Word: fcc
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Officials at the university and Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which oversees the operation of radio stations in the United States, said that neither of the 10-watt stations had received permission from the licensing authority...
...FCC is currently conducting an investigation to see what to do about the stations, which violate a 1979 law prohibiting stations with less than 100 from operating in this country, the news agency reported...
...FCC learned about the stations after reporters fromThe Collegian, UMass's student newspaper, contacted them about one of the stations, which began broadcasting two months ago. The other station has been operating for the last ten years...
...recent years the proliferation of "raunch radio" personalities like Howard Stern, the acid-tongued New York disk jockey, has raised a public outcry over broadcast vulgarity. Last April the FCC responded by altering its definition of what constitutes indecent programming. Under the old guidelines a program was deemed indecent only if it used one or more of the "seven dirty words" made famous in a comedy routine by George Carlin. The new ruling broadened the standard to include anything that depicts sexual or excretory activity in terms that are "patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast...
...setting up a safe harbor for indecent fare late at night, the FCC satisfied few interested parties. Paul McGeady, general counsel for Morality in Media, complained that the decision will open the floodgates to post- midnight smut: "There's no reason that raunch-radio persons won't become raunch-television persons." Broadcasters and civil libertarians, meanwhile, continue to object that the commission's definition of indecency is distressingly vague. Most network and local station officials insist that their standard on what is permissible will not change because of the ruling. Still, it could open the way for more explicit radio...