KFVS OBJECTS TO EXPLETIVE

Station officials at KFVS-TV were vocal in their objections to an expletive aired during the March 1 broadcast of the Grammy Awards presentations. As a result of those objections and others received from network affiliates around the country, CBS has changed its procedures for broadcasting such live presentations.

In accepting an award, Bono of the rock group U2 used a sexual reference that KFVS General Manager Howard Meagle informed CBS was "totally unacceptable on broadcast television."

"I am compelled on behalf of the viewers who have complained to me personally ... to request CBS take what steps necessary to prevent the artist who uttered the profanity from ever appearing on CBS in the future, and do whatever is possible to prevent such an incident from occurring again," Meagle wrote to CBS the day after the Grammys.

Tony Malara, president of CBS affiliate relations, responded that the network has reviewed its policies and will make more extensive use of brief "delays" in order to minimize the possibility of a similar occurrence.

The technique was employed during Tuesday night's People's Choice Awards, according to Malara.