US television censors Rolling Stones
On Sunday evening, the ABC television network censored two of the three songs performed by the British alt-rock band. The performance was part of a live broadcast during halftime of Super Bowl XL.
The TV station ABC censored two of three songs by the British veteran rockers on Sunday evening. It was a live broadcast during halftime of Super Bowl XL. As reported by SDA with reference to the NY Times, the station broadcast the intermission program with a delay of five seconds in order to be able to cut inappropriate passages. Such delays in live broadcasts have been common since an incident on CBS two years ago. Back then, Justin Timberlake had ripped open Janet Jackson's top, revealing parts of her breast. At the time, the media regulator ordered CBS to pay 55,000 dollars. In the current censorship incident, the text passages that were blanked out were each an explicit word from sexual language.
