The FCC Enforcement Bureau adopted a consent decree...
The FCC Enforcement Bureau adopted a consent decree to settle allegations that KRXA(AM) Carmel Valley, Calif., violated sponsorship identification laws and indecency laws. The FCC investigated a complaint that the station broadcast a regularly scheduled call-in program “without disclosing that…
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the host had paid the station to appear,” the bureau said in an order (http://bit.ly/Qm5J2g). The commission also received a complaint that indecency laws were violated based on language used by that show’s host, it said. The station is to be sold to a nonprofit broadcaster, the bureau said. Due to financial hardship, KRXA will pay $15,000 to resolve the allegations, it said. If the station isn’t sold, KRXA will implement a three-year compliance plan, the bureau said. The consent decree resolves and terminates the bureau’s investigation, it said.