NFL, TV Execs To Testify On Capitol Hill

The Associated Press reports a House panel looking into indecency on the airwaves was hearing Wednesday from National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and Mel Karmazin, president of Viacom Inc. – owner of both CBS, which aired Janet Jackson’s breast-baring Super Bowl halftime show, and MTV, which produced the show. All five members of the Federal Communications Commission also were expected to testify before the House Energy and Commerce telecommunications subcommittee and at a separate hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee. “CBS gave everyone on the FCC, everyone in Congress, every parents’ organization, every parent a slap in the face and said, ‘Go to hell,’” said L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Parents Television Council, a conservative advocacy group.