UK fans, please help me in my angry letter to Sky.

[Cactus Jack]

I am sick and tired of RAW being censored live at 2am in the f***in' morning.

They censor words like "ass", "crap" and "bitch".

The worst part is, they leave the repeat, at 9pm on Thursdays, uncensored.

Are any UK viewers annoyed by this as much as I am? Anyone got anything I could include in my e-mail of complaint to Sky?


Thanks.

[DrBackflipsHoffman]

Yea it's really really annoying, are you sure it's Sky censoring it? if it's coming in live it could be the US network censoring?

[A]

I'm pretty sick of this too, it's pathetic. What would be good is like a template letter or something, so everyone can send the same one.

[Chainsaw]

drbackflipshoffman said:

Yea it's really really annoying, are you sure it's Sky censoring it? if it's coming in live it could be the US network censoring?

Trust me, stuff like crap and ass fly with reckless abandon over here.

I actually heard "ass" in a commercial a few weeks back.

And it always kills me, the censorship laws in other countries. Some channels can show nudity on their shows, but they censor some wording in different situations. Weird.

[Cactus Jack]

It's not the USA Network censoring it, that's for sure. All the clips I've seen of RAW on the internet off of USA are uncensored.

Also, it has been mentioned by JR in his blog, and he said that the WWE aren't doing it.

[Cactus Jack]

Here's the direct quote from JR's blog, with the question and then the answer:

Does anyone here know where on WWE.com I can e-mail them about international TV broadcasts. It’s just I need to ask WWE why they keep censoring the live late night UK airings of WWE RAW.
I’ll explain further, since the summer of 2006, the late night live UK airings of RAW have been censored for language, words like….well “ass” have been bleeped, also…I can’t say it but what Melina called Maria on RAW last night is also bleeped along with some other words.
Now this has really affected my enjoyment of RAW, in fact I gave up on RAW last night after about 20 or more minutes because of them.
I e-mailed Sky about this and they said they don’t do it so I’m assuming WWE is doing it, I just want to know why and hopefully ask them if they can stop doing it

I am not up on the Sky censoring Raw issue but I SERIOUSLY doubt if the WWE does the censoring especially for the live broadcast of Raw. I do know there is some editing that goes on but not sure of the process.

It's strange, that's for sure. I think I'll rattle off a letter to both WWE and Sky.

[Legion]

BSKYB, thats the real name of Sky, are notorious for censoring things. They used to censor 'crap' out of the Simpsons and other sexual words outta things like Buffy.

I don't know why they censor the live version and not the replay. The only reason i can think of is that Sky shares the feed they recieve with countries where they have more heavy censorship. The replay on Thursday is not live, so they dont share and can leave in the words.

This a complete guess btw, except for the stuff about Sky being harsh censors

[Cactus Jack]

legion said:

BSKYB, thats the real name of Sky, are notorious for censoring things. They used to censor 'crap' out of the Simpsons and other sexual words outta things like Buffy.

Their laws got toned down in early 2000.

[Cousin Judge]

legion said:

The only reason i can think of is that Sky shares the feed they recieve with countries where they have more heavy censorship.

I believe it's only the USA and UK who get Raw live so any feed would be exclusive to UK.

[Cactus Jack]

areyouready said:

legion said:

The only reason i can think of is that Sky shares the feed they recieve with countries where they have more heavy censorship.

I believe it's only the USA and UK who get Raw live so any feed would be exclusive to UK.

Yeah. I am pretty sure it's Sky doing the censorship.

And it's not as if it's done well either. It's either a big long five second "bleep", or one in the style of :

UNCENSORED : "You son of a bitch, I am gonna beat you up"
CENSORED : "You son of a bitc*bleep*, onna beat you up"

[forgottensinpwf]

the score in Canada is also Censoring the word Ass on WWE Programming for some reason.


TSN Never did.

[Legion]

Well, i can't remember where i got this from, but i seem to remember that Sky also supplies WWE TV TO Italy and New Zealand, maybe that has something to do with it?

[Cactus Jack]

legion said:

Well, i can't remember where i got this from, but i seem to remember that Sky also supplies WWE TV TO Italy and New Zealand, maybe that has something to do with it?

Nope, that's on tape delay.

[Cactus Jack]

BUMP, please, I need help!

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forgottensinpwf said:

the score in Canada is also Censoring the word Ass on WWE Programming for some reason.


TSN Never did.

Yeah but at least with the score we finally get to watch women get their come-uppance completely uncensored!

[manx21]

censorship is stupid
i just watch them on dailymotion uncensored a few days after they air. that way i dont have to fork out for sky

[Cactus Jack]

manx21 said:

censorship is stupid

I agree with you there. Especially the fact that Sky are censoring it at 4am but not at 9pm.

Because, you know, there's an awful lot of impressionable youths watching at 4 IN THE MOTHER f***ING MORNING. Grrr.

[r213]

yeah this is annoying, send them a letter.

Im all for this.

[Cactus Jack]

In fact, I think everyone who is annoyed with it should send their own letter, as well as contributing ideas. If we spread them out a bit, it will seem like they're all seperate complaints.

[Legion]

cactusjack said:

legion said:

Well, i can't remember where i got this from, but i seem to remember that Sky also supplies WWE TV TO Italy and New Zealand, maybe that has something to do with it?

Nope, that's on tape delay.

Yeah, but if they are going to ship it out and they need to censor it, why not take the time to do when they are getting the live feed?

(BTW, i completely agree it's annoying, im just trying to fathom a reason so kinda half playing devil's advocte)