OTTAWA – Last summer, CTV – along with several of the world’s broadcasters – admirably scrambled to help organize and stage multiple Live 8 concerts around the globe.
It was a feat of modern technology, broadcasting and took a ton of hard work to pull together. Dozens of bands across the world played to highlight the ongoing plight of the world’s poor. Normally such an enormous project takes months to pull off, not days.
Despite the goodwill, one complainer in New Brunswick heard the F-word during the broadcast and decided to put it in writing to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
And, since a member of Green Day said that naughty, naughty word just after noon Atlantic Time on July 5, 2005 during the live broadcast, and not after the so-called watershed hour of 9 p.m., when it’s allowed, the CBSC had no choice but to slap CTV’s wrists in a decision released Friday for not censoring the comment from the broadcast, saying it violates the broadcasters’ code of ethics.
