When it comes to indecency on TV, Delaware County is pretty tolerant.
There were only 106 complaints to the FCC out of 565,328 residents between October 2014 and April 2024.
The largest number of complaints in the US went to Hot Spring County in rural Arkansas, which logged twice as many complaints (51 complaints per 10,000 residents) than anywhere else in the United States, writes Matthew Petti for Reason.
One job of the FCC is to find and end obscenity on the airwaves and it uses public feedback to track offenders down.
What is considered obscenity can sometimes get a little tricky.
Is it OK to show “Night of the Living Dead” on daytime television? How do you handle double entendres for “spotted dick” pudding?
Are burlesque dancers and a museum depicting nude paintings OK to show in a travel documentary on Paris?
Those situations were included in the complaints filed out of Hot Spring.
Standard complaints often involve cursing in rap songs and violent action movies, but there are unique complaints as well, like one about a documentary that showed an animal dissection.
See how other counties faired in our region and around the country for indecency complaints in Reason.
