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[reelyreal]

and they made hundreds of millions of dollars off Stern, and the Super Bowl isn't exactly a loss leader. It was a cost of doing business for them.

Show me a company that doesn't mind losing a couple million dollars, and I'll show you a failing company. Every dollar counts, if you own one station or over a hundred. If a couple million didn't matter, why do people get laid off?

They haven't been "nailed" yet. Both cases are being appealed (IIRC, all the way to the Supreme Court) and CBS hasn't paid a dime on either of them.

Except for the cost of the suits. I'd say the threat of losing that money and the negative publicity is enough to be cautious.

 

[TravisWMLN]

I just play what the music log tells me to play ;D

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

I'd say the threat of losing that money and the negative publicity is enough to be cautious.

Appealing multi-million dollar fines to the Supreme Court is hardly a cautious move, especially with so much at stake...like, for example, the very real possibility that all content restrictions will be thrown out as constitutionally vague. That could leave the FCC with no power to enforce the laws against indecency (outside the "safe harbor" hours) or obscenity.

Besides, as large as those fines seem to us, they're a drop in the bucket to a company like CBS.