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<P><STRONG><SPAN class=962505604-11022009>While the article is talking about the
multiple channels available with HD-Radio, certain caveats are
universal.</SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG><SPAN class=962505604-11022009>-Rych</SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG><A
href="http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/archives/digital-radio-caution-on-multicast-streams-remember-its-still-overtheair-broadcasting.html">http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/archives/digital-radio-caution-on-multicast-streams-remember-its-still-overtheair-broadcasting.html</A></STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>Foreign language programming </STRONG>has traditionally presented
programming issues for broadcasters. In the 1970s and 1980s,
there were multiple cases where broadcasters actually lost licenses because
there was illegal activity taking place in <STRONG>brokered
programming</STRONG>. In these cases, the programming contained
illegal content and the licensee had no way to monitor the content of the
programs as the licensee had no one on staff who spoke the language in which
the programming was produced. The FCC basically said that the
licensee had the responsibility to be able to monitor all programming broadcast
on its station - so they had abdicated their responsibility to keep the station
in compliance with FCC rules by not knowing what was being said in the brokered
programming.</P><A name=more></A>
<P>And it is not just foreign language programming that can present
issues. In some of those older cases, there were problems where one would
least expect it. In one case, a preacher was, in his sermons, citing Bible
verses to convey information about illegal "numbers" games that were taking
place in the station's community. As recently as last week,
<STRONG>noncommercial broadcasters </STRONG>were fined by the FCC for improper
underwriting announcements that were broadcast in programming provided
by third-party programmers </P></DIV></BODY></HTML>