[FFCF-PNA] Foreign Language Programming

[Rychard Withers]

While the article is talking about the multiple channels available with
HD-Radio, certain caveats are universal.

-Rych

 

http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/archives/digital-radio-caution-on-multicast-
streams-remember-its-still-overtheair-broadcasting.html

 

Foreign language programming has traditionally presented programming issues
for broadcasters.  In the 1970s and 1980s, there were multiple cases where
broadcasters actually lost licenses because there was illegal activity
taking place in brokered programming.  In these cases, the programming
contained illegal content and the licensee had no way to monitor the content
of the programs as the licensee had no one on staff who spoke the language
in which the programming was produced.  The FCC basically said that the
licensee had the responsibility to be able to monitor all programming
broadcast on its station - so they had abdicated their responsibility to
keep the station in compliance with FCC rules by not knowing what was being
said in the brokered programming.

And it is not just foreign language programming that can present issues.  In
some of those older cases, there were problems where one would least expect
it.  In one case, a preacher was, in his sermons, citing Bible verses to
convey information about illegal "numbers" games that were taking place in
the station's community.  As recently as last week, noncommercial
broadcasters were fined by the FCC for improper underwriting announcements
that were broadcast in programming provided by third-party programmers 

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