Media Bureau Reaches a $17,500 Consent Decree With Mountain Broadcasting
The FCC Media Bureau and Mountain Broadcasting Corp. reached a $17,500 settlement over violations of public file rules, kids’ TV rules and the requirement that stations display the E/I (educational-information) symbol on core programming, said a consent decree released Thursday.…
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The violations happened between 2009 and 2015 at WMBC-TV Newton, New Jersey, which also didn’t disclose the violations on its license renewal application, the consent decree said. Mountain Broadcasting said Christian Global Network provides most of the station’s core programming, and as “a worldwide network,” CGN supplies programming to countries “that may not follow the FCC’s model for identifying children’s programming,” and that may have contributed to the issue, according to the consent decree. Mountain Broadcasting will educate its employees about FCC requirements and “implement a consumer education program on the meaning of the ‘E/I’ symbol for their foreign language viewers and report to the Bureau regarding its efforts,” the pact said.