Clear Channel indecency charge
p2pnet.net News:- Clear Channel, the entertainment industry’s favourite radio station, has already been fined $755,000 for broadcasting filth on its Bubba the Love Sponge. It also chopped Howard Stern, similarly loved by Hollywood.
Now it’s looking at a $247,500 fine for ‘Elliott’ show charges which were the same as those levelled at Bubba – that the show featured “graphic and explicit sexual material, and were designed to pander to, titillate and shock listeners”.
If you want the details, you’ll get some of them here.
In the meanwhile, following the removal of Bubba and Howard, Clear Channel, “outlined new standards that include immediate suspension of any on-air performer accused by the FCC of airing indecent material,” says an Associated Press story here.
“The FCC is seeking the maximum $27,500 for each of the alleged violations, or $247,500 in all, from a March 13, 2003, broadcast that included a graphic discussion about pornographic film star Ron Jeremy,” says AP. “Portions of the conversation were rebroadcast eight times in promotional spots for the show.
FCC commissioner Michael J. Capps voted against the fine because, “such a ‘cost-of-doing-business fine’ is never going to stop the media’s slide to the bottom,” AP quotes him as saying. “The time has come for the commission to send a message that it is serious about enforcing the indecency laws of our country.”
