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NEWS: Sci Fi to Air Ghost in the Shell's Solid State Society, Noein, Tokko

The FCC doesn't regulate cable; Nagisa was referring to the channel's own standards which have little or nothing to do with other channel's standards.

The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 as the successor to the Federal Radio Commission and is charged with regulating all non-Federal Government use of the radio spectrum (including radio and television broadcasting), and all interstate telecommunications (wire, satellite and cable) as well as all international communications that originate or terminate in the United States.

Comedy Central shows completly unedited comedy. Even using George Carlin's favorite seven words.

Also I can't believe there going to have Solid State Society a month before the DVD! Good job Sci-fi, your actually airing something I care about, and not just old wrestling federation..

I'm not sure about this selection. With this line-up Sci Fi definitely won't get Full Metal Alchemist/Naruto ratings. Ghost in the Shell SSS is going to be the biggest ratings grabber and if I'm not mistaken, that movie's series on AS wasn't spectaculary popular either. Macross has been repeated eternally on Encore Action. And Noein and Tokko are relatively unpopular. If they want to compete against Bleach level ratings, they will have to do better than this.

Actually the FCC does regulate cable,

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The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 as the successor to the Federal Radio Commission and is charged with regulating all non-Federal Government use of the radio spectrum (including radio and television broadcasting), and all interstate telecommunications (wire, satellite and cable) as well as all international communications that originate or terminate in the United States.

Cable outlets, such as Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, are not governed by the FCC and generally do much less editing. How much is usually determined by the outlet's standards and practices department.

* Indecency and obscenity. Generally, the rules concerning the content of programming on cable channels are not as strict as the rules concerning programming content on non-cable channels.

varmintx wrote:

The FCC doesn't regulate cable; Nagisa was referring to the channel's own standards which have little or nothing to do with other channel's standards.

Actually the FCC does regulate cable,

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The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 as the successor to the Federal Radio Commission and is charged with regulating all non-Federal Government use of the radio spectrum (including radio and television broadcasting), and all interstate telecommunications (wire, satellite and cable) as well as all international communications that originate or terminate in the United States.

Do the FCC's rules apply to cable and satellite programming? In the past, the FCC has enforced the indecency and profanity prohibitions only against conventional broadcast services, not against subscription programming services such as cable and satellite. However, the prohibition against obscene programming applies to subscription programming services at all times.

What makes material “obscene?” Obscene speech is not protected by the First Amendment and broadcasters are prohibited, by statute and regulation, from airing obscene programming at any time. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, to be obscene, material must meet a three-prong test: (1) an average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest (i.e., material having a tendency to excite lustful thoughts); (2) the material must depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable law; and (3) the material, taken as a whole, must lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. The Supreme Court has indicated that this test is designed to cover hard-core pornography.

Allow me to elaborate. Starting off with SSS is a good move. However, the anime line-up lacks a heavy hitter. What they need is at least one series on the same level of popularity as AS heavy hitters. Something as popular as Full Metal Alchemist, Bleach, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop. The Sci Fi line-up lacks star power. Death Note or Code Geass would have been perfect. These series have built up hype online over the year. After you have your heavy hitter, back it up with something like Phantom Memory Kurau, Noien, or any Gundam series, and AS would have a serious fight on their hands.

RogueJedi86 wrote:

I still have faith in Sci-Fi Channel. I saw my first anime on there too. "Armitage 3: Poly-Matrix".

I always thought it was pronounced Armitage: Third Thats why I always use III. But I am probably wrong on that.

"Armitage III: Poly-Matrix," and the second movie (which I've owned for like 5 years and still haven't watched yet ) is "Armitage: Dual-Matrix" (without the "III").

I think it's a pretty good start. There's always the possibly that more shows might be added, it probably just depends on how well this test block does.

MasterYeshua wrote:

Allow me to elaborate. Starting off with SSS is a good move. However, the anime line-up lacks a heavy hitter. What they need is at least one series on the same level of popularity as AS heavy hitters. Something as popular as Full Metal Alchemist, Bleach, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop. The Sci Fi line-up lacks star power. Death Note or Code Geass would have been perfect. These series have built up hype online over the year. After you have your heavy hitter, back it up with something like Phantom Memory Kurau, Noien, or any Gundam series, and AS would have a serious fight on their hands.

I don't see why Toka and Noein aren't big hitters sure there not CB, Trigun, etc....but that's because they haven't had a chance to air yet. The respond to Noein has been pretty good, if not excellent (check out it's Median rating) and Tokko isn't as highly rated but it's still has a good rating. And honestly I hadn't heard of Tokko until it was announced by Manga so I am excited to see this series. So those are big hitters, unaired anime (in the US) and you support that with a vast amount of movies and OVA, I think it's a pretty good start. There's always the possibly that more shows might be added, it probably just depends on how well this test block does.