Copps: Keep Pressuring Cable on Indecency

[SOURCE: MediaWeek, AUTHOR: Todd Shields]
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said Washington needs to keep pushing the cable industry on indecent programming, even as major cable companies roll out programming packages designed to be inoffensive. "Trust but verify," Commissioner Copps said of the cable companies' plans announced Monday. "I don't think we're anywhere near the point where we say, 'We don't need legislation.'"
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001659367

* Copps: What’s a Family Tier?
At his reconfirmation hearing Tuesday, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said: "We've got to define what a family tier is. We've got to figure to our how much it’s going to cost. We’re not there yet. We got a long way to go."
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6291136.html?display=Breaking+News
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* ‘Family Tier’ TV Plan Faces Questions
http://www.njtelecomupdate.com/lenya/telco/live/tb-WXMO1134511411487.html

* FCC Member Urges Bill to Curtail Cable Indecency
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-decency14dec14,1,1252352.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business
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* Letting Hollywood into the home
Christian Science Monitor editorial in favor of a la carte cable pricing.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1214/p08s02-comv.html