The FCC has proposed fining TV stations owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar Media Group more than $3 million collectively for alleged violations of the agency’s children’s-TV programming rules. The stations “apparently willfully and repeatedly violated rules limiting commercial matter in children’s programming,“ the FCC said, but conceded the actions were inadvertent.
STATION ADVISORY
FCC Changes Children’s TV Rules Deadlines
The FCC gave a present to TV broadcasters at the end of last week by issuing a Public Notice announcing the effective date of the remaining changes to the children’s television rules, and postponing the filing date for the initial Children’s Television Programming Report, which was to be filed by Jan. 30, to March 30, 2020.
