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$540,000 FCC Penalty for Cumulus Station Missing Formal Sponsorship Identification on Issue Ad Campaign

By David Oxenford|2016-01-08T07:58:28-06:00January 8th, 2016|Legal News|

The FCC yesterday released, and trumpeted, a Consent Decree reached with Cumulus Radio for a violation at one of its New Hampshire stations where full sponsorship identification announcements were not made on issue ads promoting an electric company’s construction project in New Hampshire. In the Consent Decree, Cumulus agreed to pay a $540,000 penalty to… Continue Reading

One-A-Day Sponsorship IDs?

By Steve Lovelady|2015-03-29T09:58:12-05:00March 29th, 2015|Legal News|

FCC invites comments on proposal by coalition of nine radio licensees to shift sponsorship IDs primarily to Internet In an unusual petition that was filed last November – but took five months to hit the FCC’s public radar screen – a ...

Issue-Oriented Spots: Who’s The REAL Sponsor?

By Harry Cole|2014-09-04T09:16:06-05:00September 4th, 2014|Legal News|

Bureau tosses two complaints alleging inadequate sponsorship IDs – but that may not be good news in the long run. Several months ago we reported on complaints filed against a dozen or so TV stations with respect to the stations’ alleged fai...