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| FCC toothless in the past and remains that way - Stern contented |
HOWARD STERN COMMENTS
A farcical, toothless FCC -- Here's Stern's read on the FCC
STERN ON FCC REMOVING FINES AGAINST HIM - FEBRUARY 7, 2001
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Stern: I was just reading in the paper that the FCC did something about us, but I can't figure out what they did. I've got to go back and read that again. It looked like something good.
Robin: Are we still on the air?
Stern: But then it looked like something bad. I don't know. It looked like, I don't know, here, I'll read this to you. "FCC drops old Stern fines." Old Stern. Who you calling old, Mother F-er? 'The new FCC cleaned up some old business Monday (some old business) wiping a couple of years old Howard Stern indecency fines off the books.' That sounds good to me.
Robin: We had some more?
Stern: Who knows. 'In 1997 the FCC filed a $6,000 notice of apparent liability. The equivalent of a charge against WXRK - New York, over Stern's broadcast in October 1995 and March and June 1996.' ...
The case was never heard, although stations in New Orleans and Richmond were fined for the same broadcast. So the FCC Monday rescinded the WXRK order while adding that our decision today in no way condones the broadcasts of the material at issue.'
Robin: Nobody asked for your approval.
Stern: I don't have to give the approval, I think that's pretty .. 'At one time Stern had run up a tab of $1.7 million in notices of apparent liability which Infinity Broadcasting wiped out with a donation to the Commission in that precise amount.' You remember all that.
Robin: Yeah, but a donation.
Stern: Yeah, which was basically we paid it.
Robin: A donation.
Stern: Yeah. Semantics.
Robin: You'd never heard from us if you hadn't been fining us.
Stern: Yeah. Donation. A wink-wink deal. Yeah, who cares. What am I going to do. You gonna, they're sitting and fining me the country's doing all kinds of wacked out broadcasts and they're fining me. I love it. But, hey, this new FCC is saying 'hey wait a second, we're not'...
Maybe they're doing what George Bush is saying.
Robin: I hope.
Stern: Yeah, maybe this George Bush ain't gonna be so bad.
Robin: Let him get the church involved with government just as long as he gets off our backs.
Stern: Yeah, get off my a-- and I'll love you to death. I'll talk you up all day and night and I'll make sure you win the next election. Gore won the last one, I'll make sure you win this one. |
| FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani leaves FCC |
"The Commission appears so averse to indecency cases, and has erected so many barriers to complaints from members of the public, that indecency enforcement has become virtually non-existent. It's time for the Commission to begin taking indecency cases seriously again. It's our duty to the law, and, more importantly, our duty to our children."
May 18, 2000, Gloria Tristani
ADA comments: Tristani's comments made on May 18, 2000 echo ADA's concerns. The Commission has a long standstanding do nothing policy when it comes to holding the radio and TV industry accountable for the spread of filth over the U.S.'s airwaves. |
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has had regulatory guidelines in place for numbers of years. As Stern fans recognize, Stern talks (at times) as if he is concerned about the FCC fining him as he crosses the lines of indecency.
It is ADA's view that Stern has toned down (at least to a degree) his program . Why? Not because of concerns about the FCC but because of the over 15,000 advertisers that once advertised on his show but who discontinued once they were alerted to Stern's vulgarities and pornographic mouth. |
(1) Obscene speech is not protected by the First Amendment and cannot be broadcast at any time.... Indecent broadcasts restricted. The Commission has defined broadcast indecency as language or material that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory organs or activities... Indecent programming contains sexual or excretory references that do not rise to the level of obscenity. As such, indecent material is protected by the First Amendment and cannot be banned entirely. It may, however, be restricted in order to avoid its broadcast during times of day when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience.... As a result broadcasts - both on television and radio - that fit within the definition and that are aired between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. are subject to indecency enforcement action.
One individual who has filed numerous official complaints with the Federal Communications Commission regarding the Howard Stern Show and indecency violations is Californian Al Westcott. Al Westcott has been engaged in regularly filing indecency complaints regarding the Stern Show since 1989. He has these comments regarding the FCC.
"It is the FCC that allows our public airwaves to be used by Howard Stern to broadcast the address of a web site that contains graphic photos of men and women f*****g dogs, horses and other animals."
The bottom line to the FCC is that even when presented with well documented evidence that CBS Radio and Howard Stern presented, live-on-air, a woman squirting whiskey from her (private parts) into her husband's mouth, the FCC refused to look at the evidence.
Howard Stern and CBS are allowed to use the public airwaves and make millions of dollars by broadcasting the web address of the North American Men Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) to our children. And the FCC doesn't have a problem with that.
Howard Stern and CBS are allowed to use the public airwaves and make millions of dollars by broadcasting women 'farting' with their vaginas.
They are allowed to hide behind the First Amendment and to broadcast a woman squirting whiskey from her (private parts). And the FCC doesn't have a problem with that.
Karmazin said Stern's core audience of young men will be valuable to CBS's efforts to promote its other programs. ...
While Stern told reporters that he will not alter his style for CBS, Karmazin said there will be some sensitivity to advertisers when determining the show's content. But Karmazin added that the program still must capture the outrageousness Stern's fans have come to expect.
'It has to be Howard," Karmazin said." |
Stern mentions how the FCC closely monitors his every word. Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth.
The FCC has not enforced the law. It has left America's families unprotected . FCC DOCUMENT - May 18, 2000 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rick Chessen
May 18, 2000 (202) 418-2300
Commissioner Gloria Tristani Objects to Dismissal of Indecency Complaint Against "Don and Mike" Radio Show
Washington, D.C.
The Enforcement Bureau of the FCC has issued a letter dismissing an indecency complaint filed by Flora Barton, Jose Armas and the National Latino Media Council arising out of an airing of the "Don and Mike Show" on WJFK-FM. Among other things, the complaint dealt with a "Spanish lesson," in which the hosts instructed a woman to repeat graphic sexual terms.
Commissioner Gloria Tristani said, "My initial view is that this material is actionably indecent, and that the Commission has failed to discharge its obligation to protect our children from indecent material on the public airwaves. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated instance. The Commission appears so averse to indecency cases, and has erected so many barriers to complaints from members of the public, that indecency enforcement has become virtually non-existent. It's time for the Commission to begin taking indecency cases seriously again. It's our duty to the law, and, more importantly, our duty to our children." ... |
| RADIO STATIONS AIRING "HOWARD STERN SHOW" TO BE HIT WITH FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS (FCC) DECENCY COMPLAINTS: press release |
| Michigan-based American Decency Association (formerly American Family Association of Michigan) and Miami-based attorney Jack Thompson announced today (10/23) their combining of forces to file, in the next week, formal decency complaints against numerous radio stations that air the raunchy "Howard Stern Show." They expect to secure stiff fines against the FCC-licensed stations and then seek denial of renewal of the licenses, each of which is worth tens of millions of dollars. ..... (SEE RELEASE) |
| New York Post nypost.com/ |
| .... Word of Stern's bustup came amid a vow by the Michigan-based American Decency Association to file formal complaints with the FCC against radio stations airing Stern's often-raunchy show. |
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