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Who ing cares?
So you are the basketball game and "accidently" say something bad and
are overheard on TV. Are you going to get fined. Or is the station going
to bill you for their fine. This ought to prove interesting.
And how bout Tiger and his mouth. Well known he loses it on the golf course
during matches.
FCC combing air tapes for dirty words
Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:32 AM ET
By Brooks Boliek
WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - In its continuing crackdown on on-air profanity, the FCC has requested numerous tapes from broadcasters that might include vulgar remarks from unruly spectators, coaches and athletes at live sporting events, industry sources said.
Tapes requested by the commission include live broadcasts of football games and NASCAR races where the participants or the crowds let loose with an expletive. While commission officials refused to talk about its requests, one broadcast company executive said the commission had asked for 30 tapes of live sports and news programs.
"It looks like they want to end live broadcast TV," said one executive, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity. "We already know that they aren't afraid to go after news."
NO SLIPS ALLOWED
While live programming always has been problematic for broadcasters, it has become even more difficult under tougher commission rules approved in 2004. The new rules found that virtually any use of certain expletives will be considered profane and indecent, even if it is a slip of the tongue. In a March decision, the FCC found that the CBS news program "The Early Show" violated its indecency rules because of a profane slip-up but did not issue a fine because the incident occurred before the new rules were ins uted.
Live sports -- amateur, college and professional -- have long been a broadcast programming staple. Broadcasters have spent enormous amounts of money and energy to come up with ways to give audiences a better feel for the action. As broadcasters vie for viewers, technical advances that include such things as on-field microphones and in-car cameras have become as important as the announcers.
"I don't know how they are going to rule, but they asked us for tapes with a specific emphasis on crowd noise," said another TV executive, who also requested anonymity. "If some bozo in the crowd calls the ref an asshole, the commission is asking for a copy of the tape."
A live, on-field event -- albeit when no athletes were on the field -- during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, when Janet Jackson's breast was accidentally bared, helped reignite Washington's interest in the indecency issue. Since then there has been a highly charged fight at the commission about just how far the commission can go in restricting broadcasts.
OPINION DIVIDED
Broadcasters last week split over whether the commission should be allowed to get one of the premier indecency cases back from the federal court in New York.
In a series of motions filed Friday in federal court in New York, Fox and its affiliate group, CBS and NBC opposed an attempt this week by the FCC to get a key indecency case back from the court.
The commission this month asked the same federal court for more time to consider affiliates' arguments that the agency erred in March when it decided variations of the words " " and " " likely are to be indecent whenever broadcast, even if the words are uttered accidentally.
A delay would let affiliates contest the decisions before the commission. The FCC contends that this is a necessary step before arguing in court. The agency said ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates backed its request.
Under federal court rulings and commission rules, material is indecent if it "in context, depicts or describes sexual or excretory activities or organs in a patently offensive manner as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium." Indecent speech can be aired safely between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Under a new law approved by Congress and signed by President Bush, broadcasters face fines of as much as $325,000 per violation, up from a previous maximum of $32,500.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Who ing cares?
The FCC can suck my . Mother ers.
What was the incident on The Early Show? And this is complete bu*****t. Hey, what the f***? Help me! The mo*********ng FC f*****g C has started censoring my f*****g takes. What a load of s***!
god damn big in brother is everywhere!!.
and of course bupsh signed this . he never vetos.
arg.
this is the crappiest congress/house EVER.
legislation for tigter FCC restrictions
internet gambling
flag burning
investigations into video games
jesus ing christ - are there no important issues facing the nation????
god damn big in brother is everywhere!!
and of course bupsh signed this . he never vetos.
arg.
this is the crappiest congress/house EVER.
legislation for tigter FCC restrictions
internet gambling
flag burning
investigations into video games
jesus ing christ - are there no important issues facing the nation????
we voted those dumb mother ers in. this novemeber goto your polling stations and vote those s out.
simple as that.
I didn't vote the ers in - in fact, I voted for someone I wasn't totally crazy about just so I wouldn't vote the assholes in. I think I should be paid reparations for my loss of freedoms.we voted those dumb mother ers in. this novemeber goto your polling stations and vote those s out.
simple as that.
In all seriousness though, censorship has gotten way out of hand in this country. Schools have taken Huckleberry Finn off the shelves, and parents are boycotting Harry Potter because God forbid the kids read a story about magic. We can say "God" and "damn" on TV, but not "Goddamn" - we can even say "son of a " on television without a problem. I'm so tired of like FCC regulations and steroids in baseball wasting time in Congress when there are real problems in the world that might be helped if the assholes on Capitol Hill would stop caring about being re-elected and use their time in office productively.
delayed live broadcasts. like they have in Saudi Arabia and such countries, so they make sure immoral things like half-naked brazilian chicks don't show up during the broadcast of soccer games.
Aren't these the same nudniks who take seemingly endless vacations, but can't get back to "work" fast enough when it comes time to vote themselves raises?
Last edited by Condemned 2 HelLA; 07-13-2006 at 02:10 PM.
Be careful!
They're watching you. . .they're always watching you. They're like Santa Claus only without the presents and the jolly laugh.
In the meantime, broadcasts showing (simulated) murder and explicit violence are perfectly OK.
It's the responsibility of the station airing it.
They're the one's who have to answer to the FCC, and they're the ones who should be running on a slight tape-delay so they can censor out the naughty words. Why would the individual get in trouble for it?
Precisely. I've killed about 100 people in a variety of ways and tortured the out of a few more while the cameras were rolling. I think I may have even shown my ass when I got tortured to death once, and that's all fine and dandy. But do you realize how frustrating it is that my only expletive (if you can call it that) is "Dammit!"
That was the same reason that my love scene with Audrey got cut. That girl has a mouth like a sailor when she gets into it. Well, there were also some time constraints. Even though I've learned to fight terrorists fast enough that I can take my time with my lady the FCC decided that four straight hours of me pounding the Secretary of Defense's daughter was "vulgar".
So tune in for the next season of 24, in which I escape a Chinese military prison and completely bomb the out of the FCC.
Jack.
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