Source: https://www.fcc.gov/print/node/61746
Timestamp: 2015-11-27 15:43:55
Document Index: 785927568

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 503', '§ 1', '§ 73', '§ 73', '§ 73', '§ 73', '§ 73']

DA 14-166
Facility I.D. No. 8661
Licensee of Station WOI-DT
NAL/Acct. No.: 201441420004 Ames, IA
FRN: 0003476983
In this Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (“NAL”) issued pursuant to Section 503(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), and Section 1.80 of the Commission’s Rules (the “Rules”),1 the Commission finds that Capital Communications Company, Inc. (the “Licensee”), licensee of Station WOI-DT, Ames, Iowa (the “Station”), apparently willfully and repeatedly violated: (i) Section 73.3526(e)(11)(iii) of the Rules2 by failing to file with the Commission in a timely manner Children’s Television Programming Reports (FCC Form 398) for four quarters and (ii) Section 73.3514(a) of the Rules3 by failing to report these violations its license renewal application (FCC Form 303-S). Based upon our review of the facts and circumstances before us, we conclude that the Licensee is liable for a monetary forfeiture in the amount of six thousand dollars ($6,000) for its apparent willful and repeated violations of Sections 73.3526 (e)(11)(iii) and 73.3514(a) of the Rules.
Section 73.3526 of the Rules requires each commercial broadcast licensee to maintain a public inspection file containing specific types of information related to station operations.4 As set forth in subsection 73.3526(e)(11)(iii), each commercial television licensee is required to prepare and place in its public inspection file a Children’s Television Programming Report (FCC Form 398) for each calendar quarter reflecting, inter alia, the efforts that it made during that quarter to serve the educational and informational needs of children. That subsection also requires licensees to file the reports with the Commission and to publicize the existence and location of the reports.5 In addition, Section 73.3514(a) of the Rules provides that “[e]ach application shall include all information called for by the particular form on which the application is required to be filed….”6
Section IV, Question 3 of license renewal 1 47 U.S.C. § 503(b); 47 C.F.R. § 1.80.2 47 C.F.R. § 73.3526.3 47 C.F.R. § 73.3514(a).4 47 C.F.R. § 73.3526.5 47 C.F.R. § 73.3526(e)(11)(iii).6 47 C.F.R. § 73.3514(a).
application requires a licensee to certify that required documentation “has been placed in the public file at the appropriate times.”7
On September 26, 2013, the Licensee filed with the Commission its license renewal
application for the Station.8 In Section IV, Question 3 of its renewal application, the Licensee certifies that during the previous license