Wednesday July 12, 2006 12:52 pm
FCC Checks Live Sports For Profanity
The FCC is cracking down on profanity on the air, especially at live sporting events. The commission has requested that broadcasters turn over tapes, in an attempt to find foul language coming from spectators, coaches, and players.
The commission instated tougher rules for live broadcast TV in 2004, shortly after Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction” bared her breast for a few seconds at the Super Bowl halftime show. Some of these new rules included stricter restrictions on “profane and indecent” expletives, which may cause a problem for live sports broadcasts, which are often equipped with on-field microphones.
Live programming has always been difficult to control, so many fear that this mean the end of live broadcast TV. Now under a new law, broadcasters may face fines of as high as $325,000 per violation.
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it’s one thing to fine Al Michales if he signs off with, “Thanks for watching Monday Night Football, you Mother F***rs! Goodnight!” But to fine FOX because Joe from The Bronx let off with a few choice expletives after the Yankees lose to the Red Sox in 14 innings?
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Sports fans throughout America should be outraged at this government action. Live broadcasts of sports events are enjoyed by millions of Americans on a regular basis. Taking fans out of the NASCAR cockpit or off of the NFL sidelines will seriously diminish the quality of the broadcast.
I’m a Red Sox fan, but hearing 60,000 Yankee fans chant “Who’s your daddy?” at Pedro Martinez in Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS added to the immediacy and suspense of the action. If network censors block out the roar of the crowd, the broadcast quality will be as sanitzed as hospital cuisine. Next thing you know, the government will find Packer fans’ cheesehead helmets indecent.
The Cleveland Browns’ end zone fans should do us all a favor and pelt our blessed government with thousands of dog bones over this one!
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