Full FCC Approves $100,000 Consent Decree for Noncompliant Florida Broadcaster
The full FCC approved a $100,000 settlement with Florida TV licensee Budd Broadcasting, which owned a station that went off the air for long periods without authorization, violated numerous online public file and children's TV rules, and didn’t have a…
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signal strong enough to reach its community of license, said an order and consent decree released Wednesday. The order also approves the sale of Budd’s stations WFXU(TV) Live Oak, Florida, and WUFX-LD Tallahassee to Gray Television, which will in turn have to abide by the conditions of the consent decree. The order also grants Gray a failing station waiver to allow that transaction to proceed. Under the consent decree, the licenses for the stations are renewed for two years, and they must be operating at correct power levels and following FCC rules within 30 days.