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FCC COMMISSIONER QUESTIONS CABLERS' 'FAMILY TIER' PLAN Wednesday, December 14 2005 
FCC
member
Michael
Copps
is
urging
Congress
to
move
forward
with
measures
that
would
curtail
sexually
explicit
and
violent
material
on
cable
TV.
Appearing
before
a
Senate
Commerce
Committee
hearing
that
is
considering
his
reappointment
to
the
commission,
Copps,
a
Democrat,
appeared
decidedly
unimpressed
with
Monday's
proposal
by
several
cable
companies,
including
the
two
largest,
Time
Warner
and
Comcast,
that
they
provide
a
"family
tier"
of
cable
channels.
"We've
got
to
define
what
a
family
(more)REPORT: FCC LOOKING FOR BACK-DOOR APPROACH TO BANNING CABLE INDECENCY Friday, December 9 2005 
Stymied
in
its
efforts
to
impose
indecency
rules
on
cable
TV,
the
FCC
has
warned
Time
Warner
Cable
and
Comcast
Corp.
that
they
may
face
unwanted
conditions
on
their
proposed
acquisition
of
the
assets
of
the
Adelphia
cable
company
unless
they
agree
to
rein
in
sexually
explicit
programming,
the
Los
Angeles
Times
reported
today,
citing
unnamed
company
sources.
As
a
result,
the
two
cable
companies
are
pressuring
the
rest
of
the
industry
to
agree
on
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