Word: fcc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ELECTION SEASON, SO DON IMUS IS GRILLING BIG-NAME POLITICIANS AND pundits on his national morning radio program, which is simulcast on MSNBC. And last week his longtime rival in the radio wars, Howard Stern, announced he was ditching the FCC for the freedom of satellite radio. Imus spoke last week with TIME's Sean Gregory about Stern, the election and two generations of Bushes...
...likely to be launched in the next year, but Hastings has been brainstorming the idea with Michael Ramsay, a Netflix board member and the CEO of TiVo, whose time-shifting digital video recorder has spooked Hollywood. Recently Ramsay, who has been struggling to expand the TiVo business, won FCC approval for TiVoToGo, a service that would allow people to share TV shows, movies and other TiVo recordings with as many as nine other TiVo boxes and computers via the Internet. (Not surprisingly, the MPAA bitterly opposed TiVoToGo.) "Downloading any movie ever made--that's possible on a TiVo box today...
...Wednesday, the FCC fined CBS News $550,000 for the Super Bowl debacle last February, in which Janet Jackson got unexpectedly intimate with upwards of 90 million people at the hands of one Justin Timberlake. The two were performing during half-time and Timberlake got gropy mid-routine, ripping at Jackson’s jacket—and revealing the singer’s right breast. (Timberlake deemed the mistake a “wardrobe malfunction,” but while Dartboard agrees that Timberlake is a complete dolt, his incoherence doesn’t warrant such a fine.) Despite...
Clearly, the fine isn’t going to break the network’s bank. The problem is, rather, that this penalty is the largest ever issued by the FCC against a television broadcaster. This seems to suggest that Powell and his minions found this display to be the most inappropriate in television history. And if that’s the case, the FCC is ridiculously out-of-touch with primetime programming—not too farfetched an idea considering Powell’s history of misguided policies (read: his crusade for media deregulation...
...FCC is going to work towards making primetime programming more appropriate, it should do so uniformly—without singling out one network for something considerably less offensive than what most networks broadcast routinely. Pervasive sexual innuendo on sitcoms, the increasingly tasteless themes of reality television shows, and the lack of quality programming for kids is far more detrimental to the impressionable minds of tomorrow. But, given Powell’s record, Dartboard won’t hold her breath...