Center For Creative Voices Opposes FCC Revisiting Profanity Findings

CENTER FOR CREATIVE VOICES OPPOSES FCC REVISITING PROFANITY FINDINGS
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Center For Creative Voices (CCV) is advising a federal appeals court that the center opposes the FCC taking another look at disputed profanity calls, including one against Steven Bochco's NYPD Blue. The Center, whose board of advisors includes Steven Bochco and Warren Beatty, had initially said it would not oppose a move by the FCC to give stations the opportunity to weigh in on four profanity findings the commission made as part of a package of indecency/profanity findings released March 15. Broadcasters have challenged those four in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which has delayed the start of the case while it considers the FCC request. CCV had not opposed the motion, but said it was swayed by a supplemental motion filed by CBS and Fox, who oppose the FCC move. In that motion, the networks pointed out that the FCC had sought an expedited court hearing of CBS' challenge to the Janet Jackson fine, while at the same time pushing for a review of its profanity decisions, which would delay the broadcaster challenge to those by at least a couple of months. CCV, in a filing Thursday with the court, said that whatever value there had been to the FCC's request to review its decisions--which included possibly changing some and, at the least, giving stations a chance to defend themselves--"they are now being used as a part of a blatantly transparent tactical scheme to delay this case while expediting another proceeding in the Third Circuit [the Janet Jackson challenge]. "They were playing four corners in the second circuit," said Center President Jonathan Rintels, "and run and shoot in the third circuit, and that just didn't work for us."
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