US broadcasters have been under pressure to clean up the airwaves since Janet Jackson's breast exposure during a dance routine at the 2004 Super Bowl.
Hefty rise in US indecency fines
US broadcasters transmitting indecent material face a tenfold increase in maximum fines, to $325,000 per violation, under new legislation.
President George Bush, signing the law, said, "This law will ensure that broadcasters take seriously their duty to keep the public airwaves free of obscene, profane and indecent material."
[The FCC defines indecency as "language or material that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory organs or activities."]
Stones songs censored
The Rolling Stones were censored during their halftime performance at the Super Bowl XL in Detroit this year.
TV censors deemed two lyrics (from Start Me Up and Rough Justice) too sexually explicit to be broadcast and they were cut from the three-song show.
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