Decency Uproar Could Upset Shaky Radio Recovery

Reuters News ^ | April 9, 2004

[NCjim]

The U.S. radio industry's long-awaited recovery remains on track for 2004, but the specter of rising fines for on-air indecency could threaten the already fragile rebound.

If programs get boring and listeners turn off, advertisers might pull the plug on an industry hoping for 6 percent ad sales growth this year compared with a meager 1 percent in 2003, industry analysts said.

[NCjim]

The implication is that conforming to the decency limits makes radio boring. In my opinion, if radio's recovery is dependent on material that does not meet the decency limits, then radio does not deserve to recover.

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[Dan from Michigan]

I thought conservatives were for less government.

The FCC people, as are most unelected bureaucratic thugs, are indecent as far as I'm concerned.

This crap will be used to go after conservatives in the future. I guarandamntee it. There's already precidence. AOL bans gun rights websites from their servers. It's considered 'porn' by AOL.

What's stopping the FCC from pulling that stuff, especially if there's a president Hanoi John or Hitlery in the future?

Hell, the FCC wasn't even created to limit content but to make sure there isn't signal interference.

[gorush]

Amen to your sentiments. It is our present-day culture that is the problem. Attempts to repair our culture through legislation are doomed IMHO. I, personally, am not very optomistic. (My only glimmer of hope...I've been wrong before)

[gdani]

I thought conservatives were for less government

Ha! That's a good one.

If the various FCC/indecency threads are any indication, many so-called "conservatives" on FR are nothing of the sort.

They love big Govt as much as liberals -- as long as it's enforcing *their* ideology.

[Condor51]

"the FCC wasn't even created to limit content but to make sure there isn't signal interference.

True, but 'back then' we didn't have purveyors of smut and filth, aka 'Shock Jocks', bombarding us 24/7, people had morals and there was a thing called decency. As such, if Howard Stern and his clones were never heard from again we'd be better off as a society.

Also, I could be wrong as I haven't checked Arbiton, but C&W radio stations are doing just fine and they don't talk much about 'transexual-transvestite-crossdressing-lesbians'.