After years of unclear rulings concerning various curse words, sexual innuendo, cartoon and non-cartoon butt and boob exposure, etc, the FCC may actually be forced to clarify the term "indecent." The current definition of an indecent broadcast, according to the FCC is anything "patently offensive" that describes or depicts "sexual or excretory organs or activities."
The 2 cases likely to hit the courts include Bono's utterance of the word "fucking" during the 2003 Golden Globe Award show (aired on NBC) and the episode of "Married by America" that aired a pixillated segment where men in underwear were slapped by strippers and whipped cream was licked off the chest of a woman (on Fox).
In the Bono case, NBC was not fined for the broadcast, but the FCC issued a reprimand stating that the word would no longer be tolerated, when in the past nonsexual uses of the word "fuck" had been overlooked. Directly contradicting this decision, ABC's broadcast of "Saving Private Ryan," which contained 21 instances of the word "fuck," did not come under fire. Fox, on the other hand, was slapped with the single largest indecency fine ever (1.2 million dollars) for the suspect episode of "Married by America."