The FCC has fined FoxFur Communications LLC $20K for 'willfully and reportedly' violating the mulitple ownership rule by implemtning a time broakerage agreement with Family Life Ministries.
According to the commission, the company entered into an Exchange Agreement with Family, pursuant to which FoxFur would assign WCIS-FM, W252AC, and WCIO(FM) to Family in exchange for Family’s station WNDR-FM (WCIS-FM, W252AC, WCIO(FM), and WNDR-FM.
On the same date, FoxFur and Family also executed cross Time Brokerage Agreements (TBA), whereby Family would broker 100 percent of the programming for WCIS-FM and WCIO(FM), and FoxFur LLC would broker 100 percent of the programming for WNDRFM.
On April 8, 2016, FoxFur and Family filed the subject applications seeking Commission consent to
assign the licenses for WCIS-FM and W252AC from FoxFur LLC to Family; WCIO(FM) from WOLF to Family; and WNDR-FM from Family to FoxFur LLC.
All this trading and maneuring gave Foxfur and principle owner Crai Fox illegal control of eight licenses in the Syracuse market, where ownership limits are seven stations due to amount of signals in the market.
Fox requested a waiver request while the FCC acted on the assignment application, but the agency claims it did not wait to give the FCC time to grant the waiver.
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