Boy, you people are fast. I just posted the question in the previous item and here comes Dave Sikula with the answer, which we can all find in this article. Basically, it's that stations all over the country have put in delays on live broadcasts for fear of F.C.C. fines if a naughty word gets on the air. Seems silly to me. Vin Scully has been broadcasting Dodgers games since 1950. How many obscenities have snuck in during that time?
My impression is that when there is outrage over naughty words or content on TV or radio, it's either over prepared content or cases like the Janet Jackson breast incident where someone felt the broadcasters could and should have pre-screened what was going to happen. Almost every week it seems, some forbidden word slips onto a news program or other live show somewhere and if it's clearly an accident, even the people who go way out of their way to get outraged about obscenity on TV or radio don't get outraged. I'm more offended by the delay than I would be about anything it could prevent.