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iHeart Reacting to Salem Fine

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RoddyFreeman

In January, Salem Media was fined $50,000 by the FCC for carrying a recorded show on Saturdays and not announcing it as such.

I noticed The Bull and Power 96-1 play an announcement once an hour saying portions of the following program are prerecorded. I haven't noticed it on stations owned by other companies, but I just might not have heard it.

I suppose the FCC has a reason for feeling the audience should know, but I doubt virtually anyone would make a listening decision because of it. Listening decisions are made based on what the programming sounds like. If someone doesn't like voice-tracked shows, they just won't listen (if they can even tell, which is unlikely).

Am I missing something? Can anyone think of a reason the FCC feels identifying content as recorded "protects" listeners?
 
IHeart's stations here in Connecticut air that disclaimer frequently. Other chains don't appear to be quivering in fear over this issue, despite also airing voicetracked programming, so the chilling effect of the Salem fine wasn't universal.
 
RoddyFreeman said:
Can anyone think of a reason the FCC feels identifying content as recorded "protects" listeners?
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The specific case had to do with a show that had "live" in the title.

www.insideradio.com

Paid Program Said It Was ‘Live.’ It Wasn’t. Now Salem’s Paying An FCC Fine.

In a move designed to be a wakeup call for broadcasters, Salem Media Group has agreed to pay a $50,000 fine and comply with a three-year compliance plan to settle
www.insideradio.com www.insideradio.com

It was pretty blatant. Saturday Night Live gives a disclaimer before it airs a repeat.

I can't think of too many other radio shows with "live" in the title. NPR's later feeds of ATC and ME are pre-recorded, and they give no disclaimer.
 
The station that carries Jim Rome here does so on a one hour delay seven months of the year because of Arizona not being involved in Daylight Savings Time, and the station keeps the "Live from Southern California" open to the show. A number of syndicated shows here air on a delayed basis to keep the scheduling uniform, but I cannot think of any that have a "delayed" disclaimer.
 
TheBigA said:
The specific case had to do with a show that had "live" in the title.

www.insideradio.com

Paid Program Said It Was ‘Live.’ It Wasn’t. Now Salem’s Paying An FCC Fine.

In a move designed to be a wakeup call for broadcasters, Salem Media Group has agreed to pay a $50,000 fine and comply with a three-year compliance plan to settle
www.insideradio.com www.insideradio.com

It was pretty blatant. Saturday Night Live gives a disclaimer before it airs a repeat.

I can't think of too many other radio shows with "live" in the title. NPR's later feeds of ATC and ME are pre-recorded, and they give no disclaimer.
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"Live from Here," the failed successor to "A Prairie Home Companion" after Garrison Keillor's #MeToo-fueled demise, was sometimes live, sometimes recorded. Don't recall if a disclaimer was ever used.
 
CTListener said:
IHeart's stations here in Connecticut air that disclaimer frequently. Other chains don't appear to be quivering in fear over this issue, despite also airing voicetracked programming, so the chilling effect of the Salem fine wasn't universal.
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iHeart stations around Texas air that disclaimer too, frequently, and in places where it seems nonsensical.

It’s the worst kind of listener-disengaging, on-air clutter and I wish they would only air the disclaimer when it actually fits and is required by law.
 
CTListener said:
"Live from Here," the failed successor to "A Prairie Home Companion" after Garrison Keillor's #MeToo-fueled demise, was sometimes live, sometimes recorded. Don't recall if a disclaimer was ever used.
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I don't recall if Live from Here aired a disclaimer when shows weren't actually "live", because I only caught that program once or twice before my local NPR station ditched it for other programming a few years before it was finally cancelled. Other NPR shows like Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! normally have an announcement at the beginning of each episode that says "This program was taped in front of an audience of..." Throughout the pandemic the'ye been saying "an audience of no one". A few weeks ago they actually taped at an outdoor venue with a live audience, so the announcement said "an audience of real, live people!".

If PHC was airing a rebroadcast, they'd play the first bars of the opening song and Keillor's voice would be heard explaining it was a rebroadcast, and he'd give deets about when it was originally broadcast, and from where.
 
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HOT 107.9 does it too. Heard it one Sunday night during what was supposed to be a live nightclub broadcast mixshow.
 
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