Talk:Bleep censor
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I restored bleep censor as a page in its own right, because it isn't solely used in live censoring of programmes, I think that's mainly in the US. Also, this page allows for national examples, which I think the "tape delay" page could too. - Responsible? 15:41, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Quick question: The FCC has no control over cable broadcasting, so why all the references to Comedy Central and MTV having to "censor themselves for the FCC"?
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[edit] The Bleep
Is there a source for the standard bleep used on most TV programs? It might be worth noting that it is an XXXX Hz sine/square/sawtooth wave tone that is most often used. Can anyone help with this? --George The Man 05:34, 2 May 2007 (UTC) The BLEEP noise used to censor profanity, other offensive content or names and personal details is a ONE KILOHERTZ frequency, monotone sine wave beep.
- Studios would use the most convenient tone source they had. In most cases, this was a tone generator. It was usually the same machine that generated other timing and test signals. Here's a sample from the Bars and tone article: --mdwyer
[edit] Frequency
Does anyone know the frequency (in Hz) of the bleep tone? —Wins oddf|✎ 22:30, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
- I doubt everybody uses exactly the same frequency, though it probably tends to be in a certain range. - furrykef (Talk at me) 05:58, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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- I don't know about Hertz, but when I hear the bleep it's normally at the musical note "B". Responsible? 16:32, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The type of bleep sound and it use
As far as I know there is no standard bleep sound. I suspect that the most easily available tone source is generally used by the sound engineer. This is probably going to be something like middle C, 440 Hz, because that is a common tone used to tune instruments, though 500 Hz and 1000 Hz are probably also available in many radio studios. Many of these tones are likely to be pure sine waves, as produced by a signal generator, I suspect.
However, I have noticed some TV producers are using more appropriate bleeping sounds. On recent law enforcement related reality TV programmes I have noticed that names and addresses are often masked, for privacy reasons, by multiple sequential tone bursts that are consistent with a land mobile radio's tone calling system. The bleeping becomes far less noticeable as the masking sound is not a single solid tone but a series of short blips that garble a word but sound consistent with the communications medium.
The fact that words are bleeped out for privacy reasons, rather than decency reasons, is probably also worth noting. -- Cameron Dewe 10:42, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
I made mention of the fact that some UK broadcasters are using silence instead of a tone. I think it's probably because it's far less intrusive than a beep. Of course, they still miss stuff all the time. I think they tend to scoot through the shows and check scenes with characters who are liable to swear, as I saw an episode of Frasier midday on Paramount Comedy where somebody said a swear they would have otherwise censored, but obviously missed as the character rarely swears (I think it was Niles). It also seems common for them to use the censored versions all the time. I queried this with Paramount once and they said something along the lines of 'yeah, we know. sorry'. So it's no-swear all the way mostly! KingDaveRa 14:06, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Beep (song)
Perhaps worth a mention? This heavily makes use of the censor bleep as an integral part of the song. Just a thought. 172.143.240.199 18:05, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Samurai Champloo Reference
Where is the record scratching used to cover up profanity? The only words I can think of that are worthy of being censored in Japanese would be マ〇コ and チ〇コ, which don't fit into any of the episodes... Konamaiki 03:09, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Arthur Vs. Rugrats
I don't think the Arthur episode mentioned is worth mentioning. The episode first aired in 2003. An episode of the Rugrats (Word of the Day) that first aired in 1998 covers the same topic. Angelica learns a swear word, which is covered by a new loud noise each time it is uttered (much like the words are in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode 'Sailor Mouth'). Should we change it? 24.21.41.90 (talk) 02:17, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] TFI Friday
Does anyone know much about Chris Evans show TFI Friday's bleeping? I remember various celebraties swore on it live and they were forced to introduce a tape delay for celebrity interviews so they could be bleeped. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.30.174 (talk) 16:27, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
