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STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER JONATHAN S. ADELSTEIN
Re: AMFM Radio Licenses, L.L.C., Licensee of Station
WWDC(FM), Washington, DC; Clear Channel Broadcasting
Licenses, Inc., Licensee of Station WRXL(FM), Richmond,
Virginia; Capstar TX Limited Partnership, Licensee of
Station WOSC(FM), Bethany Beach, Delaware; Notice of
Apparent Liability for Forfeiture
I support this Notice of Apparent Liability for the
broadcast of indecent material at a time when children may
be in the audience. By issuing this NAL, we step up to our
responsibility to enforce statutory and regulatory
provisions restricting broadcast indecency. Once again, we
impose statutory maximum fines and remind broadcasters that
the Commission can and will avail itself of a range of
enforcement sanctions, including acting on each separate
indecent utterance, or initiating proceedings that could
result in the revocation of station licenses for serious,
repeated violations.
Since I arrived at the Commission, we have greatly
stepped up our enforcement against indecent broadcasts. I
expect that these stepped-up actions will convince
broadcasters that they cannot ignore their responsibility to
serve the public interest and to avoid the broadcast of
indecent material over the public airwaves. Indeed, Clear
Channel has recently taken steps to show that it is meeting
this obligation, including the payment of an unprecedented
fine without objection for a past indecency violation.