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Bleep censor
A bleep censor is the replacement of profanity and classified information with a beep sound (usually a ⓘ), which is typically a 1 kilohertz sine wave, used in public television, radio, and on social media.
Bleeping has been used as a standard since the 1990s as a means of censoring TV and radio programs to remove content not deemed suitable for "family", "daytime", "broadcasting", or "international" viewing, as well as sensitive classified information for security. The bleep censor is a software module, manually operated by a broadcast technician. A bleep is sometimes accompanied by a digital blur pixelization or box over the speaker's mouth in cases where the removed speech may still be easily understood by lip reading.
In subtitles, bleeped words are usually represented by [bleep]. Sometimes the phrases [expletive], [beep], [censored], and [explicit] are used, while it is also common (though less so) to see hyphens (e.g. abbreviations of the word fuck like f—k f---), a series of X's, or asterisks and other non-letter symbols (e.g., ****, f***, f**k, f*ck, f#@k, f#@%, or f*k), remaining faithful to the audio track. The characters used to denote censorship in text are called grawlixes.Where open captions are used (generally in instances where the speaker is not easily understood) a blank is used where the word is bleeped. A character that is used to denote censoring can technically replace multiple letters, though it is not standard.[citation needed] Occasionally, bleeping is not reflected in the captions, allowing the unedited dialogue to be seen.[citation needed] Sometimes, a black bar can be seen for a closed caption bleep.[better source needed]
Bleeping is mostly used in unscripted programs such as documentaries, radio features, and panel games, since scripted productions are designed to suit the time of their broadcast. For example, on the Discovery Channel, bleeping is extremely common. In the case of scripted comedies, most bleeping may be used for humorous purposes, and other sound effects may be substituted for the bleep tone for comical effect; examples of this include a slide whistle, a baby cooing, dolphin noises, or the "boing" of a spring. Some scripted comedies purposely incorporate bleeping for comedic purposes; for example, profanity in the American sitcom Reno 911! is always bleeped as the show is presented in a mockumentary style, while a recurring joke used in sketches by Australian comedy group Aunty Donna features the bleep appearing slightly too late, resulting in the original profanity being clearly heard before it is immediately followed by a bleep that either serves no purpose or interrupts what the speaker was saying after they had already used profanity. In Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday-night segment named "This Week In Unnecessary Censorship", the bleep censor is used for comedic effect in cases when an actual expletive is not present to make them appear inappropriate or profane by editing clips from television programs, news, speeches, interviews, and sometimes animated series and movies, as well as in fan-made online videos that resemble the "Unnecessary Censorship" format. Additionally, Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show has not regularly aired live since April 23, 2004, when censors were unable to properly bleep censor a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane.
Other uses of bleeping may include reality television, infomercials, game shows, and daytime/late night talk shows, where the bleep conceals personally identifying information such as ages, surnames, addresses/hometowns, phone numbers, and attempts to advertise a personal business without advanced or appropriate notice, in order to maintain the subject's privacy (as seen for subjects arrested in episodes of Traffic Cops or COPS).[better source needed]
When films are edited for daytime/nighttime TV, broadcasters may prefer not to bleep swearing, but cut out the segment containing it, replace the speech with different words, or cover it with silence or a sound effect.[citation needed]
Bleeping is commonly used in English-language, Russian-language and Japanese-language broadcasting, and also in ex-Eastern Bloc countries like Poland, Hungary, Romania, Baltic states, most post-Soviet states, but is sometimes and rarely used in some other languages (such as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian), displaying the varying attitudes between countries; some are more liberal towards swearing, less inclined to use strong profanities in front of a camera in the first place, or unwilling to censor. For example, in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, the bleep censor is not used for censoring out swear words on the television and radio broadcasting as people from these countries people swear more freely than people from English-speaking countries. Instead, the bleep censor on the television in these countries is mostly used for censoring out any sensitive information, rather than censoring out profanity, as was the case in the Dutch investigative television program Peter R. de Vries: Crime Reporter, which aired from 1995 to 2012.
On live TV airings, live TV broadcastings prefer to mute the sound to censor profanity rather than bleep over it. This was already the case on March 27, 2022, when American television broadcaster ABC muted the sound during a live broadcast of the Oscars after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock and shouted, "Keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth!", to which Rock responded, "Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me!". Nevertheless, the complete verbal exchange between Smith and Rock was broadcast uncensored in other countries like Japan, China, Australia, and Argentina.
