A Silver Spring television station has been fined $18,000 by the Federal Communications Commission, after it missed deadlines to upload program lists and report its children's programming details. WJAL Channel 68.1's ownership told the FCC that it failed to comply because it did not realize it had to continue filing the reports after it relinquished its spectrum-usage rights via auction to WUSA. The FCC replied that ignorance of the law was not an excuse, and that it will not drop the fine.
However, the commission said it concluded that WJAL's failure to report was not an egregious or intentional action, and that it has continued to serve the public interest during the period in question. As a result, the FCC said, it will renew the station's broadcasting license. WJAL now broadcasts its digital signal from WUSA's Tenleytown transmission tower, and is the Washington, D.C.-area affiliate of the Falun Gong-backed New Tang Dynasty Television network. WJAL's fine was first reported by Broadcast Law Blog.
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