Re: Oldies, contest?

["C. Jenest" <chomerj@yahoo.com>]

CC was fined $80,000 in April 2000 in Florida for being
deceptive with their contests. In Florida they MUST follow
rules such as:

• If stations broadcast an interview with a winner, they
“must disclose the city/state where winner resides,” he
says. 

• Stations cannot edit “the voice of an out-of-state winner
with the voice of a local radio personality to make it
sound as if the winner was local,” he says.

I don't think KISS 108 is doing that here with their
current Super Bowl contest.

Read more at
http://enquirer.com/editions/2000/05/09/loc_florida_reins_in.html

Chuck


--- Dan Billings <dib9@gwi.net> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>
> To: <boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 5:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Oldies, contest?
> 
> 
> > Didn't CC get slapped with a fine & a court case in
> Florida over their
> > nationwide contests?  Fairly recently...like within the
> past six or seven
> > months IIRC.
> 
> I'm not sure, but there would be nothing wrong with a
> national contest if
> the station(s) broadcasts an announcement making it clear
> what is going on.
> 
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
> 


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