Word: fcc
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...dirty, telephone sex services have become a $2.4 billion business. The Federal Communications Commission has gone after them with a regulation banning interstate telephone services that are obscene or indecent. Porn operators challenged the ruling, and last week federal courts in Los Angeles and New York City upheld the FCC's right to regulate obscenity but not the less explicit indecency. "I don't know if my client will still be able to operate now," said the attorney for one sex service...
Pornographers may not be the only merchants feeling the heat. An Assistant U.S. Attorney in the West expects the FCC regulation may be enforced against telephone services that do business with sex-talk companies...
...install their own wiring. Now that cable companies have run wires past 80% of U.S. homes, the phone companies argue that the prohibition is unnecessary. Last week the Federal Communications Commission proposed lifting the restrictions that bar local telephone companies from offering cable service in their areas. The FCC will invite public comment on its plan before drafting a final proposal, and beyond that, any loosening would require a change by Congress in its own statutory bar. Moreover, the U.S. District Court in Washington would have to modify a separate consent decree that governs the activities of the regional phone...
Cable companies, which oppose the FCC proposal, argue that phone users would be forced to subsidize the multibillion-dollar cost of installing wires able to carry both voice and video signals. The possible result: higher phone bills...
...that prohibits a firm from owning a newspaper and a TV station in the same community. The waivers allowed him to continue owning the Herald and WFXT-TV in Boston, and the New York Post and WNYW-TV in Manhattan. But the congressional measure urged by Kennedy forbade the FCC to extend the time period of the waivers that were then in effect. Kennedy said Murdoch had the "fix in" with the FCC. For its part, the Herald tweaked Kennedy...