Groups Seek Minimum Enforcement of TV Act:...

Groups Seek Minimum Enforcement of TV Act: Four media groups are seeking the “least restrictive” enforcement of a new law that limits the number of commercials during children’s television programs, saying the statute infringes on free speech rights. In a brief filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the groups contended that the Children’s Television Act of 1990 violates the First Amendment by assigning to the federal government the role of “dictating a portion of the programming of privately owned television stations.” The brief was filed by the Radio-Television News Directors Assn., the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Media Institute and the Society of Professional Journalists.