Word: fcc
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...Federal Communications Commission may have had enough. The agency has announced it will "seek comment on whether rules might be revised to serve the educational needs of children." But the FCC is already hinting displeasure with current standards for kidvid, noting "little change in available programming directed at children's needs" and insisting that "the primary goal of children's programming should be educational and informational, with entertainment as a secondary goal...
...studio audience with his band. But now Coke and Pepsi are talking about the possibility of endorsements; on a Los Angeles radio show last month, he was asked to answer questions about everything from his brother's plans for the aerospace industry to his attitude toward the FCC. Chat hosts from Howard Stern to Larry King want him on their shows, and the calls are coming so fast he now has a private line...
Johnson said he and other department officials had been "rearranging" the radio systems and were "reapplying" for more radio channels with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC...
Victor Tagliaferro, senior engineer at the FCC's New England Field Office, could not confirm if Harvard police had recently lost a radio license. He said the department had failed to reapply for a license two years...
...daily litany of lowbrow sexual innuendo, anatomical comparisons and coarse ethnic stereotyping may endear him to a surging army of sophomoric radio listeners, but not to the Federal Communications Commission. For the second time in two months, broadcasts by schlock jock Howard Stern have drawn FCC fines. This time, however, the commission upped the stakes by fining Stern's bosses at Infinity Broadcasting a record $600,000 for the "indecent" material, though it stopped short of barring Infinity's planned purchase of three new stations. The FCC also warned that any such future violations could lead to a loss...