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Originally Posted by pan6467
THE FCC was supposed to be guardian to PUBLIC airwwaves, simply put the government felt if you owned a station that broadcast through airwave frequencies you bought then they had jurisdiction. The networks and channels accepted this, and gave the FCC the right to police them in order to "rent" that particular frequency.
Cable/satellite tv and now radio are able to air what they want (although it's just the premiums that allow nudity). The FCC has no jurisdiction however over ANY CABLE/SATELLITE stations yet and therefore they are able to broadcast whatever they like. This is what is killing regular broadcast and why they feel they have to get racier...
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Actually this is not entirely true. It turns out that the FCC has just as much control over cable television as it does over network television, it just chooses not to exercise this power as much. Why? Well the FCC only responds to complaints made over specific broadcasts. Most people who have cable understand that if you don’t like a specific program you have 1million other channels to choose from. Technically, however, the FCC could regulate cable television just as much as they do the networks (same goes for Satellite Radio). Scared yet?
http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~colleen-oconnor/
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/csgen.html