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November 18, 2004

Are you ready for some football?

Both the Kerry Spot and Buzzmachine have interesting takes on the Mondy Night Football episode earlier this week. Jim Geraghty at the Kerry Spot points out the obvious: When I'm watching a football game, I want to watch the football game.

I felt the same way when watching the world series two years ago. There were constant promos of Fox actors for that show about a pr0n producer that was cancelled after about three episodes. I suspect Fox may have spent more time promoting the show than it did actually airing it. It really detracting from the experience of watching the games. How hard is that for the networks to understand? I watched a lot less of the world series this year.

Jarvis at Buzzmachine thinks this is much ado about nothing and that networks should be allowed to broadcast without FCC restrictions on content. I asked him if he thought this should include full frontal nudity and explicit sex scenes and he not responded to my question yet. I think you can make a well reasoned case that the FCC should allow these things to be broadcast, but if we eliminate FCC regulation of all content as Jarvis advocates having full nudity on broadcast TV is a likely eventual result of the deregulation and he needs to be honest about that.

Posted by Pete at November 18, 2004 11:05 AM

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Posted by: chris at November 19, 2004 11:01 AM