How the FCC Responds to Indecency Complaints

How the FCC Responds to Indecency Complaints

"How the FCC Responds to Indecency Complaints
By Frank Ahrens
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 9, 2005; 5:27 PM

The indecency process at the FCC begins when the agency receives a viewer or listener complaint about something they saw on television or heard on radio.

Complaints that seem to have merit proceed through a complex back-and-forth between the FCC and broadcaster that can take years. A recording or transcript of the broadcast is requested and the broadcaster typically denies it is indecent. Recently, the agency also has been requesting e-mails and other material that could relate to the incident.

'It's Spitzer-like in its approach,' said one radio executive who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of FCC reprisal. The reference was to the aggressive prosecutorial style of New York's Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer."


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