# Is TBS loosening it's offensive language censorship?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 1, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tbs-loosening-its-offensive-language-censorship/216288 "2003-12-01T16:34:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tbs-loosening-its-offensive-language-censorship/216288/21 "2003-12-04T17:00:10Z")

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> One thing I’ve always wondered is why PBS is not “censored” or whatver very much.

I don’t know if it’s still true, but when I lived in Salt Lake City there were two PBS stations, both associated with universities – KUED was the one affiliated with the secular University of Utah, while KBYU was associated with the LDS Brigham Young University. I quickly learned that KBYU censored its fare, while KUED ran it uncut. I was surprised to see that KBYU even censored the WGBH/Granada version of Sherlock Holmes!  
On the other hand, KBYU had the good taste to run Rocky and Bullwinkle, something I haven’t seen elsewhere on public broadcasting. Uncut, of course.

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