CBS Pays $300,000 To Settle KUTV License Challenge

CBS PAYS $300,000 TO SETTLE KUTV LICENSE CHALLENGE
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
CBS has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a license challenge to KUTV(TV) Salt Lake City over its airing of "Without a Trace." CBS admitted it had “inadvertently” failed to comply with an earlier consent decree wiping out a raft of indecency complaints including against the same episode of the CBS drama. According to that decree, CBS was supposed to launch an investigation and suspend employees if the FCC concluded a broadcast had been indecent, which it did to the tune of a record $3.6 million fine against CBS’ owned stations for the repeat airing of "Without a Trace." The company has now promised to take steps going forward to insure compliance with the original consent decree. The consent decree entered into with the FCC does not wipe away that proposed $3.6 million fine. It applies to KUTV and to a license challenge filed by the Parents Television Council, as well as to any other CBS stations that similarly did not take remedial actions.
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