The National Journal’s David Hatch reports that the Senate Commerce Committee will consider legislation on television indecency this spring. Speaking at an NAB legislative event, committee staff director Lisa Sutherland said she wasn’t sure if new legislation would extend to cable television, but Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), speaking at the same event, said he hoped to expand indecency rules that now apply to broadcast stations to cable and satellite providers.
Rockefeller’s proposal, which reportedly also requires to the FCC to reduce “gratuitous violence” on TV, would be introduced as an amendment, or a series of amendments, to any telecom reform bill.
Cynthia Brumfield at 7:11 AM|Comments(0)
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