FCC doesn't know when to quit

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Thursday April 01, 2004 · 5:29 PM PST

2004/04/01 · 17:29

Bush's good friend Mr. Michael Powell now says he endorses "subjecting cable and satellite to the same indecency ground rules that broadcasters face."

NAB President Says Indecency Regulation Should Include Cable, Satellite: The one area of clear consensus among the 350 broadcasters attending the National Association of Broadcasters summit on indecency in Washington Wednesday is that cable and satellite TV should share the pain.

That was the assessment of Eddie Fritts, NAB president and CEO, during a wrap-up briefing with reporters this evening. "There was great concern about cable and satellite," said Mr. Fritts, noting that the pay TV technologies are currently exempt from federal indecency regulation. "The goal for broadcasters is equal footing in this process."

Mr. Fritts said the NAB board and executive committee are also planning to consider a range of industry responses to indecency concerns, including possible adoption of some kind of programming code. "It [a decisive resolution] is not something that 's going to be resolved in 30 days or 60 days," said Mr. Fritts, however.

Among the federal regulators that urged broadcasters to consider resurrecting a code at the behind-closed-doors session was Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell. "It would be in your interest to do so," Mr. Powell told the broadcasters, according to a text of his remarks. In a hallway briefing with reporters, Mr. Powell also endorsed the concept of subjecting cable and satellite to the same indecency ground rules that broadcasters face.

Why don't we just make all of our media government-controlled and be done with it?

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