Path: utzoo!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bigsur!bnr-rsc!jim
From: jim@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Jim Somerville)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Stupid Censor Board
Message-ID: <1586@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 15:47:02 GMT
References: <647@alias.UUCP> <51925@looking.on.ca> <230@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: jim@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Jim Somerville)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <230@watserv1.waterloo.edu> djohnson@watserv1.waterloo.edu ( DOUG JOHNSON - GEOGRAPHY ) writes:
>At least one of the movies in question was Hollywood Shuffle. It makes
>me wonder who is responsible for the editing - is it the individual
>stations/networks/distributers? All of the above? Anyone know the answer?
>(BTW I thought the ONtario Censor Board didn't have a mandate to censor
>television, only to classify movies and videos - any comments on this?).

The Ontario Censor Board has no jurisdiction over television (thank
God).  Sometimes the cut of the movie the station receives has already
been censored.  I remember a station apologizing to its viewers once
for the pre-censored flick it was showing from the US.  GLOBAL shows
Elvira's Movie Macabre often censored because obviously that's how 
they receive it from the US,  and GLOBAL was known as introducing
nudity to soap operas in Southern Ontario.

I believe the CRTC has guidelines, generally geared to community
standards.  Some of the stuff shown on Quebec French stations would
evoke outcry if shown on prudish Ontario stations.  When Super Ecran
(the French service of First Choice) showed some X-rated material,
there was public outcry and the CRTC asked them to tone it down (back
in their early days).
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