Fox says it won’t pay FCC fine

News Corp.’s Fox network says it won’t pay a $91,000 indecency fine imposed by the Federal Communications Commission for a 2003 broadcast featuring strippers at bachelor and bachelorette parties.

Fox is filing a petition on behalf of the 13 owned and affiliated television stations asking the agency to reconsider the fine, spokesman Scott Grogin said.

The April 7 program “Married by America” on News Corp.’s Fox network was “pandering and titillating,” the FCC said in an order posted on its website Feb. 22.

The FCC said at the time that the penalty would apply only to stations named in viewer complaints, rather than all Fox stations that aired the program.