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The Effect of the FCC Fines on the Networks

The parents television council and these other groups are pushing the FCC to do is to find stations for fleeting indecency. So what happens after the Janet Jackson incident is this huge chilling effect where all of the networks, because of the greater fines, get super nervous. There's a scene of two people having sex and Fox ends up editing out the woman having an orgasm but leaves in the man having an orgasm. Is it teens or is it the grown-ups? I don't know. All of the time I spent watching that show is flocked out. 20 ABC stations, this is the same year as the Super Bowl incident, 20 ABC stations refuse to run it because they're afraid of FCC

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