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  This is a formal COMPLAINT of indecency on broadcast television. NETWORK: ABC-TV PROGRAM TITLE: Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event BROADCAST DATES: July 2, 2005 BROADCAST TIMES: 8:00 PM Eastern & Pacific/7:00 PM Central & Mountain Time Documentation of the material on which my COMPLAINT is based is provided below. Video tapes of "Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event" are available from the Parents Television Council. COMPLAINANT believes that this synopsis of content on "Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event" on July 2, 2005 is in context and fully representative of the show's overall tone and quality, which the FCC must declare is indecent. COMPLAINANT also believes that such material is: (a.) Clearly offensive according to the standards of my community; COMPLAINANT urges the Commission to take notice of the high ratings for this broadcast of "Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event" ratings -- reportedly viewed by some nearly three million people. Given its relatively early broadcast time, it was without question viewed by hundreds of thousands of children. Finally, COMPLAINANT urges the Commission to note that "Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event" was aired on a tape delay, which should have given ABC ample time to edit the concert for broadcast. Therefore, the stations which broadcast the show had ample time to evaluate its content and should have been on notice as to its potential to run afoul of community standards of decency. Accordingly, COMPLAINANT urges the Commission to sanction all ABC affiliated and owned stations which broadcast the July 2, 2005 "Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event" with the unedited language. Furthermore, COMPLAINTANT hereby requests that the FCC investigate whether the program was broadcast with the unedited language throughout the country. Documentation -------------- During The Who's performance of "Who Are You" a line in the chorus "who the fuck are you" was aired unedited. Even more troubling is the fact that the program was aired on a tape delay, which should have given ABC ample time to edit the concert for broadcast. Documentation -------------- For the reasons above stated, the FCC should exercise its responsibility to enforce the existing law against indecency on broadcast TV between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. (Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 1464) by levying severe sanctions against the broadcasters of this program. PLEASE KEEP ME INFORMED OF THE PROGRESS AND RESULTS OF YOUR INVESTIGATION INTO THIS MATTER. Sincerely,