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Entercom Radio Stations Fined $220,000 by F.C.C.

Dateline: 12/24/04

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The Federal Communications Commission has fined (Notice of Apparent Liability For Forfeiture) KQRC-FM, Leavenworth, Kansas, and KFH(AM), Wichita, Kansas, for willfully and repeatedly airing apparently indecent material during multiple broadcasts of the “Dare and Murphy Show.”

Both stations are owned by Entercom.

The Commission proposed a fine in the maximum amount allowed by law: $27,500 for each of the four apparently indecent broadcasts by the two stations for a total proposed forfeiture of $220,000.

The Commission concluded that the material in these broadcasts appeared to meet the agency's indecency definition. Specifically, the program materials included repeated, graphic and explicit sexual descriptions that were pandering, titillating or used to shock the audience. The Commission proposed a forfeiture for the maximum statutory amount because of the egregious nature of the violations and Entercom’s history of prior indecent broadcasts.

- From a Federal Communications Commission News Release

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