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The Commission proposed a forfeiture for the maximum statutory amount because of the egregious nature of the material, the involvement of many Infinity employees and managers in planning the marketing event, and Infinity’s recent history of the airing of indecent or apparently indecent broadcasts, including the Opie and Anthony Show, over Station WNEW-FM in November 2000 and January 2001.

The Commission based its action on more than 500 complaints regarding Infinity’s August 15, 2002, broadcast of an Infinity-hosted contest entitled “Sex for Sam,” which involved participants having sex in “risky locations” throughout New York City, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a zoo, Rockefeller Center, and a toy store.

The object of the contest was for each participating couple to earn the maximum number of points by having sex in as many of the places specified by the station as possible. The Commission concluded that the material in these broadcasts appeared to meet the Commission’s indecency definition. Specifically, the program material included repeated, graphic and explicit sexual descriptions designed to shock, pander and titillate listeners.

From an F.C.C. Press Release

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