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STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER JONATHAN S. ADELSTEIN
Re: Infinity Broadcasting Operations, Inc.,
Licensee of Station WKRK-FM, Detroit, Michigan;
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. This NAL furthers our responsibility to
enforce statutory and regulatory provisions restricting
broadcast indecency. While this case predates another case
in which this station aired some of the most egregious
broadcast indecency that I have yet encountered, we impose
the statutory maximum fine here and remind broadcasters that
the Commission can and will avail itself of a range of
enforcement sanctions. I am also concerned that the
Commission did not take more steps to address other stations
which likely aired the same programming.
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.