FCC fines ABC over NYPD Blue nudity

[Raph's Girl]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080126/tv_nm/fcc_abc_dc_1

The Federal Communications Commission on Friday said it plans to fine the Walt Disney Co's ABC network $1.4 million for airing an episode of "NYPD Blue" in 2003 that showed a woman's nude buttocks.

The company said it opposes the fine and plans to appeal.

In a notice filed on Friday, the agency said 52 television ABC stations in the Central and Mountain time zones had aired the scene at 9 p.m. in violation of federal restrictions against broadcasting "obscene material" between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.

The agency said it received "numerous complaints" about the scene, in which a young boy walks in on a nude woman about to take a shower.

Stations in the Eastern and Pacific time zones were exempt because they broadcast the February 25, 2003, episode at 10 p.m. local time.

ABC said in a statement that it had broadcast the episode and others from the cop drama, which ran from 1993 to 2005, with appropriate parental warnings and with V-chip enabled program ratings when they were available.

The network added that the show had been on the air for nearly a decade when the episode in question aired "and the realistic nature of its storylines was well known to the viewing public."

Wait a darned second here. The FCC are complaining over them showing a woman's butt after YEARS of showing Dennis Franz?! WTF?! So it's ok for a man to show his arse for years but not a woman?!

[愛]

The cloister be behind them womanly butt cheeks. NSFW!

[Jo Dawn]

Originally Posted by Ai

The cloister be behind them womanly butt cheeks. NSFW!

Yet... You consider Franz SFW?

[Masked Ninja]

I guess my question is, why are they complaining 5 years later? Perhaps they didn't receive enough complaints to bust 'em when it was still relevant? Or perhaps the bureaucracy took this long to get the complaints through?

Or... I dunno, this seems pretty stupid to me. It's just a butt.

[Machias Banshee]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

Wait a darned second here. The FCC are complaining over them showing a woman's butt after YEARS of showing Dennis Franz?! WTF?! So it's ok for a man to show his arse for years but not a woman?!

I think its more of the fact that a naked woman and a Child are in the same scene... It was probably shown as a rerun, and caught people's attention again...

[raphael_is_cool]

Of all the things on NYPD Blue, people complain about that? It was meant as a comical scene. I could imagine something like that in Friends.

NYPD Blue rules, and I'm sure it doesn't go out that early anyway. Sheesh.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Masked Ninja

I guess my question is, why are they complaining 5 years later? Perhaps they didn't receive enough complaints to bust 'em when it was still relevant? Or perhaps the bureaucracy took this long to get the complaints through?

Or... I dunno, this seems pretty stupid to me. It's just a butt.

Oh please. Protect my son from something that was on the air 5 years ago with out complaint. Is it even in reruns? GOd... now I know what the F and both C's stand for. Do they need to funnel money into some govenrment cause that badly that a 5 year old non-issue needs to grab money out of something? First the FCC lets major networks get owned by single conglomerates, all the while blaneting it in a bunch of crappy regulations that make Children's programming in syndication unprofitable, now this. F C C them.