How come NBC didn't get fined by the FCC?

[Baltimore Shooter]

How come NBC didn't get fined by the FCC for airing this live confrontation by Champ Car drivers Paul Tracy and Alex Tagliani after the crash that Tracy initated at the San Jose Grand Prix a few weeks ago?

Watch this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1aPSOznNe0&search=paul%20tracy and you can clearly hear Tagliani drop the f-bomb several times (even through his helmet) on live TV. There was no seven second delay to bleep or cut the audio on that word. So how come NBC is exempt?

Warren

[Freddie Mercury]

With the helmet and the accent, I wouldn't call that clear. Strange that they chose to cut away when the fight started and not the language.

[shootercub]

Because the same idiots that scour tivoed television, searching for any kind of "indecent" programming, LOVE racing!

The FCC can't fine the programming that their fellow decency crusaders actually watch. That just woudn't be fair!

The whole idea is recockulous.

[george121]

If you want NBC to pay a fine send a copy to the F.C.C. Then wait if I remember it took around 2 years for CBS to get fined.

[circle7]

There's some new blood in there after colin powells kid left the fcc... but are the double or triple standards these days?

[Tdomi74]

My understanding is that Live Sporting Events are exempt from getting fined. Unless, if it's post type sound.

[TXPhotog]

It's all complaint driven. If no one complains then they don't do anything. The FCC isn't just sitting in a room with hundreds of tvs waiting for somthing indecent.

[nickg]

he was saying "what the flawk".......

[Crimson]

It's all complaint driven. If no one complains then they don't do anything. The FCC isn't just sitting in a room with hundreds of tvs waiting for somthing indecent.

There will be no complaints. I saw the overnight prelims after this race and no one was watching. :) Or atleast no one in my market.

[TXPhotog]

Little Leaguer cusses, manager hits him

ESPN to use 5-second delay after Staten Island player swears on live TV



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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Staten Island manager Nick Doscher and one of his players were reprimanded by Little League World Series organizers Monday following an incident during the New York team's 1-0 loss to Lemont, Ill., in which the player yelled an obscenity and Doscher responded by striking him.

Staten Island, trailing by a run, had just turned a double play in the top of the sixth when the unidentified player swore as the players huddled in the dugout before the team's final turn at-bat.

The obscenity was clearly heard on ESPN's prime-time broadcast of the game, just before the network cut to commercial. It appeared that Doscher then struck the player with an open hand."Little League International was extremely disappointed in the behavior of the player and coach involved in the incident,'' the organization said in a statement.

"Because the incident was not noticed by any umpire, the Little League International Tournament Committee has reprimanded the player and manager. Both have been advised that any further similar or unsportsmanlike behavior will result in removal from the Little League International Tournament.''

Neither Doscher nor the player were immediately available for comment. The team planned a dinner off Little League grounds Monday night.
ESPN said it has decided to use a five-second delay for remaining Little League broadcasts.

Staten Island (0-2) faces Phoenix (1-1) on Tuesday, the final day of pool play.
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Now granted the FCC can't do anything since it was on cable but still I guess the delay button is going to become a must for any live sporting events.

[shootercub]

You are right. The FCC doesn't sit in room surrounded by tvs, just waiting for something questionable.

But these fine decency crusaders are....

http://www.americandecency.org/broadcasttv.htm

And this time, they've got GOD on their side!

[Baltimore Shooter]

On the subject of the FCC and , I came across this tidbit fron the NATPE Daily Lead:

Adelstein: FCC indecency decisions go too far
The FCC risks losing its power to regulate programming if the majority continues its increased policing of indecency standards, Democratic FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said in a speech earlier this week. "I believe that the Commission's last batch of decisions dangerously expands the scope of indecency and profanity law without first attempting to determine whether we are applying the appropriate contemporary community standards," he said at the Progress & Freedom Foundation in Aspen, Colo.
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And this one from today's Daily Lead:
FCC denied on request to expedite Janet Jackson case
The Federal Communications Commission will not get an expedited hearing of CBS's challenge to the $550,000 fine over the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has set Sept. 27, instead of the FCC's requested Sept. 11, as the deadline for the first brief, followed by 44 days to respond and counter. As a result, oral arguments are unlikely to begin before late November; the FCC had wanted to begin arguments earlier that month.
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Strange thing is, the FCC wanted to start proceedings on Sept. 11 but was denied. I wonder if that means they want the issue to seek under the radar of public scrutiny due to all the 9/11 tributes.

Warren