Magic Broadcasting Agrees to $125,000 Consent Decree for Broadcast Contest, Tower Lighting Violations
Florida radio group Magic Broadcasting agreed to a $125,000 settlement with the FCC Enforcement Bureau over violations of the agency’s antenna lighting and broadcast contest rules, said an order and consent decree Thursday. Magic admitted it didn’t perform required inspections…
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of its tower, alert the FAA that the tower lights had gone out or tell the FCC it acquired the tower, the consent decree said. The contest violations were connected with a scavenger hunt, which complaints said wasn’t run according to the announced rules, and a call-in contest, which allegedly aired prerecorded fake callers, the order and consent decree said. “Although queried repeatedly on these matters, Magic Broadcasting would neither confirm nor deny the veracity of the allegations” made in the complaints and “maintains that it has no information’” about the prerecorded programming, the filings said. Under the consent decree, Magic has to institute a compliance plan, report future violations and send regular compliance reports to the FCC for five years. Magic didn’t respond to a request for comment.