The settlement wipes the slate clean for Clear Channel, which, after dumping Stern, instituted a zero-tolerance policy for on-air indecency and has sent more than 6,500 radio programmers and on-air talent through "responsible broadcaster" training.
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n the past, the FCC has fined broadcasters for each show in which any number of indecency violations may have occurred -- a maximum of $27,500 per show. But the FCC has said in recent months that it would begin fining broadcasters per utterance of indecent material, meaning one show could receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. The $495,000 fine against Stern's show was the first issued on a per-utterance basis.

Further, two bills in Congress would muscle up the FCC's fining ability, allowing it to charge broadcasters up to $275,000 per violation.