The number of consumer complaints about broadcast indecency, as well as interference, is dropping. The FCC received 1,520 indecency/obscenity complaints for 2013 and 2,181 in 2012.

The FCC is hearing far fewer complaints about radio and TV these days. The number of radio and TV complaints dropped from 157,650 in the first quarter to 6,429 in the second quarter. These figures include general complaints and indecency complaints. The figures are in its quarterly report on consumer complaints a

TV and radio broadcasting generated a total of 520,330 complaints over indecent or obscene programming last year, according to figures from the FCC.

In the first quarter of 2004, the FCC received a total of 693,080 indecency/obscenity complaints for TV and radio. That compares to 146,403 such complaints in the previous quarter, when the public was first able to e-mail complaints to the agency. The bulk of those in the first quarter came in February--after Janet Ja

Most complaints concern digital TV transition, general programming

The FCC denied a complaint by the Parents Television Council (PTC) that accused Fox stations and others for airing indecent material during an episode of the sitcom "Arrested Development." "There are multiple scripted bleeps, and some sexual innuendo dealing with homosexuality," according to the complaint, however, t

From the first to second quarter of last year informal consumer complaints filed with the commission over broadcast obscenity and indecency dropped by more than 145,000.