Word: fcc
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...MANY WAYS CAN YOU TAKE IN THE TUBE? Between broadcast television, cable TV, fiber-optic cable, digital compressed cable and variously sized satellite dishes, there may soon be as many delivery systems as there are channels to choose from. Now the FCC has added yet another wrinkle to videotic variety, tentatively approving a nationwide television-transmission system much like the one used to send and receive cellular phone calls...
...radio that Stern has made the most noise -- and got into the most trouble. The FCC last month announced its intention to fine Los Angeles' KSLX-FM $105,000 for broadcasting his "indecent" material. (At the same time, three other stations were fined a total of $6,000 for airing an earlier Stern program.) A long list of Stern offenses were cited, ranging from lewd comments about Pee-wee Herman's self-abuse to gross sexual insults aimed at Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps, his chief L.A. rivals. ("First I want to just strip and rape Mark and Brian...
Stern has refused all press interviews since the FCC action, but he has ranted endlessly about it on the air. The FCC, he charges, is "targeting me because I'm the most visible guy" and is "trying to put a dead stop to my career." When he learned that FCC chairman Alfred Sikes was being treated for prostate cancer, Stern's response was, "I pray for his death...
...Children's Television Act is not asking a lot from broadcasters, but until government forces broadcasters to change their ways, they won't. It's now up to the parents, citizens and those concerned for the welfare of our children to push the FCC into action...
With this recently passed federal law, the FCC has the opportunity to force a change. Unfortunately this is unlikely to occur during the last days of the Bush administration. The act passed into existence unsigned by the president. Considering that Bush's education secretary, Lamer Alexander, is a former board member of "Channel One"--a corporate venture to broadcast television within primary and secondary schools--even this non-action seem amazing...