Fox Asks Court to Throw Out FCC Married Fine

Fox pulled out all the stops in asking the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to throw out the Federal Communications Commission's proposed indecency fine against Married by America, including arguing that the FCC's indecency-enforcement authority is confined by law to words, not images. Fox ticked off one-dozen or so reasons why the FCC was off base in fining it for the show. Fox included that the FCC failed to allege that Fox broadcast the show knowing it was indecent. In fact, Fox said, it wasn't indecent -- another reason it offers for dismissing the case. But Fox also argued that the FCC's indecency-enforcement power under statue applies only to indecent "language" since that is what the statute says. The relevant statute, the company added, prohibits broadcasters from using the airwaves to “utter ... indecent ... language, not to transmit indecent pictures."
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