WARNING: The following
content is explicit and will be EXTREMELY offensive to many.
ABC Airs F-Word During Live 8 Broadcast
NETWORK: ABC-TV
PROGRAM
TITLE: Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event
BROADCAST DATES: July
2, 2005
BROADCAST TIMES: 8:00 PM Eastern & Pacific/7:00 PM
Central & Mountain Time
On July 2nd the ABC Television Network aired Live
8: A Worldwide Concert Event -- a prerecorded program containing footage from
the many concerts that took place that day all across the world.
Audiences tuning-in to this family hour broadcast got an unexpected surprise at
the bottom of the first hour (8pm Eastern, 7pm Central). During The Who's
performance of "Who Are You" a line in the chorus "who the f*ck are you" was
aired unedited. The program was aired on a tape delay, which should have given
ABC ample time to edit all obscenities from the concert prior to broadcast. In
fact a number of other profanities were edited from the program, but this F-bomb
found its way into millions of living rooms across the country.
We need your help TODAY. If you feel that a network television broadcast of
"f*ck" violates your community standards, we urge you to act now and register
your indecency complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and
ABC.
