[LINK] "Profanity delay system" and "automated profanity eli mination" for US radio & TV

[M.da Cruz]

The point is [Video/Audio]Tape Delay systems are used for broadcasting 
across Time Zones. The genesis of the afore mentined D-CART system was a 
hard disk based Audio delay system, that delayed ABC (and subsequently 
SBS) National radio broadcasts across the various Australian Time Zones
(before 1988 from my understanding). ie Radio National programs are
transmitted at the same local time. In summer - there is  a three hour 
time difference between Perth and Sydney and there are five time zones 
across Australia.

This may not have been a big thing in the US, in the past, as there were
probably restrictions about operating across multiple states. In a
similar vein to restrictions on banking and telecommunications.

I recall the DEC/VMS password systems had profanity checks - in testing
the list we soon discovered they were an odd list possibly what were
considered profanities in the US. Many Australian profanities seemed
quite acceptable.

I wonder if there is a list of SMS/texting profanities - I assume that
such things do exist. Does the telecommunication network block them out.

Perhaps this is what the yellow pages, voice recognition directory
service, business model was - they were collecting a database of
profanities in various accents. If it wasn't then I will gratefully
accept royalties for the idea.

Marghanita



Chirgwin, Richard wrote:
> I might be missing something ... doesn't Australian radio already have the
> seven-second "kill switch" time, in case someone lets slip with a live to
> air crow call?
> 
> Or is it just automating the function that Todd Maffin is concerned about?
> 
 >>From Todd Maffin's FutureFile newsletter:
 >    ... Between wardrobe malfunctions and Howard Stern, it seems a new
 >    category is emerging among broadcasters in the U.S. Lots of tape-delay
 >    systems were on display (including one with a one-hour delay ?
 >    http://www.prophetsys.com/lines/Broadcast/contentcheck.asp -- 
what's the
 >    point?!)  But I thought the automatic curse-word scrubber was the most
 >    interesting:

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