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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedScrambling rules on hold: court issues restraining order, allowing Playboy and Spice to challenge provisions.(Brief Article)
Broadcasting & Cable, March, 1996 by McConnell, Chris
Court issues restraining order, allowing Playboy and Spice to challenge provisions
Cable operators last week won temporary relief from the Telecommunications Act's adult-channel scrambling provisions days before the new rules were to take effect.
A U.S. District Court in Delaware placed a temporary restraining order on the new scrambling rules. The rules, adopted by the FCC earlier in the week, require cable operators to scramble the audio and video of "sexually explicit" programing channels so that nonsubscribers cannot receive them. Failing that, the operators would be barred from delivering the adult channels between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.
The commission adopted the 6 a.m.-10 p.m. ban as an interim measure while it sought comment on a...
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