Fewer Indecency Complaints

This week, the FCC released statistics showing that the number of indecency complaints received by the Commission declined significantly during the last quarter of the year. In the first quarter of 2005, the Commission received 157,016 complaints about indecency. In the second quarter, the Commission received a mere 6,161.

This chart looks at the number of complaints received by the FCC about indecent or obscene programming on broadcast television and radio since the beginning of 2002, by quarter. The increase in complaints can be attributed to large-scale mobilized operations that have participants send form letters. The Commission notes that the data may include duplicate complaints.

Download: indecency_graph.pdf

In addition, during the second quarter of 2004, the Commission received 20 complaints about "Howard Stern Commentary."

Previously:

• And Now, Something Different (Videoblog about the "Arrested Development" complaint and ruling)
• FCC's Tyranny of the Minority?
• Complaining About Indecency
• The Indecency Front
• [FMC] Interview with FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein