Blogs : HEITKAMP AIRS BLUNT CALL: CLEAR CHANNEL FINED $12,000
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Joel Heitkamp, self proclaimed guardian of the public trust turns out to have taken a recorded private conversation and aired it publicly without permission. What is not stated in the FCC announcement is the fact that Heitkamp edited the phone message from Sandy Blunt and played it out of context and months after the call was made.
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The FCC has slapped Clear Channel with a $12,000 Notice of Apparent Liability for airing a phone conversation without permission on formerly owned News/Talk KFGO-AM/Fargo, ND. The Commission received a complaint in January, 2007, from Sandy Blunt alleging that KFGO broadcast a telephone call from him without his permission.
According to the complaint, sometime between January and March, 2006, Blunt left a voicemail message on the private cell phone of one of the station's air personalities, Joel Heitkamp, who hosts a radio program called "News and Views." Blunt alleges that on several occasions in December, 2006, the station broadcast his voicemail message without his permission.
http://news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/$rol.exe/headline_id=b11013
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Keep your eyes peeled as this will be ignored and buried by the North Dakota media. The Bismarck Tribune will not print or bury the item in the back of the paper, the Fargo Forum will completely ignore it, and Prairie Public Radio will be silent.
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