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...media icon Mel Karmazin, Sirius broadcasts 65 channels of commercial-free music, sliced and diced in formats from Broadway-show tunes to '80s hair bands, along with channels dedicated to sports, news, weather and niche shows like Derek and Romaine's, which would be fined into extinction if the FCC had its way. This being satellite radio, whose subscribers pay a $12.95 monthly fee, the content cops have no say in what's beamed down from Sirius' three satellites. And Sirius is taking full advantage of its outlier status to serve up fare you would never hear over the AM/FM...
Kinchla said that she had a staff member at the telecommunications office register a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC...
...Although FCC rules prohibit telephone solicitation before 8 a.m. and after 9 p.m., the only way to legally prevent solicitation and potential phone scams during all other hours is registration with Massachusetts’ “Do Not Call” law. The “Do Not Call” law guarantees that residents can register their phone numbers to prohibit the receipt of telephone solicitation by phone (866) 231-2255 or online at www.madonotcall.govconnect.com/welcome.asp.
When you talk to people about what bothers them in pop culture--if anything does--they tend not to talk about discrete, FCC-finable offenses. They talk about video games, ads, innuendos, magazine covers--things that the FCC doesn't police or that are so nebulous and environmental as to be unpoliceable in a free society. They don't want absolute rules. They want boundaries: they just want to know where the cultural deep end and the kiddie pool...
...indecency then, context is king. The PTC and the FCC say it was not indecent to air Saving Private Ryan on network TV--even though children might be watching during prime time--because of the context: soldiers swear in war. But of course, mobsters swear too. So could The Sopranos, just as critically praised, air on NBC? Can only good guys drop the F bomb? Indecency activists often cite the dictum of Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart on obscenity: "I know it when I see it." But who knows indecency, and what do they...