Academy Awards "F-bomb" censored on ABC but not CTV?

True. CTV had no censorship. I assumed the same thing for ABC but all the news reports indicate that ABC bleeped it.

Articles stated ABC has a 7 second delay.

Ever since the Janet Jackson Super Bowl boob, most live events in the US have a delay (a few seconds) built in to allow censorship for sensitive American ears and eyes. I don't believe CTV has such a delay.

If you can view the programmes unsimsubbed, you can usually confirm the delay by switching between the Canadian and American Channels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_delay

ABC feed last night was delayed by 3-5 seconds on CTV's. I checked CTV Toronto HD and ABC Detroit HD.

james99 said:

True. CTV had no censorship. I assumed the same thing for ABC but all the news reports indicate that ABC bleeped it.

Articles stated ABC has a 7 second delay.

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That's what I figured, I just wasn't sure whether CTV had their own feed available or if they were just using the direct ABC feed like they do for shows such as The View. Apparently they had their own feed. I think this is one of the reasons CTV enjoys the fact that Canadians have the U.S. channels on their dial. Without them, simsubbing wouldn't exist and the U.S. studios/networks probably wouldn't allow CTV to get their own live feed of the Oscars, they'd have to wait like all the other countries.

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Ever since the Janet Jackson Super Bowl boob, most live events in the US have a delay (a few seconds) built in to allow censorship for sensitive American ears and eyes. I don't believe CTV has such a delay.

If you can view the programmes unsimsubbed, you can usually confirm the delay by switching between the Canadian and American Channels.

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Yeah I can view unsimsubbed, but I wasn't at home during the show and I just saw the clips this morning on YouTube. Just wanted to see whether CTV actually had a clean feed and left the profanity in.

I heard a beep and I was watching on CTV HD.

In fact, it was about all i heard as I got bored with the whole show and was surfing the web when I heard it being beeped out.

..Tom

CTV aired the clean feed and it was not bleeped.

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Using a * or % to pretend like its not a swear word is not allowed.

I heard it on CTV HD, OTA. Wasn't bleeped out.

What I liked was Anne Hathaway's response, "I thought "F" was for Fighter."

I had to laugh when right after it they put the 'PG' in the corner lol

for sensitive American ears and eyes.

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It's more likely to protect network affiliates from FCC fines. The righteous right in the US has a habit of forcing the FCC to impose fines on stations airing anything they don't like. I would hazard a guess that most people in the US don't care that much about the occasional swear word or wardrobe malfunction on network TV.

I filed a complaint against CTV with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. Hopefully CTV gets in trouble for airing this.

That may just help enforce more simsubbing,
George Carlon surley had a great chuckle over this

83, seriously dude?

Yeah, I'm not doing it because I was offended or anything, I just hate CTV.

I was thinking the same thing, I'm offended by simsubbing though.

Classof83, So you are basically telling the CRTC that you want programming censored on Canadian network TV?! One of the perks of Canadian TV is that we can watch movies and other content without the content butchering that goes on in the US. Way to go dude.

I just want to get CTV in trouble, that is my only motive.

Just a reminder that this thread is about the f-bomb at the academy awards and not about our hatred of simsub.
Lets focus on the original topic please.