Networks Prepare To Challenge Remand

NETWORKS PREPARE TO CHALLENGE REMAND
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The FCC has asked a New York court to let it take another crack at four indecency findings it levied against "fleeting profanities," issued as part of its omnibus March indecency orders. The affiliates and the networks together challenged those four findings in court. ABC alone among the networks has rejoined the National Association of Broadcasters, which the vast majority of affiliates also belong to. While the ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliate groups support the FCC move, saying they want the chance to defend their broadcasts, the networks want the court case to proceed without delay, arguing the FCC has had ample time to mull the issue in the two years since ruling, in the case of a Bono adjectival f-word on NBC's Golden Globes, that fleeting profanities could be indecent.
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