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These are tough times out there in the vast radio wasteland, what with the FCC threatening Serious and Longterm consequences for on-air personalities who take their rules of propriety in vain. For those of you scoring at home, here's a rogue?s gallery of radio personalities recently dropped for on-air obscenity: Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge and Sandra Tsing...
Clear Channel isn’t to blame for the kerfuffle surrounding Howard Stern (Staff Ed, “Indecency on the Airwaves,” March 8). As Congress seeks to increase indecency penalties by a factor of 10 or more and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revs up to enforce indecency standards more stringently, radio station owners can hardly be blamed for taking action to avoid fines. In fact, independent radio stations are even more vulnerable to government pressure than huge conglomerates, as they are less able to afford FCC fines. The problem here is government overregulation...
Long before Jackson’s breast initiated a new era of FCC involvement in broadcasting, Clear Channel was using its tremendous power to control what Americans hear. When the Dixie Chicks criticized the war in Iraq, for example, Clear Channel refused to play their music. The company’s executives also chose to silence Charles Goyette, a decorated veteran and former Reaganite who got his start in politics by running Barry Goldwater’s student operation during “Mr. Conservative’s” 1964 presidential bid. Until recently, Goyette was a drive-time...
That means when Clear Channel refuses to run a Democratic Party ad, they can prevent as much as half of a major city from ever hearing it. To make matters worse, the FCC under Chairman Michael Powell, who used to help corporations evade anti-trust laws for a living, has repeatedly attempted to relax the already weak regulations that govern media conglomerates. This would be disturbing even if Clear Channel weren’t so politically assertive...
...FCC should focus more of its attention on the real indecency on America’s airwaves. Howard Stern may be crude, but Clear Channel’s reckless behavior, and the steady deregulation that let it become the loudest voice in American radio, is obscene...