Blue Green: ABC Pays for T&A, Then Files Appeal
ABC on Thursday ponied up $1,237,500 in fines assessed by the FCC for the 2003 broadcast of an
NYPD Blue episode in which for a fleeting instant, Charlotte Ross made us all forget about Eve Donovan's icky romance with Nick Corelli. (
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Warning: Nudity.) But this nude's story isn't over yet, folks. ABC merely paid its tab so that it can have its day in court. "While strongly opposed to the fines, ABC paid them in their entirety in order to make the FCC decision appealable," the network says in a statement cited by
Broadcasting & Cable. "ABC contends that the FCC order is arbitrary and capricious, contrary to the commission's own standards and past decisions and in violation of the indecency statute and the First Amendment."
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