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Nudity may cost ABC $1.4 million - Los Angeles Times

Stroll on a beach in Southern California, and there's a fair chance you'll glimpse girl glutes girded only by g-strings.  Feature the same female fundament, fully fabric-free, on a film-five-years -ago NYPD BLUE episode, and the FCC will fine you filthy lucre that would fairly fill a footlocker.  Specifically,  ABC and its affiliates have been mulcted (look it up) more than a million for displaying a 2003 NB episode in which a boy (and the audience) sees a woman's towel-less tuchus.  Actually, only affiliates in central and mountain zones are being fined -- eastern and pacific stations showed it after 10 pm, a difference that apparently allows all the arses an affiliate  can access.

Alliteration aside, is there any connection between the end of NYPD BLUE and the rise of high-definition programming?  There's only so much a body-makeup artist can do . . . .

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