keep your fingers crossed

this is a promising step. i don't have my hopes TOO high, but it is rather good news for now

(to all of the id-ijts that wrote letters of complaint, all three of them that is, GET AN EFFING LIFE. turn your television OFF if it is SO EFFING OFFENSIVE TO YOU)

Court stays FCC ruling on TV profanity

By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday put on hold a Federal Communications Commission ruling that four television broadcasts of profanity violated decency standards and gave the agency two months to consider rebuttals by the broadcasters.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit stayed enforcement of the agency's March decision that profanities uttered on ABC's "NYPD Blue," CBS's "The Early Show" and the 2002 and 2003 Billboard music awards shows on Fox were indecent. The FCC did not propose any fines for the incidents.
The shows included variations of "s---" and "f---." The FCC based its decision on a 2004 FCC ruling that the fleeting use of the word "f---ing" by U2 rock singer Bono during the 2003 Golden Globe Awards was indecent.
The four major television networks -- ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC -- and their affiliate associations in April joined forces to ask an appeals court in New York to throw out the FCC's ruling as unconstitutional, arbitrary and capricious.
The appeals court stayed the decision "which applies the standards announced in the Golden Globe Order" and also granted the FCC's request for the case back for 60 days.
The FCC acknowledged that it failed to give the networks an opportunity to respond to its findings that the shows violated decency standards and asked the court to give it time to consider their arguments.
U.S. regulations bar radio and television broadcast stations from airing obscene material. The rules limit broadcasters to airing indecent material, such as profanity and sexually explicit content, during late-night hours when children are less likely to be in the audience. ........