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Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1102 Comments: 6 All in the Family: Family Viewing Hour All in the Family: Family Viewing Hour Backstory: The Family Viewing Hour, which was in effect from 1975 thru 1977, was mandated by the FCC to have the networks show ONLY family-friendly programming from 8 to 9 PM ET, since there was too much sex and violence on the tube during those hours.. (This ruling was rescinded two years later, in 1977.) This ruling forced Norman Lear, creator of "All in the Family," to move the show from its 8 PM Sat. time slot to 9 PM on Monday nights. The cast of "All in the Family" did a little in-house "tribute" to the Family Viewing our, with their new "1975 version" of the show's opening theme song...and here it is! This clip never aired, it was only performed live before a studio audience. User: spam_vigilante Jun 30, 2009 4:35 AM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 429 Comments: 0 Fox News Likes YouTube Censorship? Fox News Likes YouTube Censorship? On Fox News, Bill O'Reilly and Amanda Carpenter were more than happy to report on the new restrictions on YouTube, though without reporting on the the changes in profanity rules that are proving most controversial. Meanwhile, Fox Television, joined by other broadcast networks, is fighting all the way to the US Supreme Court to protect their right to broadcast profanity. The short clip I used from "The O'Reilly Factor" was broadcast on Fox News on December 10, 2008. The oral argument in Fox Television v FCC in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals from which I took two short clips for my video was originally broadcast on C-SPAN on December 20, 2006 and is available in full on the C-SPAN video archive online at http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products;_id=195903-1 User: TheNextDylan Dec 19, 2008 12:13 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: No Votes Hits: 551 Comments: 0 Family Guy: Tinkle Fairy Family Guy: Tinkle Fairy Mayor Adam West gets a visit from a helpful little friend. Watch more Family Guy on Adult Swim. From Family Guy. Jul 20, 2008 11:04 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 2780 Comments: 2 Unnecessary Censorship for Sesame Street Unnecessary Censorship for Sesame Street Clips from Sesame Street get treated to some Unnecessary Censorship - "Come & Play" episode from Jimmy Kimmel Live User: EViLMinD Jul 18, 2008 10:25 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 399 Comments: 0 Government Attic.org Government Attic.org A collection of informative and entertaining government documents scarcely seen by the public, including PDF files full of complaints made to the FCC about such shows as: Penn and Teller's Bullshit, Family Guy, The Simpsons, South Park, Jerry Springer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and even The Oprah Winfrey show among many others. To quote the main page: "The aim of this web site is to make available materials unavailable elsewhere. There is no topic-oriented theme to our content. If we have a theme, it is one of openness, hence our motto: Videre licet." User: Shiggety Jul 2, 2008 6:13 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 1885 Comments: 0 George Carlin Arrested for Seven Dirty Words George Carlin Arrested for Seven Dirty Words George Carlin, the influential comedian whose routines used profanity, scatology and absurdity to point out the silliness and hypocrisy of human life, has died. He was 71. Carlin performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. Carlin performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, died of heart failure Sunday in Los Angeles, according to publicist Jeff Abraham. Carlin went into St. John's Health Center on Sunday afternoon, complaining of chest pain, and died at 5:55 p.m. PT. Carlin performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, and maintained a busy performing schedule, which included regular TV specials for HBO. "He was a genius and I will miss him dearly," Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press. Carlin was often quoted, his best lines traded like baseball cards. "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" began one famous routine. Then there were the non-sequiturs: "The bigger they are, the worse they smell," he observed. He filled three best-selling books, several record albums and countless television appearances with his material. He appreciated the impact his words made on fans. "These are nice additional merit badges that you earn if you've left a mark on a person or on some people," he told CNN.com in 2004. "I'd say it's flattering, but flattery implies insincerity, so I call it a compliment." But he was probably best known for a routine that began, "I was thinking about the curse words and the swear words, the cuss words and the words that you can't say." It was a monologue, known as "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television," that got Carlin arrested and eventually led to the Supreme Court. The "Seven Dirty Words" bit, which was initially recorded for 1972's "Class Clown" album, prompted a landmark indecency case after New York's WBAI-FM radio aired it in 1973. The case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the justices ruled 5-4 that the sketch was "indecent but not obscene," giving the FCC broad leeway to determine what constituted indecency on the airwaves. "So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of," Carlin said. "In the context of that era, it was daring. "It just sounds like a very self-serving kind of word. I don't want to go around describing myself as a 'groundbreaker' or a 'difference-maker' because I'm not and I wasn't," he said. "But I contributed to people who were saying things that weren't supposed to be said." Carlin, who was also an author, was slated to receive in November the 2008 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, given by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. "In