respondent Fox Television Stations, Inc., the singer Cher

exclaimed during an unscripted acceptance speech: “I’ve

also had my critics for the last 40 years saying that I was

on my way out every year. Right. So f*** ‘em.” 613 F. 3d,

at 323. Second, Fox broadcast the Billboard Music Awards

again in 2003. There, a person named Nicole Richie

made the following unscripted remark while presenting an

award: “Have you ever tried to get cow s*** out of a Prada

purse? It’s not so f***ing simple.” Ibid. The third in­

cident involved an episode of NYPD Blue, a regular tele­

vision show broadcast by respondent ABC Television

Network. The episode broadcast on February 25, 2003,

showed the nude buttocks of an adult female character for

approximately seven seconds and for a moment the side

of her breast. During the scene, in which the character

was preparing to take a shower, a child portraying her boy­

friend’s son entered the bathroom. A moment of awk­

wardness followed. 404 Fed. Appx. 530, 533–534 (CA2

2011). The Commission received indecency complaints

about all three broadcasts.

After these incidents, but before the Commission issued

Notices of Apparent Liability to Fox and ABC, the Com­

mission issued a decision sanctioning NBC for a comment

made by the singer Bono during the 2003 Golden Globe

Awards. Upon winning the award for Best Original Song,

Bono exclaimed: “‘This is really, really, f***ing brilliant.

Really, really great.’”

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