Fox Television calls TV regulators' indecency rules `radical'.

(From AP Worldstream)

Byline: JOHN DUNBAR

The government is violating the First Amendment right to free speech by embarking on a "radical reinterpretation and expansion" of its power to punish broadcasters for indecent speech, a federal court was told Wednesday by Fox Television Stations Inc.

Fox, CBS Broadcasting Inc., NBC Universal Inc. and NBC Telemundo License Co. are suing the Federal Communications Commission, challenging the agency for punishing the airing of shows that contain profanity. Fox filed formal arguments in a federal appeals court in New York. Later in the day, CBS and NBC also filed briefs.

The New York case is …