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FCC issues multiple forfeitures for unauthorized marketing of transmitters

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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December 28 2012

This month, the FCC issued Forfeiture Orders against two companies for marketing unauthorized transmitters, with both orders following up on Notices of

FCC proposes $35,000 in fines for unauthorized radio operations

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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December 28 2012

The FCC assessed a combined total of $35,000 in proposed fines this month against two individuals whom agents discovered were operating unlicensed radio

FCC issues second fine to cable TV operator for $236,500

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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September 28 2012

As we previously reported in October 2011, the operator of a cable television system in Florida was fined $25,000 for a variety of violations of the FCC’s Rules, including failing to install and maintain operational Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) equipment, failing to operate its system within the required cable signal leakage limits, and failing to register the cable system with the FCC

FCC issues a total of $41,000 in fines for broadcaster airing prank telephone calls

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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August 30 2012

The close of August in Washington, DC has brought with it a surge of beautiful weather, baseball excitement (for the first time in recent memory), and .. forfeiture orders related to the improper recording of telephone calls for broadcast

Licensee in Wyoming slammed with $68,000 in proposed fines for STL Ooerations

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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July 30 2012

July was not a good month for the licensee of FM radio stations located in Casper, Wyoming

Station fined $8,000 for failing to maintain emergency alert system (EAS) equipment and records

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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July 30 2012

A Florida radio station was fined $8,000 this month after the FCC determined it had failed to comply with EAS requirements

FCC ups the ante (again) for public inspection file violations

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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May 31 2012

Recently, Pillsbury has written about a trend toward $10,000 fines for all public inspection file violations

Noncommercial educational station airs expensive ads

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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May 31 2012

A recent fine against a noncommercial educational station serves as a warning to noncommercial licensees to be mindful of on-air acknowledgements and advertisements

Unauthorized operation and failure to maintain main studio lead to fines

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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May 31 2012

A $21,500 Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture was recently issued against the licensee of two radio stations in South Dakota for multiple violations of the FCC's main studio rule, failing to make the stations available for inspection, and operating one of the stations in violation of its authorization

FCC fines former licensee even though the licensee’s station license had earlier been cancelled

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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April 30 2012

On April 20, 2012, the FCC issued an $18,000 fine against the former licensee of a station in American Samoa for violations that occurred from 2000-2006, notwithstanding the fact that the station license had already been canceled over a year earlier