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03/16/206
Christian
Coalition Commends FCC Chairman Kevin Martin for Imposing a Record $3.6
Million in Fines Against CBS WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Christian Coalition of America commends the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Kevin Martin, for proposing a record $3.6 million fine against dozens of CBS stations and affiliates yesterday for indecency on television. The FCC said that a CBS program, "Without a Trace" which aired in December 2004 had graphic depictions of "teenage boys and girls participating in a sexual orgy". The FCC also rejected an appeal by CBS and upheld its previous fine of $550,000 against 20 of CBS' stations for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl in 2004, causing hundreds of thousands of parents to protest to the FCC. The President of the Christian Coalition of America, Roberta Combs, said, "Congress needs to give the FCC even greater weapons to go against out-of- control broadcasters such as CBS. I urge the Senate leadership to finally bring to the Senate floor for a vote, the "Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act" which passed overwhelmingly in the U.S. House of Representatives by a margin of 389-38 last April. There is no excuse for a delay in the Senate floor vote now that Senate hearings have been completed." Mrs. Combs in her testimony on November 29th before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, chaired by Senator Ted Stevens, (R-AK), implored the U.S. Senate to pass the commonsense bill passed by the U. S. House of Representatives. Senator Sam Brownback's "Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act" will increase fines to $500,000 per violation of decency standards from the current level of $32,500 per violation. Christian Coalition urges the Senate to also adopt the provisions in the House bill, which will eventually lead to license revocation for repetitive violations of the decency standards.
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