CBS said it reviewed and enhanced its procedures...
CBS said it reviewed and enhanced its procedures related to political ads as a result of a complaint against its WWJ-TV Detroit. The Campaign Legal Center and the Sunlight Foundation filed complaints against WWJ and stations owned by Gannett, Scripps…
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and others alleging that they didn’t publicly disclose information about sponsors of political ads this year (CD May 2 p6). CBS also “accelerated the hiring of additional staff to assist with the political advertising disclosure process,” it said in a response to the FCC Media Bureau request for information. The bureau directed the stations to respond May 27 (CD May 13 p11). The bureau told us the other companies responded by the due date, but it did not provide copies of their filings, which had not been posted on the FCC website by our deadline. When CBS staff received the complaint May 1, it reviewed WWJ’s online file and found that an incorrect NAB form for a previous Senate Majority PAC advertising buy in 2013 was inadvertently uploaded to the station’s online political file, CBS said. The staff then uploaded the correct NAB form to its file, it said. The form identified the candidate and the relevant information on the office being sought and the election date, CBS said.