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College Radio and the FCC |
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All college radio stations come under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission, and while they do allow these stations a little leeway, they also expect that universities will keep their station in line and keeping up with all the things usually required of any station.
It doesnt pay to run afoul of the FCC because they do pay attention and they can yank a license or impose some heft fines for infractions. This is something that Gaston College learned the hard way. The FCC requires that stations keep current public inspection files which contains any pending applications, ownership reports, programming lists, donor lists and more. Theres alot of paper work. Well, at Gaston they failed to make those available and public to someone who appeared and wanted to see them. Now the reason the man wanted to look at them was a little nefarious but it is
Something he was entitled to see. As it turned out, Gaston was keeping proper records, but their failure to show their files to someone who asked was a big no no. A mistake that cost them $8000 in fines from the FCC, who would have |
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