FCC Hits Clear Channel With Record Fines

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WASHINGTON, D.C. The Federal Communica-
tions Commission on Tuesday proposed a record $715,000 in indecency fines against broadcast subsidiaries of radio giant Clear Channel Communications, and it turned its attention to coarse fare on TV with a proposed $27,500 fine against Young Broadcasting’s KRON in San Francisco.

The FCC said it wants to apply the statutory maximum of $27,500 against the Clear Channel companies for each of 26 airings of the Bubba the Love Sponge program on several stations over several days in 2001.


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