WRAL censors Dave Chappelle's 'SNL' performance

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A local North Carolina TV station didn’t think much of Dave Chappelle’s vocabulary on last night’s highly-rated Saturday Night Live, and its viewers didn’t get a chance to think about them at all. NBC affiliate WRAL-TV, serving the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill market, bleeped Chappelle repeatedly during his opening monologue and other sketches, including the very funny Walking Dead parody.

“WRAL-TV has a station obscenity, decency and profanity policy that outlines 10 specific words that will not be broadcast on our air,” said Steven D. Hammel, vice president & general manager at WRAL, in a statement today. “This policy is based on our own standards in combination with FCC guidelines. Our broadcast operators have a 10-second delay button they can choose to use. During Saturday Night Live on NBC, guest host Dave Chappelle used 2 of those words on 9 different occasions and they were silenced. Obviously, SNL is a live show so we had no prior indication about what would be said during the broadcast. We understand this caused disruption during the program. We wanted our audience to know this was a station decision, not the network’s, and why we made that choice.”

https://deadline.com/2016/11/snl-censorship-dave-chappelle-wral-1201853752/

Dave Chappelle monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--IS0XiNdpk
Walking Dead sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG0wQRsXLi4

 

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Profanity on SNL

http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/tv/warm-tv-blog/article114508293.html

WRAL-TV in Raleigh NC, known for its conservative editorials by the future senator Jesse Helms, put SNL on a 10-second delay Nov. 12. WCNC-TV in Charlotte aired every word.

It has surprised me that even at 11:30 (with censoring to take place if a rerun or clips air in prime time, I'm sure) none of the forbidden words were used. And yet they were this past Saturday. The rating was still TV-14, though there was an unexplained V. I have a theory that it doesn't take as much content of a certain type to warrant including that content if a different type of content is so bad that it might justify moving up to a higher V-chip rating. Actually, there was sexual content which would have justified an S. but the "violence" was Kenan pouring liquid into his eyes from a bottle marked "bleach" (don't want people to imitate?) and shooting a gun. Not even really worth mentioning. Adults breast-feeding under a blanket seems like it would fall under "S" but I'm not sure.