Some say that talk radio will simply go to Sat Radio. Is that not governed by the FCC also?
“Satellite radio broadcasting was first authorized in 1997, when two licenses were issued to the companies now known as XM and Sirius. Their applications had taken seven years for the Federal Communications Commission to approve, mainly because the National Association of Broadcasters charged that the new service threatened “traditional American values of community cohesion and local identity.” (It also threatened revenues....” - http://www.slate.com/id/2097247/
Adam Thierer of The Cato Institute, in an article entitled, “Should Government Censor Speech on Cable and Satellite TV?” writes:
Subscription-based media providers have not faced such regulatory scrutiny in the past because they are not licensed by the FCC and, therefore, receive strict First Amendment protection.
The same applies to satellite radio like XM or SIRIUS
HOWEVER, hierer also writes:
An important and troubling shift may be developing regarding the way lawmakers regulate mass media in the United States. During recent congressional hearings on broadcast television and radio violations of Federal Communications Commission indecency standards, several lawmakers hinted that they believed federal censorship efforts should extend beyond licensed TV and radio operators to unlicensed media sources, such as cable, satellite, and Internet providers. And a debate is about to take place on the Senate floor during which some lawmakers have said they will attempt to apply indecency regulations on such subscription-based services. http://radio.about.com/od/createinternetradio/a/aa061404a.htm
I do agree that porn and the like should be censored, but the problem is that the liberal consider opinions and fact to be a form if ideoligical porn that must be silenced. And the stream that satellite radio offers does not orginate in the satellite.