University of Arkansas Board in $76,000 Settlement on FM Underwriting Violations
The University of Arkansas board agreed to pay $76,000 for violating FCC policies around noncommercial underwriting, said an Enforcement Bureau order in Tuesday’s Daily Digest. The UA affiliated Cossatot Community College’s Arkansas FM stations KPBU De Queen and KTYC Nashville…
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aired spots promoting underwriters' products and services, a consent decree said. Other broadcasters reported the violations -- from September 2016 -- and the licensee admitted to them after receiving FCC letters of inquiry. The agency hasn’t adopted quantitative guidelines on underwriting announcements but “has found that the longer the announcement, the more likely it is to contain material that is inconsistent with their ‘identification only’ purpose, the order said. The FCC “expects that licensees will exercise reasonable ‘good faith’ judgment in this area and affords some latitude to the judgments of licensees who do so.” The school must implement compliance and education programs and file compliance reports for five years.