Liberman Broadcasting, Paying $110,000,rnSettles Indecency Probe in Rare FCC Action

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A broadcaster agreement to pay $110,000, train employees and take other compliance actions tornsettle an Enforcement Bureau indecency investigation is the first FCC action on such content in severalrnyears and a rare instance of the commission's acting against non-English programming, said experts werninterviewed Friday. The night before, the bureau released a consent decree where Liberman Broadcastingrnagreed to develop an indecency manual, name a compliance officer, train staff, report future noncompliancernand file four reports over the three-year term of the settlement. Notably, said one of the indecencyrnexperts, broadcast lawyer John Crigler of Garvey Schubert, the licensee admitted it violated indecencyrnrules for the now-discontinued talk show-type program that complaints said featured scantily-clad womenrnwith almost no obscurance of sexual parts and much unfiltered cursing in Spanish.