The original FCC fine against FoxFur was $20,000, and it was due to violating the FCC’s ownership limit in Syracuse. FoxFur did a deal, swapping some stations with Family Life Ministries in upstate New York. However, when FoxFur implemented an immediate time brokerage agreement on one of the stations, it resulted in FoxFur having an interest in eight stations, which is one over the limit in that market.
The $4,000 reduction from the original NAL was due to FoxFur’s timely response to the NAL, FoxFur’s history of compliance continuing to pursue the matter “would be time-consuming and require substantial expenditure of public and private resources.” Broadcast attorney John Garziglia originally wrote about this issue back on June 16 here at Radioink.com
