In addition, the agency proposed to let a company own AM and FM radio stations and UHF TV stations in the same market.
The FCC voted 2-1 Thursday to levy the maximum $2,000 fine on KZKC-TV, a UHF station in Kansas City, for showing the movie "Private Lessons" at 8 p.m., a time at which the agency said children were likely to be watching.
He said the Navy uses only UHF channels to warn approaching aircraft.
By selling their UHF stations and World Book publishing operations before a run-up in media and publishing prices, one former associate estimates, the Fields failed to realize as much as $1 billion apiece.
The current UHF television and radio waiver evaluation would be replaced by the new rule.
But it would fall under the proposed rules because it currently produces 12 hours of programming and has 134 affiliates, mostly UHF stations.
He says God told him that Congress was going to pass legislation requiring all TV sets to have UHF antennas.
Home Shopping currently markets discount consumer products 24 hours a day on phone-in programs on cable television and UHF broadcast channels.
"UHF," a parody of trash television, is almost defiantly silly, but when it's funny it is very funny.
NBC said it had conducted the first UHF broadcast of an advanced television signal and the first cable transmission test of the signal, which it calls ACTV 1.
According to FCC data, about 30 UHF stations already have gone dark in recent years, and the trend is expected to escalate and spread to traditionally solid VHF stations.