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No time delay at KTSA?

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This morning on J R's show, a female caller, identifying herself as "an educated woman", which was quite ironic considering her vocabulary, used "BS" and "sh*t" in the course of her conversation. JR let the first fly without any comment, but the second one did draw a very casual warning, whereas if it had been any regular joe, I'm sure we would have been disconnected and banned from his show. Are radio stations required to have a time delay, in order to prevent colorful language from being broadcast, or has the "Janet Jackson edict" expired? Or are JR's frequent and favored callers allowed to use any type of language?
 
Although I last worked at a cluster with a talk station in '05, there was no FCC requirement that stations have a time delay. The policy we had was that we would just hang up if they either talked about something other than what they told the call screener or dropped some colorful monologue.
 
The feds don't need to get involved. The stations usually use their own zero tolerance policy as a opportunity to make personnel changes.
 
daypart said:
fredcantu said:
But we live in zero tolerance times.
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Do we anymore? I haven't heard of the current administration tackling a single indecency case.
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July 14, 2010 "In a sharp rebuke of the Bush-era crackdown on foul language on broadcast television and radio, a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down the government's near-zero-tolerance indecency policy as a violation of the 1st Amendment protection of free speech."

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/14/business/la-fi-fcc-indecency-20100714
 
If there is no FCC requirement for a time delay, is a radio or TV station, or its program host, responsible or open to sanctions for any foul language that gets out into the airwaves during their live program? What about those nationally syndicated shows? How do they prevent or deal with "that kind of caller"?
 
Nationally syndicated shows usually do use delays. Simply put, they know if a caller drops the "F" bomb on one of their shows, they'll lose a ton of affiliates, and they can't afford that.

As for foul language that gets out over the airwaves, the company usually has a policy to deal with that. I'm not aware of any FCC fine, at least not recently, sticking to a radio station for a "fleeting expletive" as it's known in the industry. I remember a case in Tampa a few years ago where the weatherman on a station had a few choice words after botching his voicetracked forecast. He, unfortunately, didn't record over it like he thought, and it went out over the air. He was terminated as was the jock on duty when the slip aired, even though she didn't know he had done this and was mortified herself when she heard it.
 
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