FCC Commissioner Micahel Copps had the following to say about the O&A Broadcast
...During a PolicyMaker's Breakfast, FCC Commissioner Micahel Copps had the following to say about the O&A Broadcast (Personally, I don't believe the line about their Email servers, but who knows? Maybe they have a crappy webhost):
On the subject of indecency, Copps reiterated his contention that the burden of proof should shift away from the listener, encouraging broadcasters to voluntarily keep tapes of their stations. Regarding its ongoing investigation of Opie & Anthony’s "Sex For Sam" stunt, Copps said there was "a considerable feeling at the Commission that we could start an investigation without a formal complaint." Saying "this race to the bottom… is not acceptable and it’s not in the public interest," he called on the broadcast and cable industries to voluntarily discuss resurrecting a code of conduct that was thrown out in the ’70s after the Department of Justice raised antitrust concerns. Copps said the Commission received so many e-mails about the O&A broadcast, which originated on Infinity’s WNEW/New York, that one of its servers collapsed.
Commissioner Abernathy’s comments on O&A weren’t as harsh. "Just because I find something offensive and tasteless, I won’t go the next step and declare it indecent," she said. What action the Commission takes on the O&A debacle will be determined by whether what was broadcast is judged to have "risen to the level of indecent speech," she said.
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