Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This seven seconds 'profanity delay' seems to be a US thing, and > probably an FCC requirement. I've never seen such things used on this > side of the Atlantic. Some UK broadcasters certainly use this kind of delay when dealing with live callers, with a "dump" button that the presenter can use to drop the last few seconds. This sometimes gets reported on by Ofcom (the UK communications regulator) when it goes wrong, e.g. when LBC were feeding their FM service from the wrong side of the delay: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/broadcast-bulletins/obb68/ The Communications Act 2003 has a requirement to not include "offensive and harmful" material (which Ofcom interpret in a fairly liberal way, taking context into account), and a delay's a pretty good way of doing so when the presenter can't otherwise control what interviewees might say. -- Adam Sampson <ats@xxxxxxxxx> <http://offog.org/> _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
