The FCC Media Bureau admonished two North Carolina...
The FCC Media Bureau admonished two North Carolina Hearst stations for violations of FCC rules for advertising during children’s programming, according to letters issued Tuesday. WXII-TV Winston-Salem (http://bit.ly/1onxHEj) and WYFF Greenville (http://bit.ly/1p7ffjj) were admonished for the same October incident, when…
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the Web address for a kids show on the NBC network was shown briefly at the end of the show’s broadcast. Because the website contains an online shop, it violates FCC rules for ads during kids’ TV shows, the letters said. “We note that while the commercial matter may have been inserted into the program by the Station’s television network, this does not relieve the Station of responsibility for the violations,” the bureau said. The stations were admonished because the incident appears “isolated,” the letters said. Hearst had no immediate comment.