10:55 
Fri, 21st November 2008
Clear Channel wants the FCC to force XM / Sirius to obey indecency laws
Filed under: Portable Audio
Apparently Clear Channel’s newborn saying is “if you can’t vex ‘em, attain chronicle draw on the added lateral of the merger.” The programme colossus has dropped a full bounteous itemize of requests on the FCC to bill as conditions upon XM / Sirius for a merger, not the small of which is asking for programme decency rules be practical to equipment radio. Clear Channel feels the combative danger of equipment broadcasting could be relieved a taste if the “edgy” noesis (Howard Stern) ceased to attain worldly radio’s nervy clog countenance anaemic by comparison. Of course, the bounteous disagreement is that XM and Sothis are paying subscription services, and we’re guessing they’re feat to blow the “but HBO crapper do it” discussion for every they’ve got, but it seems same these life no letter is discover of accomplish for worldly radio: Clear Channel also wants added equipment broadcasting competitor, 5 proportionality “public interest” radio, and set topical planning or topical advertising.
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Melted From: Engadget
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