The FCC has handed down a number of license-renewal related case resolutions revolving around children's programming. Mostly, they are in regard to the 10.5 minute-per-hour advertising limit on weekends and 12 minute-per-hour advertising limit on week on weekdays. Eight stations were caught in the dragnet, including five from Liberty which are on their way to Raycom. All were granted a license renewal. In five cases, the violations were deemed minor and/or inadvertent, and on balance with generally proper station operation, were simply excused. Two received admonishments due to public file irregularities. One, however, had an empty public file, insofar as its children's programming records are concerned, resulting in a 10K fine.

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Case by case compendium here

* WLOX-TV Biloxi (Liberty, ABC 13): One children's advertising 15-second overage, make-good error, excused.

* WTOL-TV Toledo (Liberty, CBS 11): Five children's advertising overages, maximum 56 seconds, human error, excused.

* WAVE-TV Louisville (Liberty, NBC 3): Failure to publicize existence and location of Children's Television Programming Report, excused.

* WDWB-TV Detroit (Granite, WB 20): Three violations, including two with partial use of program characters in a commercial and one children's advertising one -minute, 30-second overage, excused.

* WAXN-TV Charlotte (Kannapolis NC) (Cox, independent 64): One children's advertising 75-second overage, make-good error, excused.

* WSFA-TV Montgomery (Liberty, NBC 12): One 45-second children's advertising overage, make good error, failure to note in public file, resulting in FCC admonishment.

* WWAY-TV Wilmington NC (Liberty, ABC 3): Failure to properly and timely put children's programming information in public file, resulting in FCC admonishment.

* WVAG-TV Albany GA (Valdosta GA) (P.D. Communications, UPN 44): Could not document advertising on children's programming in part because proper records were not maintained in the station's public file, resulting in 10K fine.