Brendan Holland at the Broadcast Law Blog reports that on Wed., March 7, the Federal Communications Commission issued fines totaling $52,000 against four Class A television stations for filing their FCC Form 398 Children’s Television Programming Reports late. "The stations, each of which had missed at least a couple of years’ worth of Children’s Reports, were also fined for failing to timely place the reports in their public inspection files.... The Commission had previously notified the licensees that their stations were missing Form 398 Reports and offered the “opportunity” for the station to avoid the issue by simply voluntarily reverting to a secondary LPTV (low-power) station. While this would have potentially avoided the issue of the missing Children’s Television Reports, it would have left the stations as secondary facilities and without the primary status protection afforded to Class A television stations and full-power TV stations."