How to Support Your Radio Station From Being Penalized And/Or Sued

You Have Five Choices

• Research this topic yourself. Locate the pertinent F.C.C. regulations. Do notes. Do sure you understand the research and then distribute the key points to your staff - in concise, easy-to-understand language. This should take only a few hours of your time - possibly a day.
• Have a staff member do the research and write up the report for everyone else at your station.
• Download all the information you need right now for just about what you'd pay for a really nice hamburger (plus fries and a soft drink).
• Don't do anything. Simply take your chances and hope that everyone at your station already knows all the rules regarding on-air phone calls. If you're a Station Owner and you lose this gamble, you'll have the pleasure of conducive some thousand dollars to the U.S. government.
• Ask your lawyer to prepare an in-depth "advisory report" on how to broadcast telephone calls without violating either state wiretapping/eavesdropping laws* or F.C.C. regulations. Nice attorneys are worth the large fees they charge. If you have a nice attorney, you mightiness choose this option.

If your radio station is regulated by the F.C.C., you must have ON-AIR PHONE CALLS: Legal vs Amerciable on hand for easy reference by you and your staff.

Quick Summary of Contents

• This, by the way, is the regulation that nailed that City station to the tune of $4,000.
• The second way your phone calls can get you in trouble with F.C.C. (The F.C.C. has done a terrible job of educating radio stations just about this. As a result, about no radio station knows this rule even as exists. But they do get penalized for violating it!)
• The 1st way your phone calls can get you in trouble with the F.C.C. (Most radio folk are aware that the F.C.C. has rules regarding this aspect. But most folk aren't sure exactly what those rules are.)
• My specific recommendations for keeping your station safe & legal.
• How State Laws affect your radio station's broadcast of phone calls
• How Do Others "Get Away With It"? - Galore radio programs appear to violate the really regulations I explain in ON-AIR PHONE CALLS: Legal vs Illegal. I explain how they do it. It is not necessary that you cognize how they "get away with it," but so galore folk ask me that I distinct to "pull back the curtain" and reveal these secrets.
• "The Bottom Line" - Three paragraphs that distill all the information I've researched for you. (I go into well much detail in explaining everything. But once I've explained it, I besides boil it all down to a single page for your futurity reference.)