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C-SPAN To Televise FCC Profanity Hearings

Broadcasting & Cable, Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:15 PM

All that talk about "profane" talk not belonging on TV will be on TV after all. The oral arguments in broadcasters' challenge to the FCC's March profanity rulings against Fox Billboard Awards broadcasts will be televised.

That's according to the docket of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York. The court has informed the attorneys involved that on Dec. 11, it granted a request from C-SPAN to televise the Dec. 20 arguments.

Says Adonis Hoffman, senior vice president and counsel for the American Association of Advertising Agencies, "now that the fines have been statutorily increased, there are more than constitutional principles at stake. Everyone wants to know where the lines should be drawn."

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