Radio Station Owner Faces $220,000 Fine ("Naked Twister" & Ron Jeremy)

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators on Wednesday proposed a $220,000 indecency fine against the owner of two Kansas radio stations for broadcasting a "Naked Twister" game with local strippers and graphic interviews with porn stars.

The Federal Communications Commission said the material, which aired during the "Dare and Murphy Show," was indecent and clearly intended to "pander to and titillate the audience."

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The agency proposed a $27,500 fine -- the maximum allowed at the time -- for each of the four broadcasts by the two stations for a total penalty of $220,000.

The commission said the "Naked Twister" broadcast dwelled on descriptions of female genitalia and breasts in an explicit and graphic manner. Other broadcasts the FCC reviewed included interviews with porn actors Ron Jeremy and Dave Cummings.


http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-indecency-fine,0,4908754.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[DireStrike]

1. Pandering and titillation is not allowed to be broadcast?

Wow, sounds like... just about every broadcast channel will soon be up for reclamation!

[Fiona]

2. well

we must do SOMETHING about the scourge of radio nudity.

[MSgt213]

3. I really really hate nudity you can't see. Fine them bastards!!!

[TahitiNut]

4. Yeah, sure. Ban porn for the blind.

Braille is just a bunch of nipples, anyway. :silly:

[Anakin Skywalker]

9. Funniest Reply Yet!

:) Damn, you are good!

[LIBERALNAVYVET]

10. YOU ARE RIGHT

THIS IS TYPICAL OF THE HYPOCRITICAL RELIGIOUS RIGHT WHO CAN'T STAND OPEN TALK ABOUT SEX:yourock:

[snippy]

5. The republican nanny government strikes again.

This is what happens when people vote republican.

[Anakin Skywalker]

7. And the @$$holes have the nerve to LIE!

about wanting "smaller governments". All CONservatives claim this but the TRUTH is that they only want unrestricted power to exploit working people all the while being peeping toms at people's bedrooms (to make sure we don't do anything naughty that might offend god).

[Anakin Skywalker]

6. But this is the f***ing RADIO!!!

It's not as though the complainants (OK, who the hell is it this time? More minions of Brent Bozo the III?) can SEE the "naughty" stuffs. WTF?

[Anakin Skywalker]

8. I Am Sorry for the Expletives Today

but I have just had it with the "moral conservatives" clowns and their hypocrisies.

[damntexdem]

11. Uh, let's see:

a radio station broadcast a 'naked Twister' game. I bet the listeners had to stare hard at the speaker to see that one.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. It freaked the fundies out to imagine nekked people on the radio.

[Sabriel]

13. Thanks! I needed a laugh right now. n/t

[ozymandius]

14. If they had played Abu Graib tapes, would they have been fined?

We have such a collective cultural hangup about anything sexual.

Would anyone in our government censor the sounds of people being tortured on the radio? Just asking.