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Obligation to Provide Emergency Information to Persons with Hearing Disabilities

August 2007
Mindful of Hurricane Dean, and with three months left in this year’s hurricane season, it is imperative that television station broadcasters ensure they have adequate policies in place and reliable procedures tested to insure that persons with hearing disabilities have timely access to the emergency information that such stations have provided aurally in their programming.

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June 2007
Topics include:

  • FCC Fines Radio Station $4,200 for Lack of Effective Tower Fences
  • FCC Fines Television Station After Discovering Deserted Main Studio
  • FCC Fines Radio Station for Airing Prank Phone Call
  • FCC Officially Increases Maximum Fine for Indecency and Profanity

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4/13/2007
The FCC today released four Orders adopting Consent Decrees with CBS Radio, Citadel Broadcasting Corporation (“Citadel”), Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (“Clear Channel”), and Entercom Communications Corp. (“Entercom”). Pursuant to the Consent Decrees, the broadcasters agreed to pay a combined $12.5 million to close investigations into possible violations of the FCC’s sponsorship identification rules. Specifically, the Consent Decrees resolved allegations that the broadcasters may have accepted cash or other consideration from record labels in exchange for airplay of artists from those labels without disclosing those arrangements, a practice commonly referred to as “payola.”

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