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MrCleveland · 03-31-2018, 12:24 AM

Me, my dad, and my brother were watching To Sir, With Love and one scene there's a montage with statues...some were naked and...the private parts were fuzzed.

My Movies! affiliate is WBNX which years ago would censor the word "butt" since it's owned by a Pentecostal Church, but...is it my affiliate that censors the film like that or is it ALL Movies! affiliates?

8traxrule · 04-11-2018, 08:41 PM

The network does all censoring. They seem to prefer to fuzz out 'naughty' stuff than cut it completely, but doing that with statues is pretty ridiculous.

MrCleveland · 04-22-2018, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by 8traxrule

The network does all censoring. They seem to prefer to fuzz out 'naughty' stuff than cut it completely, but doing that with statues is pretty ridiculous.

I found that out...I was wondering since WBNX at one point (the mid-90's) would censor profane words like "butt" since it was owned by a Pentecostal Megachurch (Cathedral of Tomorrow/Grace cathedral). The same way that CN would censor curse words, but keep OMG. So if A Christmas Story was on CN, They may blank-out the F-dash-dash-dash line or when Old Man Parker would say "Hot Damn, It's Coming Tonight"! It would be "Hot ____ It's Coming Tonight"!

It did have reruns of The Ed Sullivan Show in the 1990's, so would the word "higher" be blanked?

03-31-2018, 12:24 AM	#1
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04-11-2018, 08:41 PM	#2
8traxrule Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Aug 23, 2016 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 15	The network does all censoring. They seem to prefer to fuzz out 'naughty' stuff than cut it completely, but doing that with statues is pretty ridiculous.