It's not accurate to say it's actually true, but it's apparent.
Another Freeper said that moving to a subscription based network will be his downfall, simply because there is no envelope to push where he's going and that's all he does. He was fined far more in the 90's by the previous admin.
Stern hasn't pushed boundaries in years. He's done the same show for years.
He will not suffer from the move in the least.
Yeah he was fined.
Fining syndicates is a new idea by this FCC.
With the ability to Packet Type and ID data over the air the FCC is quickly becomming a meaningless Beauracracy that is now struggling to survive. The public resource of the airwaves is quickly becomming a limitless resource not a shared public resource it once was that needs the regulation of the feds. There recent measures and actions are no more than efforts to find a problem to solve. Just wait until they propose controlling pay to view/listen content... oh wait they already have. Powell would do himself well by setting out the elegant steps to the end of the FCC rather than engage in these Death Throws Antics.
One thing you can trust in though is you can never kill a beauracracy.
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-- jrawk
So, nepotism is the sole reason for Stern's fines? What a lame personal attack! It's precisely what the left says of George W. Bush, and yet it completely discounts the difficulty in becoming elected.
Sounds as though Michael Powell did an excellent job countering Howard Stern, especially his point being that the fines can be contested in a court of law.