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Bleep censor
A bleep censor is the replacement of profanity and classified information with a beep sound (usually a ⓘ), which is typically a 1 kilohertz sine wave, used in public television, radio, and on social media.
Bleeping has been used as a standard since the 1990s as a means of censoring TV and radio programs to remove content not deemed suitable for "family", "daytime", "broadcasting", or "international" viewing, as well as sensitive classified information for security. The bleep censor is a software module, manually operated by a broadcast technician. A bleep is sometimes accompanied by a digital blur pixelization or box over the speaker's mouth in cases where the removed speech may still be easily understood by lip reading.
In subtitles, bleeped words are usually represented by [bleep]. Sometimes the phrases [expletive], [beep], [censored], and [explicit] are used, while it is also common (though less so) to see hyphens (e.g. abbreviations of the word fuck like f—k f---), a series of X's, or asterisks and other non-letter symbols (e.g., ****, f***, f**k, f*ck, f#@k, f#@%, or f*k), remaining faithful to the audio track. The characters used to denote censorship in text are called grawlixes.Where open captions are used (generally in instances where the speaker is not easily understood) a blank is used where the word is bleeped. A character that is used to denote censoring can technically replace multiple letters, though it is not standard.[citation needed] Occasionally, bleeping is not reflected in the captions, allowing the unedited dialogue to be seen.[citation needed] Sometimes, a black bar can be seen for a closed caption bleep.[better source needed]
Bleeping is mostly used in unscripted programs such as documentaries, radio features, and panel games, since scripted productions are designed to suit the time of their broadcast. For example, on the Discovery Channel, bleeping is extremely common. In the case of scripted comedies, most bleeping may be used for humorous purposes, and other sound effects may be substituted for the bleep tone for comical effect; examples of this include a slide whistle, a baby cooing, dolphin noises, or the "boing" of a spring. Some scripted comedies purposely incorporate bleeping for comedic purposes; for example, profanity in the American sitcom Reno 911! is always bleeped as the show is presented in a mockumentary style, while a recurring joke used in sketches by Australian comedy group Aunty Donna features the bleep appearing slightly too late, resulting in the original profanity being clearly heard before it is immediately followed by a bleep that either serves no purpose or interrupts what the speaker was saying after they had already used profanity. In Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday-night segment named "This Week In Unnecessary Censorship", the bleep censor is used for comedic effect in cases when an actual expletive is not present to make them appear inappropriate or profane by editing clips from television programs, news, speeches, interviews, and sometimes animated series and movies, as well as in fan-made online videos that resemble the "Unnecessary Censorship" format. Additionally, Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show has not regularly aired live since April 23, 2004, when censors were unable to properly bleep censor a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane.
Other uses of bleeping may include reality television, infomercials, game shows, and daytime/late night talk shows, where the bleep conceals personally identifying information such as ages, surnames, addresses/hometowns, phone numbers, and attempts to advertise a personal business without advanced or appropriate notice, in order to maintain the subject's privacy (as seen for subjects arrested in episodes of Traffic Cops or COPS).[better source needed]
When films are edited for daytime/nighttime TV, broadcasters may prefer not to bleep swearing, but cut out the segment containing it, replace the speech with different words, or cover it with silence or a sound effect.[citation needed]
Bleeping is commonly used in English-language, Russian-language and Japanese-language broadcasting, and also in ex-Eastern Bloc countries like Poland, Hungary, Romania, Baltic states, most post-Soviet states, but is sometimes and rarely used in some other languages (such as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian), displaying the varying attitudes between countries; some are more liberal towards swearing, less inclined to use strong profanities in front of a camera in the first place, or unwilling to censor. For example, in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, the bleep censor is not used for censoring out swear words on the television and radio broadcasting as people from these countries people swear more freely than people from English-speaking countries. Instead, the bleep censor on the television in these countries is mostly used for censoring out any sensitive information, rather than censoring out profanity, as was the case in the Dutch investigative television program Peter R. de Vries: Crime Reporter, which aired from 1995 to 2012.
On live TV airings, live TV broadcastings prefer to mute the sound to censor profanity rather than bleep over it. This was already the case on March 27, 2022, when American television broadcaster ABC muted the sound during a live broadcast of the Oscars after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock and shouted, "Keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth!", to which Rock responded, "Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me!". Nevertheless, the complete verbal exchange between Smith and Rock was broadcast uncensored in other countries like Japan, China, Australia, and Argentina.