NCTA plan: allow limited regulation: basic Cable nets could wind up policed by FCC.(National Cable and Telecommunications Association)(Federal Communications Commission)
Multichannel News, November, 2005 by Hearn, Ted
Washignton -- The cable industry would agree to regulation of its most-popular programming tiers for indecency--on condition that any federal legislation governing its content for profanity or sexual behavior wouldn't take effect until after the courts had ruled on the law's constitutionality.
The proposal, endorsed by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association leadership, could lead to the Federal Communications Commission's policing the content of basic and expanded-basic channels for the first time in cable's half-century of history. Violators currently can be fined only $32,500 per offense. But in February, the House passed a bill that would raise the maximum to $500,000. Currently, the only media whose content is monitored for indecency...
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