Source: http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-usa-v-fox-tele-stations-inc-et-al-no-10-1293-sup-ct
Timestamp: 2014-03-13 06:53:44
Document Index: 341373578

Matched Legal Cases: ['§1464', '§15', '§303', '§73', '§1464', '§1464']

any obscene, indecent, or profane language by means of radio communication shall be fined . . . or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.” The Federal Communi­cations Commission (Commission) has been instructed by Congress to enforce §1464 between the hours of 6 a.m.and 10 p.m., see Public Telecommunications Act of 1992,§15(a), 106 Stat. 954, note following 47 U. S. C. §303,p. 113 (Broadcasting of Indecent Programming). And the Commission has applied its regulations to radio and tele­vision broadcasters alike, see Fox I, supra, at 505–506; see also 47 CFR §73.3999 (2010) (Commission regulationprohibiting the broadcast of any obscene material or any indecent material between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.). Althoughthe Commission has had the authority to regulate inde­cent broadcasts under §1464 since 1948 (and its prede­cessor commission, the Federal Radio Commission, since 1927), it did not begin to enforce §1464 until the 1970’s. See Campbell, Pacifica Reconsidered: Implications for t