposed fine of $15,000 and a shortened license renewal period over repeated violations of the FCC’s public file rules, said a Media Bureau order and notice of apparent liability in Friday’s Daily Digest.…
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Hubbard’s is the licensee of AM station WLLL Lynchburg, Virginia, and in the renewal application, Hubbard’s said station operator Fletcher Hubbard “is 92 years old and is not computer literate." He didn't understand how to access WLLL’s online public file "let alone how to upload documents to the file.” Hubbard’s adult children haven’t been able to locate the issues and programs lists that are missing from the station’s file, the NAL and order said. The children said they will make certain going forward that WLLL will be in compliance, the NAL and order said. “Neither the negligent acts or omissions of station employees or agents, nor the subsequent remedial actions undertaken by the licensee, excuse or nullify a licensee’s rule violation,” the bureau said. WLLL’s renewal application is being granted for two years instead of the usual eight, to allow the agency to monitor the station’s compliance.