Chances are good that the National Assn. of Broadcasters will attempt to forge a voluntary code of conduct in the next few months.
WASHINGTON—Chances are good that the National Assn. of Broadcasters will attempt to forge a voluntary code of conduct in the next few months.Such a code would keep the Federal Communications Commission from creating its own code to regulate broadcast-only programming that it deems profane, indecent or obscene.
FCC chairman Michael Powell gave NAB officials the green light on a self-imposed conduct code at a March 31 meeting. Federal lawmakers have also pushed for a new code.
This would be the second code of conduct for NAB. The first, in place for three decades, was knocked down on anti-trust grounds during the Reagan Administration in the 1980s.