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FCC To Fine Fox Over 'Dad'

  • The Wrap, Sunday, June 6, 2010 11:47 PM
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing to fine Fox $25,000 for failing to properly respond to its questions about the airing of a Jan. 3 episode of "American Dad" installment that drew 100,000 consumer complaints. In what could develop into a new test of the FCC's indecency authority, the commission is rejecting Fox's bid to limit indecency enforcement probes to stations in areas where complaints have been filed.

In several indecency enforcement cases in recent years -- among them the Janet Jackson Super Bowl case -- the commission has enforced fines against all network owned and operated stations. The "American Dad" episode featured a conversation between two characters about their race horse and the need to keep him happy by keeping him sexually active.

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