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If you miss doing a correct legal ID for ten straight weeks — it may lead to a big fine.
Like $5,000. It’s been ages since the FCC has cited a radio station specifically for violating 73.1201, the line in the rules that requires radio stations to identify with their call letters and city of license “hourly, as close to the hour as possible.”
So it was an eye-opener to see the Commission propose a $5,000 fine against Leighton Enterprises’ KBOT, Pelican Rapids, MN(104.1) for failing to run a legal ID for 10 weeks. KBOT told the FCC it was an “inadvertent” programming error in its automation system that replaced the proper top-hour ID with a promotional announcement that included the station’s slogan (“Wild 104”) — but not the calls and city of license.
from Breakfast Blog

Three hours of live radio each day!
In Minnesota, Leighton Enterprises Inc., licensee of KBOT-FM, Pelican Rapids, said due to an inadvertent programming error, with the exception of a three-hour window of live programming each day, all of its station identification announcements were deficient from September 22 until December 7, 2004, when Leighton corrected its station identification announcement to include the required call letters and the community of license. The Commission noted that by Leighton's admission, the violations occurred 21 times per day over a 10-week period and did not terminate until December 7, 2004, after Leighton received the Enforcement Bureau's Letter of Inquiry and said that it proposed to increase base forfeiture amount of USD 1,000 to a total of USD 5,000.
from Radionewsweb.com

We can understand folks not being proud of being from 56572, but KBOT-FM is from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, not 56572. Go get 'em.