WAIC/Springfield, MA To Pay $1,200 Fine Over Public File Violations, Late License Renewal

Fine

The FCC has adopted a consent decree with AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE requiring the school to pay $1,200 to settle violations of the public file rule at student station WAIC/SPRINGFIELD, MA.

The station's license renewal application said that it had failed to timely prepare and place in the Station’s public file any of the 32 required issues and programs lists; the application itself was also filed almost four months late, and three days before the license expired.  The initially-proposed fine of $13,500 was reduced in the agreement due to the Commission's policy of leniency towards student-run noncommercial educational station first-time offenders.

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