Limited Audit of Radio Community Service Grants Spending Shows 'Room for Improvement,' CPB Says
The CPB said it believes its Office of Inspector General’s limited audit of CPB Radio Community Service Grants expenditures in FY 2014 at 10 CPB stations showed that “while there were no across-the-board findings that would indicate a systemic problem,…
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there is room for improvement at every station.” The CPB OIG’s audit report on the 10 stations, issued in late September, said the stations generally complied with Communications Act requirements on financial reporting and other activities, but eight didn’t meet all requirements. The OIG also found limited cases in which the stations didn’t meet CPB accounting rules. The audited stations included five university-run stations and five community stations. Seven of the stations were solely radio entities, while three were joint TV-radio stations -- KCND(FM) Bismarck, North Dakota, KEDT(FM) Corpus Christi and WOUB(FM) Athens, Ohio. Nine of the 10 stations have already corrected or “initiated actions to bring their stations into compliance” with the Communications Act and CPB requirements, CPB said in a Friday news release.