Bob & Tom's EP Speaks About the FCC
March 2, 2005
Last week on All Access, Bob & Tom Executive Producer Marty Bender (also the Operations Manager of WFBQ, WRZX and WNDE) was chosen for the website's "10 Questions With..." section. Included in the Q&A was this:
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3) How have the recent FCC regulations impacted the way you program your music and the station’s dialogue on the air? What are your feelings about these recent changes?
"I actually think there is a method and pattern to their madness. Instead of complaining about it, you should download the FCC decisions and completely read them as they get released."
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This intrigued me, so I contacted Bender personally to ask him for more details on his thoughts on this. The Bob & Tom show airs in 150+ markets and has only been fined once, for $7,000 because of a complaint about a "Head Shampoo" skit that aired on KROR in Hastings, Nebraska on February 26, 1999. The skit aired on all of the Bob & Tom affiliates, but the complaint only came against KROR, and the FCC decided (that time) to fine only that station.
Bender wrote me back today, and here's what he sent (unedited in its entirety):
From: Marty Bender
Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 4:07 PM
To: Lou Pickney
Subject: RE: All Access interview
My answer had to do with what the Commission has been actually been doing with what they inherited.
It is their job to enforce a highly interpretive set of general/vague guidelines during a technology explosion that 100 years from now will be recognized as historically significant.
The decisions (right or wrong) over the past year have been just varied enough to supply at least various points of reference. Example: just this week they addressed artistic merit and contextual consideration among other things.
Is it clear....no
Is it clearer...kinda.
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