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FCC REJECTS INDECENCY COMPLAINTS Tuesday, January 25 2005 A divided FCC on Monday rejected 36 indecency complaints against a variety of TV programs that aired between Oct. 2001 and Feb. 2004, including episodes of Friends, Gilmore Girls, NYPD Blue, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons. The complaints had been filed by the Parents Television Council, a watchdog group that has spearheaded efforts to bar racy content from broadcast programs. The commission concluded that none of the programs cited in the complaints "were (more) FCC TO HOLD HEARINGS ON TV VIOLENCE Thursday, July 29 2004 
Presumably
spurred
by
Democratic
commissioner
Michael
Copps,
the
FCC
has
begun
soliciting
public
comment
on
TV
violence
and
whether
it
should
be
further
regulated.
Copps
has
for
years
criticized
broadcasters
for
their
output
of
violent
programs
and
has
cited
studies
indicating
that
they
may
contribute
substantially
to
violent
crime.
The
FCC
also
wants
to
know
whether
parents
are
checking
the
ratings
of
TV
shows
and
using
the
V-chip
to
prevent
their
kids
from
viewing
objectionable
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FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on Wednesday called on the TV networks to set aside 25 percent of their primetime hours for programs from independent producers. Speaking by closed-circuit TV to a convention of TV programmers in Las Vegas, Copps said that the disappearance of independent producers has resulted in a lack of diversity in programming. "Most observers are telling me that the doors of opportunity are fast closing and that we won't have a new generation of Norman Lears and Marcy Carseys and Ted Turners because the opportunities they had are gone," he said. With networks taking direct aim at the white, 18-34-year-old audience, he added, children, the elderly, and minorities are being neglected.
