Source: https://www.fcc.gov/print/node/47598
Timestamp: 2015-10-07 02:50:06
Document Index: 64983512

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 503', '§ 1', '§ 0', '§ 73', '§ 73', '§ 73']

DA 13-568
Facility I.D. No. 67532
Licensee of Station KSBS-LP, Denver, Colorado )
NAL/Acct. 201341420005
FRN: 0017203472
1. In this Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (“NAL”)1 we find that Denver Digital Television, LLC (the “Licensee”), licensee of Class A television station KSBS-LP, Denver, Colorado (the “Station”), apparently willfully and/or repeatedly violated the Commission’s Rules by: (1) failing to place in its public inspection files the Station’s quarterly TV issues/programs lists, in violation of Section 73.3526(e)(11)(i)2 and (2) failing to file with the Commission, and place in its public inspection files, the Station’s Children’s Television Programming Reports, in violation of Section 73.3526(e)(11)(iii)3. Based upon our review of the facts and circumstances before us, we conclude that the Licensee is apparently liable for a monetary forfeiture in the amount of Twenty Three Thousand Dollars ($23,000). II.
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)(i), each commercial television licensee must prepare and place in its public inspection file a TV issues/programs list which details programs that have provided the station’s most significant treatment of community issues during the preceding three month period. 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. 3. On March 24, 2011, the Deputy Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau, issued a letter to the Licensee (“Letter”), stating that Commission records indicated that it failed to make the required Form 1 This NAL is 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”). See 47 U.S.C. § 503(b); 47 C.F.R. § 1.80. The Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau, has delegated authority to issue the NAL under Section 0.283 of the Rules. See 47 C.F.R. § 0.283.
2 47 C.F.R. § 73.3526(e)(11)(i).3 47 C.F.R. § 73.3526(e)(11)(iii). 4 47 C.F.R. § 73.3526.
398 electronic filings for the Station for the second, third, and fourth quarters in 2009 and all four quarters in 2010. The Letter required the Licensee to provide information, supported by the declaration of a person with personal knowledge,5 identifying the quarters for which a Children’s Television Programming Report was prepared and placed in the Stations’ public inspection files, and the location of the files. The Letter further required that this information be filed within 30 days, and stated that failure to provide the requested information would result in the institution of a forfeiture proceeding and/or loss of Class A television status. On April 22, 2011, the Lice