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KCAL Fined for Minority Hiring Deficiencies: The Federal Communications Commission has renewed KCAL-TV Channel 9’s broadcast license for another five years but also fined the Walt Disney Co.-owned station $30,000 for deficiencies in minority recruitment and failure to keep accurate records in that area before 1993. KCAL has been under fire from the National Hispanic Media Coalition for failing to comply with the commission’s minority-hiring guidelines, but in granting the license and levying the fine, the FCC ultimately found “no evidence that the licensee engaged in discrimination.” Disney last month agreed to sell KCAL to Young Broadcasting in a deal valued at $368 million, responding to FCC rules that prohibit a company from owning more than one TV station in the same market. Disney became the owner of KABC-TV in Los Angeles through its acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC Inc.