| June 15, 2006 | -
President Bush approved new legislation that allows the FCC to fine broadcasters up to $325,000 for each indecency.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| July 28, 2005 | -
President Bush's
favorite dirty joke was reported to be: “The only time I ever hit two good balls is when I step on a rake.”
| Source:
The Fix
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| December 6, 2004 | - The FCC estimated that 99.8 percent of complaints about broadcast indecency were filed by one conservative group, the Parents Television Council, accounting for the exorbitant rise in the number of complaints that chairman Michael Powell described to Congress earlier this year, from 350 in 2001 to 240,000 in 2003.
| Source:
Media Week
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| October 13, 2004 | - The FCC fined Fox television $1.2 million for a broadcast of "Married by America" in April 2003 that featured strippers covered in whipped cream.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| November 6, 2003 | - The Federal Communications Commission decreed that after 2005 all digital television receivers must respond to a "broadcast flag" copyright mechanism to prevent unauthorized redistribution of movies and TV shows; computer scientists predicted that the mechanism will be defeated and that the copy protection will simply prevent legitimate uses.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| December 26, 2000 | - Major media companies, fearing competition from church groups, community centers, and Boy Scout troops, purchased a piece of legislation that ended the plans of the Federal Communications Commission to license over 1,000 low-power radio stations to small organizations.
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