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$1,000 Settlement for School District STA Violations

The Media Bureau reached a $1,000 settlement with an Illinois school district over incorrect FCC filings and a long period of silence for School District #99’s WDGC-FM Downers Grove, Illinois, said a consent decree listed in Monday’s Daily Digest. The…

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station incorrectly certified on a license renewal application that it hadn’t been silent for 12 months and didn’t notify the FCC on time of the discontinued operations, though the agency granted it special temporary authority to go silent in 2019 and then two extensions due to technical issues and the COVID-19 pandemic, the consent decree said. WDGC also didn’t submit biennial ownership reports and equal employment opportunity program filings on time, the consent decree said. The bureau rejected an informal objection to the station's renewal application, saying that it's within discretion to extend the station's STA.