PTC Challenges Salt Lake City TV License

PTC CHALLENGES KUTV LICENSE
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Utah chapter of the Parents Television Council has filed a petition to deny the license of CBS-owned KUTV Salt Lake City. Its offense? Airing an episode of Without a Trace featuring a "teen orgy party." The FCC has already proposed fining the station and others for airing the show but PTC points out that CBS is fighting indecency fines, specifically the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident that PTC and the teen orgy fine. The choice of KUTV is twofold at least. It is a CBS-owned station and CBS, points out PTC, continues to challenge indecency rulings, and it is in Utah, where the episode’s airing is ‘probably more demonstrably in violation of community standards," says PTC spokesman Dan Issett. In announcing the move, PTC pointed out that "26 local governments from all over Utah have passed resolutions calling on their citizens and businesses, and all public and private institutions, to adopt family-friendly and child-appropriate standards."
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