The fines aren't the result of any actual discrimination found by the FCC. They are for "failing to comply with the recruitment and self-assessment requirements" of the Commission's EEO policy. In the case of WGH-AM/FM, WVBW, WVHT and WVSP in the Norfolk market, MHR License LLC owes $8,000. The FCC determined that the operator filled 14 full-time vacancies during the previous license period, but "failed to properly recruit widely for five of them." It particularly singles out two instances where the licensee relied solely on Internet websites. Read the Norfolk Notice of Apparent Liability here. In the case of Clear Channel in Greenville-Spartanburg, SC, the FCC's Media Bureau finds that at the cluster including stations such as WSSL and WESC, Clear Channel "failed to recruit widely" for 8 of 13 fulltime vacancies. It says the operator was "instead relying solely on Internet websites and word-of-mouth referrals." As far as the FCC is concerned, that doesn't cast the net far enough. Read the $14,000 fine for Clear Channel here. Virginia and South Carolina are currently in license renewal cycles, and it appears likely that these EEO fines are just the first of more to come from the Commission. The licensees of all the stations that were fined did get good news: their licenses were renewed. However, the FCC also laid "reporting conditions" on them.