The FCC Enforcement Bureau looks to be on a “fishing...
The FCC Enforcement Bureau looks to be on a “fishing expedition” in asking all of Fox’s 200-plus affiliates for information on a January episode of American Dad that drew indecency complaints, a lawyer with broadcast clients said late Thursday. “Apparently…
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determined to make the already murky area of indecency regulation even murkier” in sending letters of inquiry (LOI) to so many, the bureau set “many hooks in the water” and “the FCC is obviously hoping to land a couple of big ones,” Howard Weiss wrote on the blog of Fletcher Heald. The LOIs didn’t document that the agency got any complaints about any station other than KDFW Dallas, cited in an earlier letter to Fox Television Stations, he said. Industry executives have expressed concern about that, saying it’s not usual bureau practice (CD July 18 p9).