| Table 1 Indecency and other programming complaints since 2002 Source: FCC "Quarterly Inquiries and Complaint Reports" |
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | |
| 2002 | ||||||||||||
| "Indecency/Obscenity" | 45 | 36 | 161 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 35 | 30 | 28 | 39 | 41 | 17 |
| "General Criticism" | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 34 | 9 | 14 |
| " Religious" | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| "Other programming issues" | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 15 | 15 |
| December 9th, 2002: Cher declares on the Billboard Music Awards that "People have been telling me I'm on the way out every year, right? So fuck 'em." | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | ||||||||||||
| "Indecency/Obscenity" | 24 | 46 | 54 | 47 | 62 | 242 | 5,552 | 8,876 | 5,492 | 28,206 | 41,075 | 76,987 |
| "General Criticism" | 22 | 23 | 36 | 42 | 19 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 34 | 34 | 19 | 45 |
| "Religious" | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| "Other programming issues" | 7 | 3 | 0 | 41 | 30 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 3 | |||
| January, 2003: Bono declares that "this is really, really fucking brilliant" during the televised Golden Globe Awards. December 10th, 2003: Nicole Richie says on the Billboard Music Awards that "Have you ever tried to get cow shit out of a Prada purse? It's not so fucking simple." | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | ||||||||||||
| "Indecency/Obscenity" | 119,271 | 543,255 | 30,554 | 270,287 | 1,696 | 835 | 949 | 922 | 119,817 | 119,785 | 190,805 | 7,243 |
| "General Criticism" | 18 | 23 | 24 | 23 | 45 | 26 | 72 | 90 | 81 | 38 | 66 | 109 |
| "Other programming issues" | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 73 | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| February 1st, 2004: Janet Jackson reveals right breast during dance routine with Justin Timberlake at Super Bowl XXXVIII. | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | ||||||||||||
| "Indecency/Obscenity" | 138,652 | 14,480 | 3,884 | 2,101 | 2,053 | 2,007 | 23,547 | 1,716 | 922 | 544 | 1,375 | 42,190 |
| "General Criticism" | 211 | 215 | 129 | 73 | 83 | 78 | 47 | 57 | 49 | 62 | 44 | 23 |
| "Other programming issues" | 25 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2006 | ||||||||||||
| "Indecency/Obscenity/Profanity" | 1,739 | 138,527 | 134,865 | 11,326 | 40,000 | 741 | 179 | 404 | 163,553 | 29,821 | 835 | 306 |
| "General Criticism" | 18 | 14 | 15 | 164 | 100 | 198 | 261 | 248 | 206 | 562 | 303 | 241 |
| Other programming issues" | 23 | 2 | 2 | 308 | 471 | 3 | 84 | 69 | 87 | 149 | 982 | 105 |
| 2007 | ||||||||||||
| "Indecency/Obscenity/Profanity" | 148,281 | 1000 | 176 | |||||||||
| "General Criticism" | 619 | 301 | 237 | |||||||||
| "Other programming issues" | 146 | 114 | 115 | |||||||||