Too gay for TV: Is the FCC coming after Adam Lambert?
”Yes, sadly friends, ABC has cancelled my appearances on Kimmel and NYE. :( don’t blame them. It’s the FCC heat.”
Twitter post from Adam Lambert, apparently telling fans that he was dropped as a performer from two late-night TV appearances on the ABC TV network — “Jimmy Kimmel Live” talk show, and the “New Year’s Eve” special. It’s not clear yet what he means by referencing the Federal Communications Commission, the governmental body that monitors broadcast content and has issued fines for indecent material in the past, in a rather arbitrary manner. Millions in fines have been levied against broadcast corporations for performances like Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake‘s televised dance at the Superbowl, and radio talk show host Howard Stern‘s funny but sexually explicit banter. An anti-gay legal advocacy group, Liberty Counsel, claims to have filed a complaint to the FCC already, though the performance was well after 10pm when the FCC assumes that the viewing audience is mostly adults. Liberty Counsel claims it aired in Texas before 10pm. (Twitter)
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