Court Strikes Down Adult TV Scrambling.
Multichannel News, January, 1999
WILMINGTON, DEL - Playboy Entertainment Group Inc won the latest round in its battle to defeat a federal law that kept adult television programming off many cable systems during daytime hours. A panel of three federal judges declared Section 505 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to be unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds, according to a Playboy representative.
The law, as interpreted by the Federal Communications Commission, required cable systems to completely scramble audio and video signals of sexually oriented and indecent programming, or to show that programming only between 10pm and 6 am. The law was aimed at protecting children from images and sounds that "bleed through" imperfectly scrambled signals Many cable operators...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
