2 Public File Penalties Proposed for Gendreau

The FCC Media Bureau proposed an $11,000 penalty for Gendreau Broadcasting’s station KCLN(AM) Clinton, Iowa, over online public file violations, an incorrect certification in a renewal application, and operating its station at incorrect power levels without agency permission, said an order and notice of apparent liability in Wednesday’s Daily Digest. Gendreau didn’t upload required issues/programs lists and other materials, and certified it had uploaded them on its renewal application, the filing said. The agency also found similar public file violations occurred at Gendreau’s KMCN(FM) in Clinton, and issued a separate $8,000 NAL on that matter. Both NALs stemmed from informal objections filed against the stations’ renewals by the same person, apparently an employee at another radio station in Clinton.