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FCC fines station for harmless prank (GOP/FCC at work)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...y=1110&slug=Ca stro%20Prank Saturday, April 24, 2004 Fla. station fined $4,000 for Castro prank THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI -- A radio station that crank-called Cuban President Fidel Castro and broadcast the recording should be fined $4,000, the Federal Communications Commission said. The Spanish-speaking hosts of "The Morning High Jinks" used snippets of an earlier prank involving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to move the call from a receptionist up the chain to Castro in a five-minute broadcast June 17. The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after Castro denounced the callers with a stream of vulgarities. The FCC concluded Friday that the station should be fined for the broadcast. It rejected the station's claim that a rule requiring people to be notified before their voices are used does not apply to people in Cuba. Payment of the fine or a request for cancellation or reduction is required within 30 days. It was unclear whether the station had been fined for the prank involving Chavez five months before. There was no answer at the station's business line Saturday, and a call to the station's Washington attorney was not immediately returned. -- "republiKKKans do best what they do on their knees." (...and I'll give U a hint....it ain't prayin!) |
Bilateral Pussycats wrote: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...y=1110&slug=Ca stro%20Prank Saturday, April 24, 2004 Fla. station fined $4,000 for Castro prank THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI -- A radio station that crank-called Cuban President Fidel Castro and broadcast the recording should be fined $4,000, the Federal Communications Commission said. The Spanish-speaking hosts of "The Morning High Jinks" used snippets of an earlier prank involving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to move the call from a receptionist up the chain to Castro in a five-minute broadcast June 17. The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after Castro denounced the callers with a stream of vulgarities. The FCC concluded Friday that the station should be fined for the broadcast. It rejected the station's claim that a rule requiring people to be notified before their voices are used does not apply to people in Cuba. Payment of the fine or a request for cancellation or reduction is required within 30 days. It was unclear whether the station had been fined for the prank involving Chavez five months before. There was no answer at the station's business line Saturday, and a call to the station's Washington attorney was not immediately returned. -- "republiKKKans do best what they do on their knees." (...and I'll give U a hint....it ain't prayin!) What would that be? Getting down to take a look at a lowly life-form such as yourself? LOL! |
Radio pranks are the reason radio was invented.
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"lsmyer" wrote in
: Radio pranks are the reason radio was invented. The fact that you and your ilk believes that is exactly why radio is the vast wasteland it is today. Go back to elementary school and tell some fart jokes. |
"Bilateral Pussycats" wrote in message groups.com... http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...y=1110&slug=Ca stro%20Prank Saturday, April 24, 2004 Fla. station fined $4,000 for Castro prank THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Simply put - it is against FCC rules to broadcast a telephone call with consent from all parties involved. Nothing political at work - just a plain and simple rule violation. -- Jon Scaptura http://radio.scaptura.com |
BDK wrote:
Why would the FCC give a rat's ass about someone calling a foreign country and upsetting a dictator?? BDK What's George W. Bush's phone number? Oh sorry, if we upset him, he'll probably invade another country. -- -UA |
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Unless I am mistaken, on Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:06:00 GMT, "Jon"
wrote: "Bilateral Pussycats" wrote in message sgroups.com... http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...y=1110&slug=Ca stro%20Prank Saturday, April 24, 2004 Fla. station fined $4,000 for Castro prank THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Simply put - it is against FCC rules to broadcast a telephone call with consent from all parties involved. Nothing political at work - just a plain and simple rule violation. I think you mean "without" consent from all parties involved. Use the usual techniques if you wish to reply via email. Molon Labe! |
BDK wrote:
What's George W. Bush's phone number? Oh sorry, if we upset him, he'll probably invade another country. Any guesses on which one?? Venezuela. It's close.. |
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