KidsClick Fine

[sinklair]

Sinclair is the absolutely worst run company.

Even new employees know that you have to be very careful during kids programming not to sell advertising targeting children — something that would get you in big trouble with the FCC.

So Sinclair set up its own children’s programming arm called “Kids Click”... which ran on 25-66-46 before it folded because the former GM/egomaniac and the ASSistant GM/Promotions Director made the brilliant programming decision to air it at 5am — because you know kids are setting alarm clocks to wake up at 5am to watch cartoons.

Now our corporate overlords at the Sinclair Death Star are fighting off yet another FCC complaint after we and other stations aired commercials in violations of children’s programming restrictions.

https://www.rbr.com/program-length-tv-s ... literally/

How stupid can they be??? It’s amazing the depths that Sinclair will go to to make a quick buck. They never learn that they will always get caught. Now we will face millions of dollars of fines.

[rugratsonline]

...Sinclair set up its own children’s programming arm called “Kids Click”... which ran on 25-66-46 before it folded because the former GM/egomaniac and the ASSistant GM/Promotions Director made the brilliant programming decision to air it at 5am — because you know kids are setting alarm clocks to wake up at 5am to watch cartoons.

Was KidsClick supposed to contain E/I programming? If so, airing it before 7AM would be a violation of E/I programming rules.

[sinklair]

Rugrats: no it wasn’t classified as E/I programming. It was just cartoons aimed at kids which still has advertising restrictions that Sinclair violated.

[MasterB]

That is only Bal that is getting fined $20K even know it's a lame rule when I was a kid I saw ad's for Transformers while watching Transformers along with G.I. Joe, My Little Pony etc. I could tell the difference between the cartoon and selling a toy Sinclair should fight it and take it to the courts and all the way to the Supreme Court since it is a dumb rule and outdated as I said before. KidsClick was aired at 5AM to 7AM then 8AM to 9AM on CW7 6 days a week Sunday morning was the only time it ran in pattern. I did watch the Final hour when it first came out in 2017 as CW7 aired it at 12PM to 1PM for a the first couple of months if it wasn't a repeat Pink Panther & Pals & Pacman cartoon that I watched from time to time on Disney XD.