FCC Won't Stifle Satellite Stern

[420inTN]

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/15/2004 2:20:00 PM

Howard Stern will be free to be indecent on satellite radio, the Federal Communications Commission effectively said Wednesday -- a decision that should also make cable- and satellite-TV providers breathe easier, at least for now.

The FCC declined to open a proceeding on whether satellite radio is indecent, saying that it is a subscription service and that the agency has already ruled that such services "do not call into play the issue of indecency."

The request for the proceeding was aimed directly at Stern.

Saul Levine, whose attorneys filed the petition Oct. 29 on behalf of his L.A.-based Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters, says he was at the NAB Radio Show in San Diego in October when Howard Stern announced that he was going to move to Sirius satellite radio and crush traditional broadcasters. Stern cited the indecency crackdown and some broadcasters acquiescence as one reason for the move.

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[Megahurtz]

1. KICK for Howard Stern!

:kick:

[Khephra]

2. Thank Elvis for the good news!

It may not have been legal or within the FCC's power to regulate cable/sat transmission content, but that's never stopped this bunch of Radical Righties from trying before, has it?

[durablend]

4. Give em time...

Re-installation of the Royal Monarchy hasn't taken place yet...the fundies will get around to shoving their morality onto satellite radio soon enough.

[Anakin Skywalker]

3. Go, Howard! Make the red staters pop their veins!

Free market at work. Heh heh. :)

[rockedthevoteinMA]

5. Rock on Howard !! n/t

[SKKY]

6. Now see, this will be truly interesting to me...

...I always thought Howard Stern, who I absolutely love listening to, was about the most crass individual I've ever heard. I'm anxious to know just how far, free of the FCC censorship, he'll go.