Next week will not be a good one for radio or television. The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 goes into law next Friday, July 20. The maximum penalties for obscene, indecent and profane broadcasts will jump from $32,500 to $325,000 for each violation or each day of a continuing violation.
There’s a cap to what the Federal Communications Commission can extort…er…extract. Any continuing violation cannot exceed $3 million for any single act. Those numbers aren’t typos Read more from John Gorman at his blog http://gormanmediablog.blogspot.com/
