The FCC Media Bureau fined Glendive Broadcasting and...
The FCC Media Bureau fined Glendive Broadcasting and its KXGN-TV Glendive, Montana, station $15,000 for not filing children’s TV reports on time and failing to report the violations in a 2005 license renewal, said a bureau forfeiture order Friday (http://bit.ly/1pkYza4).…
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It said the station failed to file 22 reports on time since 1998. Though Glendive said the bureau should reduce its fine because some of the violations occurred beyond the statute of limitations, the bureau disagreed and assessed the full fine. Centex Television, licensee of Class A KRHD-CD Bryan, Texas, faces a possible $1,000 fine for failing to publicize the location of its kids’ programming reports, said a notice of apparent liability (http://bit.ly/1mXOtOg). KRHD hadn’t publicized its reports since the beginning of 2013 due to an administrative error, the order said. The bureau also proposed a $6,000 fine for Killeen Christian Broadcasting, licensee of Class A KPLE Killeen, Texas, for failing to file kids’ TV reports on time and failing to file ownership reports, said an NAL (http://bit.ly/1pl7EQe). The proposed fine isn’t for $16,000, which in one instance the NAL says erroneously, said a Media Bureau spokeswoman.