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CNN.com - $4,000 fine for station that cranked Castro - Apr 24, 2004
by w1ld at 11:26 pm EDT, Apr 24, 2004 |
] A radio station that crank-called Cuban President Fidel
] Castro and broadcast the recording should be fined
] $4,000, the Federal Communications Commission said.
]
] The Spanish-speaking hosts of "The Morning High Jinks"
] used snippets of an earlier prank involving Venezuelan
] President Hugo Chavez to move the call from a
] receptionist up the chain to Castro in a five-minute
] broadcast June 17.
]
] The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique
] Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and
] calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after
] Castro denounced the callers with a stream of
] vulgarities. hahaha.... |
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RE: CNN.com - $4,000 fine for station that cranked Castro - Apr 24, 2004
by IconoclasT at 7:18 am EDT, Apr 25, 2004 |
w1ld wrote:
] ]
] ] The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique
] ] Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and
] ] calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after
] ] Castro denounced the callers with a stream of
] ] vulgarities.
]
] hahaha...
But when the VOA (Voice of America) broadcast anti Castro propaganda from Key West into Cuba via Radio Marti back between 85 and 95, apparently, that was ok. Given the ongoing ineffective 40+ year trade and travel embargo w/ Cuba, one would think tormenting Castro would be promoted via almost any means. UPDATE: MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Two Miami radio hosts who duped Cuban President Fidel Castro with a prank call are soliciting pennies from their fans to pay a $4,000 fine proposed by U.S. regulators because of the on-air stunt. Talk radio host Enrique Santos said the fine made no sense, so he and co-host Joe Ferrero plan to pay it with 400,000 cents, delivered in person to the Federal Communications Commission in Washington. http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/04/28/castro.prank.reut/index.html |
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RE: CNN.com - $4,000 fine for station that cranked Castro - Apr 24, 2004
by Laughing Boy at 10:39 am EDT, Apr 29, 2004 |
IconoclasT wrote:
] w1ld wrote:
] ] ]
] ] ] The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique
] ] ] Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and
] ] ] calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after
] ] ] Castro denounced the callers with a stream of
] ] ] vulgarities.
] ]
] ] hahaha...
] But when the VOA (Voice of America) broadcast anti Castro
] propaganda from Key West into Cuba via Radio Marti back
] between 85 and 95, apparently, that was ok. Given the ongoing
] ineffective 40+ year trade and travel embargo w/ Cuba, one
] would think tormenting Castro would be promoted via almost any
] means.
]
] UPDATE: MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Two Miami radio
] hosts who duped Cuban President Fidel Castro with a prank call
] are soliciting pennies from their fans to pay a $4,000 fine
] proposed by U.S. regulators because of the on-air stunt.
]
] Talk radio host Enrique Santos said the fine made no sense, so
] he and co-host Joe Ferrero plan to pay it with 400,000 cents,
] delivered in person to the Federal Communications Commission
] in Washington.
]
] http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/04/28/castro.prank.reut/index
] .html AWESOME!!! -LB |
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$4,000 fine for station that cranked Castro
by Laughing Boy at 9:03 pm EDT, Apr 24, 2004 |
] A radio station that crank-called Cuban President Fidel
] Castro and broadcast the recording should be fined
] $4,000, the Federal Communications Commission said.
]
] The Spanish-speaking hosts of "The Morning High Jinks"
] used snippets of an earlier prank involving Venezuelan
] President Hugo Chavez to move the call from a
] receptionist up the chain to Castro in a five-minute
] broadcast June 17.
]
] The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique
] Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and
] calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after
] Castro denounced the callers with a stream of
] vulgarities.
]
] The FCC concluded Friday that the station should be fined
] for the broadcast. It rejected the station's claim that a
] rule requiring people to be notified before their voices
] are used does not apply to people in Cuba.
]
] Payment of the fine or a request for cancellation or
] reduction is required within 30 days.
]
] It was unclear whether the station had been fined for the
] prank involving Chavez five months before.
]
] There was no answer at the station's business line
] Saturday, and a call to the station's Washington attorney
] was not immediately returned. The federal government has no sense of humor. -LB |
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