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Source: www.moreover.com --- 19 days ago
U.S. broadcast networks are urging the Supreme Court to throw out the Federal Communications Commission?s Indecency rules, or at least keep intact an appellate court decision that overturned FCC sanctioning of Fox TV stations for airing ?fleeting ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 18 days ago
In a brief filed to the high court, Fox said the FCC departed from established legal precedent when it issued its enforcement order. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 11 days ago
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WashingtonTime Warner Inc. is concerned that banning fleeting Indecency on broadcast TV could be used to justify regulating cable television programming for Indecency for the first time. ... Source: www.marketwatch.com --- 18 days ago
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Fox Television Stations Inc. told the Supreme Court Friday that the Federal Communications Commission abandoned careful enforcement of Indecency standards when it slapped the company with a fine for celebrities who cursed during two separate airings of the "Billboard Music Awards." ... Source: blogs.wsj.com --- 30 days ago
It’s been four-and-a-half years since 90 million Americans watched Justin Timberlake expose Janet Jackson’s breast at the Super Bowl halftime show — a televised transgression for which the FCC fined CBS $550,000. Janet Jackson covers her breast after her outfit came undone during the half time performance with Justin Timberlake at Super Bowl XXXVIII in [...] ... Source: arstechnica.com --- 10 days ago
Two very different former FCC Chiefs agree on one thing: the Commission's "Victorian crusade" against broadcasters must end. Read More... ... Source: arstechnica.com --- 48 days ago
Two key media groups take aim at the FCC's bass-ackwards system for counting Indecency complaints. Read More... ...
Source: www.buffalonews.com --- 29 days ago
PHILADELPHIA -- CBS Corp. said it hoped Monday's court decision to throw out a fine for Janet Jackson's “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show “will lead the FCC to return to the policy of restrained Indecency enforcement it followed for decades.” ... Source: www.current.org --- 19 days ago
In a brief filed today with the Supreme Court, ABC, CBS and NBC claimed that the legal underpinnings of the landmark Pacifica decision and other content regulation precedents are no longer valid, Broadcasting & Cable reports . The filing is in support of Fox in an Indecency case that the Court will hear later this year -- the FCC asked the justices to reconsider a lower court's finding that the commission was wrong to fine Fox for airing curse words uttered during a live awards show broadcast. The FCC wants the justices to consider only narrow legal questions specific to the case, but the networks in their filing urged the Court to broadly examine the legality of broadcast Indecency enforcement as a whole. "The antiquated notion of spectrum scarcity can no longer serve as a basis for according only 'relaxed scrutiny' to content restrictions in the broadcast media," they argued, according to B&C . "Nor can the outmoded premises of Pacifica -- that over-the-air broadcasting is ‘uniquely pervasive’ or ‘uniquely accessible to children.’" (See timeline of notable Indecency regulation developments here .) ... Source: legaltimes.typepad.com --- 30 days ago
As the Morning Wrap noted, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled today that CBS should not have been fined for the "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl. For more details from The Legal Intelligencer, click... ... Source: www.topix.com --- 48 days ago
They hail him as a hero. He is Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and, for proponents of family values, the man who can shield America's living rooms from the coarse and ... ... Source: www.topix.com --- 22 days ago
Broadcasters won a significant victory Monday in their fight to derail the Federal Communications Commission's crackdown on raunchy broadcasts, when a federal appeals court ruled the agency improperly fined CBS ... ... Source: www.thelegality.com --- 36 days ago
Written by: Eric Wasik Researched by: Tom Borton Edited by: Alexander JL Theoharis, Lauren E. Trent George W. Bush. Dick Cheney. Nichole Richie. Cher. Bono. What do these strange bedfellows share in common? All five might need their mouths washed with soap after a recent Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision regarding the Federal Communications Commission’s “fleeting [...] ... Source: ehad-aham.newsvine.com --- 45 days ago
