FCC Warns Stations Violating Children's Programming Commercial Limits

The FCC Media Bureau Video Division issued several admonitions Tuesday to KMCB, Coos Bay, Oregon; KMTR, Eugene, Oregon; and KOGG, Wailuku, Hawaii, for failing to comply with the commercial limits in children’s programming, in dockets 15-246, 15-248 and 15-250. The stations showed URLs during advertisements for several seconds or less, violating the commercial limits, the bureau said. The Children’s Television Act of 1990 limited the amount of commercial matter that commercial TV stations can air during children's programming to 10.5 minutes per hour on weekends and 12 minutes per hour on weekdays, the bureau said. The commission also restricts showing web addresses during children’s programming, it said.