![]() ![]() Among the enhancements: a small- and medium- market qualitative service that's currently being tested in five markets. Infinity To FCC: Get Off Our Back Brands Commission's `selective enforcement' unconstitutional Call it the "Charlie Brown" defense. Infinity Broadcast - ing's lengthy response to a proposed $500,000 FCC indecency tine can be summed up by the '59 Coasters classic's catch - phrase: "Why's everybody always picking on me'" In its reply, Infinity complains that while its stations face heavy fines for airing allegedly inde- cent segments of Howard Stern's show, several) other stations that broadcast the exact same segments were not cited. ![]() `Clearly Unconstitutional' "On the basis of a complaint that specifically identifies Infinity, Greater Media, Evergreen, and multiple other licensees as outlets for Stern show material on the same dates, the Commission has selectively pursued enforcement action against Infinity," the company says. Such targeted enforcement, Infinity contends, is "clearly unconstitutional" Infinity further complains that the FCC has publicly branded it "an egregious, repeat iindecen- cyi offender" on the basis of two still- unresolved indecency proceedings. In contrast- the agency has not characterized Greater Media or Evergreen as repeat INFINITY /See Westcott On Stern's Case Again ongtime Howard Stem nemesis Al Westcott is at it again the Las Vegas resident has filed yet another detailed indecency complaint with the FCC. ![]()
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