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Question about obscene content or cursing on the air.

This just occurred to me: Kids movies are like board games. They start out with Uncle Wiggly and Chutes and Ladders. By--I dunno, six, seven?---when they can read---they move on to LIFE and Monopoly. By 10 or so, they're ready for RISK. At some point, they'll end up on the computer playing Grand Theft Auto and you hope that by then they know that you disapprove of the hooker's body in the trunk.
 
firepoint525 said:
The Beatles' Get Back project has a disclaimer about, of all things, smoking on it! Oh, the horror!

I just thought about that, since it is a Disney production.
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The TV ratings are actually very specific---Disney was simply following them. Smoking factors into theatrical ratings, too: https://variety.com/2018/politics/news/charles-rivkin-smoking-mpaa-1202855426/

My wife and I were watching some series on one of the cable channels and each episode would be TV-14 or TV-MA, but it would have a different set of reasons for the ratings in each episode. "Oh, tonight we get intense violence and nudity!" "Ah, they've moved on to language, drug use and sexual activity".

The show was about lawyers. Go figure.
 
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Kelly A said:
Back in the 70's and 80's there was what amounted to a PAC of 'Christian' followers of Anita Bryant' anti-LGBTQ teachings, that would flood the Commission with form letters, complaining about a particular network TV or radio show. The group was estimated into the hundreds of thousands in number. When E-mail became even more popular in the 90's, the followers moved to flooding the Commission and Congress-members with E-mail's. They continued even past Ms. Bryant's death.
As with most government agencies, if you want to get the attention of the Commission, get the attention of a member of Congress first. They hold the purse strings for the other agencies.
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for what it's worth Anita Bryant is still alive.
 
michael hagerty said:
And wow---the board software censored it when I wrote "MF"---which it will probably censor again, so let's just say "FM" backwards.

(let me know when you're ready to go back to talking about fast food, Frank.)
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Maybe, you just have to bury it with additional letters, like burying an ID. How do you feel about "LSMFT"? :) On second thought,, cigarette advertising is illegal!
 
semoochie said:
Maybe, you just have to bury it with additional letters, like burying an ID. How do you feel about "LSMFT"?
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Search gets "Liposclerosing myxofibrous tumors " and "Lord Save Me From Trump".

You have to dig to find "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco".
 
The bigger question here is how stations can get away with questionable material but staying within the limits of legality. The answer is “because they can”. Smart programmers have been doing this for decades. You quickly learn what you can and can’t say. I don’t think the bar has moved much, and probably won’t much in future years.
 
seatownmedia said:
The bigger question here is how stations can get away with questionable material but staying within the limits of legality. The answer is “because they can”. Smart programmers have been doing this for decades. You quickly learn what you can and can’t say. I don’t think the bar has moved much, and probably won’t much in future years.
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If anything, it’s moved backwards as licensees have become more risk-averse. Music stations that used to play the unedited versions of songs like “Money”, “Jet Airliner” and “Who Are You” now largely play the edits.

In the late mid-90’s, when he was local on KFI, Phil Hendrie went through a phase where he used the word “a**hole” a lot. In fact, Bill Handel, in morning drive, occasionally played Dennis Leary’s track by that name, with no edits. I’m fairly confident you can’t say that on KFI today without being bleeped.
 
michael hagerty said:
And it's been 51 years, two months and a week since the last TV commercial for cigarettes. And Luckies weren't sold in the U.S. between 2006 and just over a year ago. Advertising is ephemera.
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I used to live near where Lucky Strike was on all the water tanks in town. They replaced it with Pall Mall and other brands.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I used to live near where Lucky Strike was on all the water tanks in town. They replaced it with Pall Mall and other brands.
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michael hagerty said:
And it's been 51 years, two months and a week since the last TV commercial for cigarettes. And Luckies weren't sold in the U.S. between 2006 and just over a year ago. Advertising is ephemera.
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I still remember when cigarette machines were EVERYWHERE! And of course, a cigarette machine couldn't ask for an ID! As long as you had the money for a pack of ciggies, and fed it into the machine, it would spit out a pack for you!
 
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