The World: New York - CBS faces fine over 2004 Superbowl incident
CBS is paying a $550,000 fine as a result of Janet Jackson's controversial "costume malfunction" during the 2004 US Superbowl.
However, the broadcaster is only paying the fine as a pre-requisite for
legal action, and plans to challenge the Federal Communications
Commission's ruling that the breast-baring incident was "indecent".
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"We disagree strongly with the FCC's conclusions and will continue to
pursue all remedies necessary to affirm our legal rights," CBS said in a
statement.
The fine comes after several years of stepped-up indecency enforcement
by the FCC. Since 2003, the agency has proposed $12.3 million in
fines for broadcast indecency. In the eight years before that, total
proposed fines were less than $100,000 a year.
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