“This agreement should be a wake up call to all those in the entertainment industry who think outrageousness is a clever marketing strategy. The law establishes set boundaries that cannot be crossed to protect our community’s health and safety." [Link]Meanwhile, the FCC has hired as an advisor an anti-indecency crusader. Gotta tell you: I'd rather have Eliot handling radio regulation.
Monday, August 08, 2005
Spitzer rolls on.
Eliot Spitzer has fined WQHT--New York's "Hot 97" hip hop powerhouse--$240,000 for throwing a "Smackfest," basically a fighting contest. Says Spitzer:
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I attended the Radio and Records convention in LA two years ago, where during one of the sessions they played the smackfest video. The audience howled with delight as the video showed two female african american radio contestants smacking each other harder and harder in a New York radio studio. I was aghast. Firstly, it was entirely visual with lots of dead air, which is not good radio. And most importantly, it made the stomach turn. I couldn't believe this crowd of half-brains were elevating this display as a testiment to great radio. I got up and walked out in disgust, half expecting others to join me as a protest to the violence. They did not. The 'smackfest' was the talk of the convention. A new low for American terrestrial radio. I think that was the moment when I began to regard myself as a media person as opposed to a radio person.
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