Married by America was a show on television which aired in the United States on the Fox Network in the spring of 2003. The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... For other uses, see Spring. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The premise of the show was simple: a variety of contestants were introduced on the air, then viewers could call in and vote for certain candidates. The top male and female vote-getters could then be married on live television. In the end, none of the couples got married. This article is about the Male sex. ... For other uses, see Female (disambiguation). ... Matrimony redirects here. ... Live television refers to television broadcasts of events or performances on a delay of between zero and fifteen seconds, rather than from video recordings or film. ...
The show was controversial when Fox aired it; many observers thought that it was degrading to both the participants and to the general notion of marriage. Fox defended its programming decision and there was no great outcry, probably because very few people watched the show, in spite of a premiere which aired after an episode of American Idol. For the current American Idol season, see American Idol (season 7). ...
Over a year after the show's cancellation, the FCC fined Fox a record $1.2 million due to an episode which featured pixilated strippers [1]and a woman licking whipped cream off a man's nipple. The ruling underwent great scrutiny when blogger Jeff Jarvisuncovered that although the FCC originally claimed to have received 159 complaints, it later admitted to only receiving 90, which came from only 23 people. Jarvis studied the complaints and realized that all but 2 were virtually identical to each other, meaning that the $1.2 million judgment was based on original complaints written by a total of only three people. Armed with the new information, Fox promised to fight the fine. FCC redirects here. ... Jeff Jarvis (born 1954) is an American journalist. ...
Married by America was a show on television which aired in the United States on the Fox Network in the spring of 2003.
The top male and female vote-getters could then be married on live television.
The show was controversial when Fox aired it; many observers thought that it was degrading to both the participants and to the general notion of marriage.
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