New FCC complaint form for offensive TV

...People who are offended by radio or television broadcasts now have an easier way to voice their complaints to the Federal Communications Commission. FCC advisor Penny Nance gave the good news to the public this week. "The FCC is pleased to announce changes to the FCC website that will entail a new complaint form and process for filing complaints about broadcast material," she stated. According to Nancy, the new site -- called the "Obscenity/Indecency/Profanity Home Page" -- allows individuals to just "point, click, and complain." The FCC expects complaints to rise as people become aware of the ease of operation.

by Bill Fancher of Agape Press

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Upon checking out the site myself, it states it is not up and running yet.....so stay tuned.

Ummmm, I wonder how many times that "Desperate Housewives" show will be hit~~truly making ABC desperate?


Below is what they have proposed: Not too complicated! The consumer will have the choice of emailing it or submitting it to a web site that hasn't been determined yet.

Federal Communications Commission
Washington, DC 20554
FCC Form 475B
Obscene, Profane, and/or Indecent Material Complaint Form
Consumer’s Information:
*Name:
*Address:
E-Mail Address:
Daytime Telephone Number:
To speed the processing of your complaint, please provide as much as possible of the
information marked below with an asterisk (*). This information is not required but
providing it should eliminate our need to contact you for more information.
Information not marked with an asterisk (*), if available, is also helpful. By
including as much detail as possible, we will be able to act more quickly on your
complaint.
*(1) Date of Program: ________________
*(2) Time of Program: _______________
(3) Network: ______________________
*(4) Call Sign, Channel OR Frequency of the station on which you viewed/heard the
material: ___________________
*(5) City and State Where Program was Viewed: __________________
(6) Name of Program or DJ/Personality/Song/Film:__________________________
*Please include below as many details as possible in order to help the FCC determine
whether the material was obscene, profane, or indecent (such as specific words, language,
images, etc.):

You may submit this form over the Internet at [web address to be inserted] or by e-mail to fccinfo@fcc.gov. Or you may mail this form and related information to: Federal Communications Commission, Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, 445 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20554.

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If emailing our representatives helps, well this can't hurt!

Perhaps with enough complaints, perhaps the big 3~~ ABC, CBS, NBC~~will start to pay attention and create some family friendly shows. (Fox too....)

The thing is, we shouldn't HAVE to purchase cable to have decent shows in our homes. (Wow, radical thought!) Commercials pay for the "free" television; but in recent years TV just has not been worth viewing. Maybe those companies ought to quit advertising and help the American consumer boycott these bad shows. Nah, that won't happen~~those companies would lose money and whoa, money is MORE important than the consumer. Forgive my cynacism......

No one in recent years has really wanted to provide quality programming (the exception was Touched By An Angel and now Joan of Arcadia both on CBS!)~~thus forcing the consumer; who can afford that extra bill or should have to?; to purchase cable packages to get 1 or 2 channels that ARE family friendly mixed in with a bunch of channels you don't want, don't need, will never watch or object to.

Why can't we have more 'I Love Lucy', 'Mayberry RFD' or 'Leave It to Beaver'? How about 'Highway to Heaven', 'The Waltons', or 'Star Trek'?

Shows that were entertaining, funny, touching AND clean! (Even James T. Kirk was ALWAYS a gentleman......)

This is why I have had television for only 20 months in the last seven YEARS~~and it has been nearly 2 years ago since my last try.....

Until I CAN get the channels I want, I'm not spending my hard earned money on .....trash~~~~sorry "Desperate Housewives".


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~UPDATE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
11/22 from Agape Press
by Jody Brown

Perhaps motivating the creation of the online complaint process was the glut of indecency and obscenity complaints the FCC had been receiving before that.

From July 1, 2005, and September 30, 2005 indecency/obscenity complaints jumped from 6,161 to 26,185. That would be consistent with the rapid increase of broadcast indecency complaints reported by the FCC over the past several years.

CNSNews.com Information Services reports the following statistics:

• in 2000, the FCC reported a mere 111 indecency complaints
• that number tripled to 345 in 2001
• then skyrocketed to 13,922 in 2002
• to 202,032 in 2003
• and finally, to more than one million in 2004.
• 540,000 of the complaints in 2004 dealt with the "wardrobe malfunction" with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake.

{Just when you thought TV COULDN'T GET ANY WORSE.....}

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