his lengthy career as a comedian, writer and actor, George Carlin has not only made us laugh, but he makes us think," Kennedy Center Chairman Stephen Schwarzman said in a statement. "His influence on the next generation of comics has been far-reaching." In a typically wry response, Carlin said, "Thank you, Mr. Twain. Have your people call my people." Carlin hosted the first broadcast of "Saturday Night Live" in October 1975. He played the character of Mr. Conductor on the PBS series "Shining Time Station" and starred in more than a dozen HBO specials. Carlin was also a regular on The Tonight Show. He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies, from his own comedy specials to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" in 1989, the AP reported. He also starred in three of comedic director Kevin Smith's movie -- 1999's "Dogma," 2001's "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and 2004's "Jersey Girl." And his voice was so familiar and tuned to the craft of comedy that he was often asked to appear in cartoons, including Toon City's "Tarzan II," Disney's "Cars" and two episodes of "The Simpsons." He won four Grammy Awards, each for best spoken comedy album, and was nominated for five Emmy awards, according to AP. Jun 26, 2008 12:43 PM
Permanent Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 455 Comments: 0 The Onion: FCC Okays Nudity on TV if it's Alyson Hannigan The Onion: FCC Okays Nudity on TV if it's Alyson Hannigan An FCC official clarifies new broadcasting regulations that clear the way for more nude scenes featuring the beautiful, auburn-haired Alyson Hannigan. User: TheNextDylan Mar 10, 2008 10:29 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 412 Comments: 2 Bill Moyers Journal: FCC and Media Consolidation Bill Moyers Journal: FCC and Media Consolidation Publishing conglomerates have been buying up local newspapers for more than thirty years, but they've been prohibited from buying radio and TV stations. From Bill Moyers Journal. Dec 16, 2007 1:01 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 162 Comments: 0 FCC and Media Consolidation FCC and Media Consolidation FCC Chair pushes deregulation to allow one company to own TV, radio, and newspapers in local market Monday December 3rd, 2007 "There are just five or six companies in America that dominate the media landscape?giant multinational conglomerates. So there may be a lot of different voices but they're coming from the same ventriloquist." -Jonathan Adelstein, FCC Commissioner Dec 7, 2007 2:06 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 487 Comments: 4 Bill Moyers Journal: Media Ownership Rules Bill Moyers Journal: Media Ownership Rules From their web site:"On November 2, 2007, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced that the Commission would hold the sixth and final public hearing on media cons... Nov 16, 2007 8:03 PM
Permanent Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 283 Comments: 1 Weezer - We Are All On Drugs Weezer - We Are All On Drugs The music video for We are All on Drugs, the sixth track from Weezer's fifth studio album, Make Believe. The song became the second single off of the album, the band's thirteenth single overall. The video shown here was the second music video made by the band for this song, the first (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCRuGrnj-3Y) being a re-edit of Grim Reaper's music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhTdKigJhZc) for their song, Fear No Evil, the first track off of their 1985 album of the same name. When MTV aired this music video they chose to change the lyrics from "We are All on Drugs" to "We are All in Love," a decision made in an effort to appease the FCC as well as network officials. The bastardization of the lyrics infuriated many fans (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1757765), but the lyrics were never changed back. Despite the lyrics having been changed, the original title is still shown as the headline on the newspaper in the barber shop. User: squidlywinks Nov 16, 2007 5:30 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 126 Comments: 0 Democracy Now Headlines Nov. 9 Part 2 Democracy Now Headlines Nov. 9 Part 2 Part two of Democracy Now!'s headlines for November 9th. Those being: Military Attorney Criticizes Guantanamo Mlitary Commissions Electronic Voting Problems Reported in Ohio Merck Agrees to $4.85 Billion Vioxx Settlement Report: 25% of Homeless Are Veterans Anti-War Groups Barred From Long Beach Veterans Day Parade Tombstone of Dead Soldier Defaced Judge Holds Up Re-Trial Of Ehren Watada Bolivia Approves U.N. Declaration of Indigenous Rights FEMA Press Secretary Resigns After Fake News Conference Judge Refuses to Throw Out Jena Six Charges FBI Investigates Noose In City Office in Louisiana FCC To Hold Hearing in Seattle 18 Peace Activists Arrested At Iowa Campaign Offices Nov 11, 2007 9:05 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 14668 Comments: 4 Robot Chicken: Battlestar Galactica vs FCC Robot Chicken: Battlestar Galactica vs FCC FCC tries to understand Battlestar Galactica. From Robot Chicken. Aug 25, 2007 11:46 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1260 Comments: 3 Robot Chicken: Rabbits on a Rollercoaster Robot Chicken: Rabbits on a Rollercoaster First aired Sunday, August 26, 2007. RT 11:11. Randy experiences cross-dressing and death in The Worst Halloween. The crew of Battlestar Galactica defeats the FCC threat. Dick Tracy earns his name. Behold, the newest adventure of Turbo Teen. M.A.S.K.’s Matt Tracker takes a bride. User: spam_vigilante Aug 24, 2007 3:18 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: Ok Hits: 1418 Comments: 0 Unnecessary Censorship: Aug 4, 2007 Unnecessary Censorship: Aug 4, 2007 Helping the FCC by bleeping out words whether they need bleeping out or not. The August 4th, 2007 version of weekly bit done on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Aug 6, 2007 1:07 AM
 
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