[grc] Profanity Philter...

[Terry O'Laughlin]

Larry,
We're budgeting to buy an Eventide BD-600, which several places offer for
just under $3,000.  We currently use a BD-500 which does not have digital
in and out and has some reboot after power down issues.

These units are remote controlled from the studio where we have a "dump"
button.  We currently program the BD-500 to dump 8 seconds.  It does this
nicely with no dead air and many people don't notice the snip.  We may try
stacked 5 sec bumps (first push 5 sec, second push another 5 sec) for
longer outbursts or two profanity in quick succession.  It takes our BD-500
several minutes to rebuild the 8 secs of buffered audio and the dump
capability is severely limited during that rebuilding time.

It was disconcerting to volunteer programmers at first because the long
audio delay on the air signal.  When they accidentally switched their
monitors from studio to air, they often went bonkers.  Now people are used
to it.

I can't say it gets used often or well, but our DC attorney tells us that
in the event profanity slips out, the FCC is more lenient with stations
that have a dump system (aka profanity filter) installed.

Terry O'
WORT-FM

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Lanny Cotler via grc <
grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:

> Gentlepeople,
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> We’re hoping to purchase our phone hybrid system soon. Since our station
> wants to spring for a two-caller rig, where the host can put two callers on
> the air at the same time, we’ve been warned that we MUST HAVE A PROFANITY
> FILTER.
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> Is this discretion the better part of valor? Is this necessary? I ask
> since I’ve been told this will cost over $2000. True?
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> We’d appreciate any comments or suggestions on how to proceed.
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> Radiologically,
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> Lanny
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