West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s ascension to the chairmanship of the Senate Commerce Committee could mean a Senate far more active on broadcast television issues, industry executives and public-interest groups say. But media executives yearning for a drastic change in terms of how the government...
The Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their appeal of a decision overturning the FCC’s fining of 20 CBS stations in the Janet Jackson Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction.” In court papers, the agencies are asking the high court to take...
Several Supreme Court justices hearing arguments in a case that may redefine television indecency standards indicated they are hesitant to broadly loosen obscenity rules under the banner of protecting the First Amendment. The questioning today signal the case, which originated when the Federal Communications...
Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction on the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show may have been exciting, but it didn’t violate TV indecency standards, a federal appeals court ruled today. The decision struck a blow to the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to raise indecency standards on broadcast...