Consumer complaints to the Federal Communications Commission about broadcaster Indecency or obscenity dropped substantially in the third quarter of 2007, the agency reported yesterday. ... Source: www.lasarletter.net --- 39 days ago
Consumer complaints to the Federal Communications Commission about broadcaster Indecency or obscenity dropped substantially in the third quarter of 2007, the agency reported yesterday . They declined from 4,368 in the second quarter to a mere 368 in July through September of last year. That's a dive of exactly 4,000 registered grumblings. There were just 100 in July, 119 in August, and 149 in September. But the drop probably means nothing, because FCC Indecency complaints are famously volatile. They sometimes accelerate from a handful of gripes to almost half a million outraged filings in a single month, and they've maintained this unpredictable, roller coaster pattern ever since the agency started posting its numbers. I've kept track of FCC Indecency/obscenity/profanity complaint rates since 2002, which was the first year that the Commission began publishing its quarterly stats on how many consumers contacted the agency to report the broadcast of what they perceived as indecent words or images. Back then, the Commission reported comparatively few protests. The most the FCC received in 2002 came in March, where 161 complaints were logged. read more ... Source: www.larrykane.com --- 16 days ago
First the FCC. The Federal Appeals court in Philadelphia has thrown out the most ridiculous attempt at Big Brother government from the FCC - the fine against CBS for the nano second in the 2004 Super Bowl when Janet Jackson bared herself, or rather was “bared” by Justin Timberlake. First off - it was a [...] ... Source: www.broadcastlawblog.com --- 27 days ago
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals today released a decision overturning the FCC's fine of CBS Television for its Super Bowl broadcast of the notorious Janet Jackson halftime show and her "clothing malfunction." The decision is available here . Our partner Bob Corn-Revere argued the case. Full details on the decision are contained in our firm's Advisory Bulletin which was just issued . But essentially, the court found that the FCC had not sufficiently justified its departure from prior precedent that any "fleeting" content would not result in a fine by the FCC, nor had the FCC justified its decision finding that the conduct of CBS was "willful," as the Court questioned whether the independent actions of Janet Jackson and Justin TImberlake could be attributed to CBS. The decision was remanded to the FCC with the instruction that it could not fine CBS but that any further decision could be only declaratory in nature - setting policy for the future. If the FCC decides to wade back into the Indecency area, it will have to deal with two decisions finding its rulings arbitrary and capricious. We wrote about the Second Circuit decision throwing out the " fleeting expletive " fines arsing from slips of the tongue during the Golden Globes , the Billboard Music Awards and other programs (see our last post on that case here ). Of course, the FCC has asked the Supreme Court for review of the Golden Globes case, so we'll all have to stay ... Find more results for FCC Indecency on RSSMicro.com |
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WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show may have been exciting, but it didn't violate TV Indecency standards, a federal appeals court ruled today in a blow to the Federal Communications Commission's hope to step up Indecency standards. ...
America: We're Cleaning Up our Act! Or maybe just dangling shiny trinkets in front of the complainers? The FCC reports (pdf link) that Indecency complaints against broadcasters to the agency have fallen dramatically , from 4,368 in the second quarter of 2007 to only 368 in the third quarter, the most recent time period for which data is available. The agency recorded an even more ridiculous drop from the first quarter of 2007, when 149,457 complaints were received. Wait, nearly 150,000 to 4,000 to 300? What gives? It turns out this kind of roller coaster of complaints isn't new at the FCC: as Mother Jones has covered before , the numbers jump around a lot. In 2003, complaints went from 351 in the second quarter to over 272,000 in the third. Ars Technica posits that activists like the Parents Television Council (whose campaigns may be responsible for a majority of complaints) have been distracted by Grand Theft Auto, but I'd say they're probably out there forwarding e-mails about Barack Obama being a secret gay Muslim terrorist. Isn't Q3 2007 about when that got started? I've included a handy graph (above right) to help us see if there's any connection. ...