# Why is it that police radio is always the same on TV?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 18, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-police-radio-is-always-the-same-on-tv/182604 "2003-06-18T02:25:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![gutterhippo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gutterhippo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gutterhippo)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-police-radio-is-always-the-same-on-tv/182604/1 "2003-06-18T02:25:34Z")

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I don’t know if anyone else noticed this, but I’ve noticed that almost every time a TV show uses police radio as a sound clip, it’s always the same exact sound clip. It’s always a girl saying “Seven-eight-five code six, one-o-five north avenue.” The reason I even noticed this is because in an old spiderman computer game, the police officer kept repeating this over and over and over. I’ve noticed that they use the same radio clip in many tv shows. Recently, I noticed it was used on an episode of “Jackass” where someone is trying to jump a muddy creek with a bicycle and the cops are called. Does anyone know what the deal is?

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-police-radio-is-always-the-same-on-tv/182604/2 "2003-06-18T03:41:59Z")

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It’s a fake. The producers create their own radio sound bites to fit the show’s script. COPS does it all the time.

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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-that-police-radio-is-always-the-same-on-tv/182604/3 "2003-06-18T06:08:33Z")

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