Hi Dan,
I received a report of numerous instances of profanity on your show tonight. Can you confirm whether you were aware of the language in question?
We interfere as little as possible with the content of shows except when it relates to matters that jeopardize the station's broadcasting licence. The language from our by-laws is below:
ARTICLE VII PROGRAMMING
Section 1: The Board of Directors shall not make any rules or regulations that limit the content of any station program or in any way censure a program hosts views and opinions expressed during their show, except where required by law to protect the license of the station.
FCC guidance on obscene, indecent and profane language can be found here.
I will be pulling the re-run for this week and would like to hear back from you soon.
Thanks,
Daniel, on behalf of the WVEW Board
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Hi Dan,
I received a report of numerous instances of profanity on your show tonight. Can you confirm whether you were aware of the language in question?
We interfere as little as possible with the content of shows except when it relates to matters that jeopardize the station's broadcasting licence. The language from our by-laws is below:
my "punishment"
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Deciding what's obscene, indecent or profane
Each type of content has a distinct definition:
Obscene content does not have protection by the First Amendment. For content to be ruled obscene, it must meet a three-pronged test established by the Supreme Court: It must appeal to an average person's prurient interest; depict or describe sexual conduct in a "patently offensive" way; and, taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Indecent content portrays sexual or excretory organs or activities in a way that is patently offensive but does not meet the three-prong test for obscenity.
Profane content includes "grossly offensive" language that is considered a public nuisance.
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