[Swprograms] Frank Charlie Charlie won't try to gag XM and Sirius

[Joel Rubin <jmrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/262536p-224778c.html

FCC won't try to gag Air Howard

WASHINGTON - Howard Stern is safe in outer space.

The Federal Communications Commission rejected a request yesterday to
begin imposing decency standards on satellite radio, where Stern is
taking his show after being targeted repeatedly by the agency.

The decision turns aside a radio station owner's request that
broadcast indecency regulations apply to subscription satellite
services.

Saul Levine, who owns three radio stations in California, asked the
commission in October to modify its satellite radio rules to include
an indecency provision similar to the one that governs broadcast
stations using public airwaves.

The agency, in a letter from media bureau chief Kenneth Ferree,
declined.

"The commission has previously ruled that subscription-based services
do not call into play the issue of indecency," Ferree wrote.

Stern has been involved in the two biggest radio fines imposed by the
agency. That includes a record $1.75 million settlement over the
summer.

The Associated Press

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