The F.C.C. cleans up the airways. (Federal Communications Commission)

Nation, The, December, 1987 by Corn, Robert L.

The F.C.C. Cleans Up the Airways

A radio station in Indianapolis is being threatened with the death penalty. Decency in Broadcasting, an association of "parents, businessmen, teachers, pastors and concerned citizens,' has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission asking it to revoke the license of WFBQ-FM. Among the station's purported transgressions, it played the song "Keep It in Your Pants, Jim Bakker.'

The group has mounted an all-out campaign against the station's morning team of Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold, whose "Bob and Tom Show' represents shock radio Indiana-style. Newspaper advertisements have appeared in local newspapers urging listeners to file complaints, and there have been town meetings to whip up support. These...

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