Michael Powell to resign?

[Daniel Billings]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Mixer" <mixer@zoso.net>
To: "Daniel Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
Cc: "Sid Schweiger" <sid@wrko.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: Michael Powell to resign?

> I will also say that it certainly SEEMED that the FCC was being a lot more 
> picky about the regulations....I forget the name of the movie as it is 
> late- but how many ABC stations were too scared to broacast the movie that 
> has been shown on ABC several times before? The FCC is there to maintain 
> rules of broadcasting, not to scare everyone.

So the FCC is to blame when station owners act like idiots?  Note that the 
movie was only dropped by a handful of stations and no action was taken 
against the stations that did carry it.