A judge turned down requests Thursday to...

A judge turned down requests Thursday to trim a $300,000 defamation award against Channel 39 and to obtain a new trial involving the controversy over former North County Supervisor Paul Eckert’s association with two women.

The ruling by Superior Court Judge Alpha Montgomery means the jury’s verdict stands against the television station for airing a 1983 broadcast that identified Naomi O’Hara as a prostitute who was accompanying Eckert in a restaurant.

On Oct. 31, the jury gave the $300,000 award to O’Hara, 50, of San Diego.

Another woman later charged with prostitution offenses was also with Eckert that night, along with O’Hara, but the names were transposed on the air.

“We’re going to appeal,” the station’s attorney, Steve Davis, said Thursday.

O’Hara will not see any money in the award until the appeal process has finished, said both attorneys in the case.

The station alleged that the judge made instructional errors during the trial and contended that the award was excessive.

Eckert, of Vista, who was very well-known as a religious, conservative Republican on the Board of Supervisors, lost the next election in 1986.