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Rest of Indiana Purdue and Learfield Hoping FCC Wasn't Listening?

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I know Purdue/Learfield radio broadcasts of football/basketball are on at least a 30 second delay as the
audio is always behind the LiveStats and "live" TV. Yesterday, someone didn't catch an F-bomb from a
Purdue player during a "live" post-game interview (Purdue player excited over the unexpected win). I
wasn't sure if I "heard what I thought" until Rob Blackmon apologized immediately after the interview.
Lucky for Purdue/Learfield, there appears to be FCC precedent for "forgiving" broadcasters in such single
occurences, especially in sports. For example, Mikaela Shiffrin used an F-bomb during an Olympic
Today Show interview, and the hosts joked about "paying the fine", but nothing came of it (so far).
 
From what I understand, if an unplanned F-bomb or equivalent is surprisingly dropped during a live event (news or sports) or interview, it's not the end of the world. Document it, then move on.

Unless the FCC gets a bunch of complaints, or it's very high-profile (i.e. Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction), then nothing typically happens if it was beyond the station's control.
 
fybush said:
It's 2026. Every other medium that people consume uses all of those words. Why are we still clutching our pearls about this?
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Because there is a whole sector of the U.S. population that believes that the F-bomb should not be used over the air, no matter what the rules for cable and the Internet are. Yes, that sector is aging, but some of these people do have a lot of money and power.
 
fybush said:
It's 2026. Every other medium that people consume uses all of those words. Why are we still clutching our pearls about this?
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For the same reason people flip their shit at unintentionally televised wardrobe malfunctions, but rubberneck numbly at piles of dead human beings all over the evening news. American culture long ago established that True Evil™ lies in the body parts and words associated with creating life, not in the callousness and commonality of terminating it.

It's the complete opposite in Europe. They can have full frontal nudity on broadcast television, but anything violent is edited out. (Contrast that with the states, where people once threw a fit when Steven Spielberg decided to CG the guns out of an E.T. scene and replace them with walkie talkies.)
 


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