...mean the deliberate broadcast of "language that describes, in terms patently offensive by contemporary standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory...there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience." The FCC said that the court specifically stated that it was not ruling that "an occasional...

...indecent would remain the sanV', ie, language that describes in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast...medium, sexual or excretory activities and organs. However, we would also consider whether the material "has serious literary, artistic, political or...

...with the exposure of children to language that describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast...there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience.5 Obnoxious, gutter language describing these matters has the effect of debasing and brutalizing...

...longer than a brief interval, of "language that describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast...medium, sexual or excretory activities and organs." 56 FCC 2d, at 98. For surely broadcasters are not now on notice that the Commission desires to regulate...

...indecent would remain the same, ie, language that describes in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast...medium, sexual or excretory activities and organs. However, we would also consider whether the material has serious literary, artistic, political or scientific...

...value. To the FCC, indecency is "language that describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory activities and organs."1*2 The Commission interpreted this definition as being sufficiently broad to encompass not...

...indecent would remain the same, ie, language that describes in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast...medium, sexual or excretory activities and organs. However, we would also consider whether the material has serious literary, artistic, political or scientific...

...with the exposure of children to language that describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast...there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience." Indeed, the Court emphasized, at page 743, "At most, however, the Commission's definition...

...material is "indecent," ie, if it depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast...medium, sexual or excretory activities and organs. See FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 US 726, 739 (1978). Broadcast of indecent material is actionable...

...Circuit has upheld the Commission's authority to restrict the broadcast of indecent material at times of day when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience. Action for Children's Television v. FCC, 852 F.2d 1332 (DC Cir. 1988). It appears that the...