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ABC Delays "The View," "GMA"
The backlash over Breastgate continues.
With the FCC putting pressure on broadcast networks to clean up their act following Janet Jackson's Super Bowl exposure, ABC--in an unprecedented move-- has decided to take the "live" out of its live shows.
The New York Post reports that the Alphabet has instituted a five-second delay for Good Morning America and The View, two daytime talkers that typically broadcast in real time. (The network had already slapped a delay on February's Oscar telecast.)
ABC implemented the delay Wednesday morning when Jackson turned up on GMA for a not-so live performance of "Just a Little While," the latest single off her new album, Damita Jo, which just hit record stores.
The promotional appearance was allegedly scheduled long before the embattled singer's controversial "wardrobe malfunction" that sparked the current indecency uproar and forced networks to scramble to placate federal regulators intent on cracking down.
Calls to the network were not returned.
But ABC Daytime executive Felicia Minei Behr told the Post that the delay was initiated as a precaution for network viewers incensed over past transgressions, such as when U2's Bono uttered the dreaded "F" word during his acceptance speech at last year's Golden Globes broadcast on NBC.
In that instance, the FCC originally ruled that Bono's expression, saying winning was "f**kin' brilliant," was not obscene because the rocker used the expletive as an adjective, not to describe a sexual act. However post-Janet, FCC chairman Michael Powell has since asked his fellow commissioners to overturn that decision.
"We're in the process of taking the steps necessary to ensure that what we air best serves our stations and our audience," Minei Behr said "We have other ways, without using a five-second delay, of protecting our shows if we were concerned. [For example], in the past, we've asked for pretaped segments if we felt we were skating on thin ice."
The rep denied the network caved to conservative pressure and maintains such guidelines had been in the works for some time now, even before Jackson supposedly lost control.
"It's been in discussion for months," added Minei Behr. "But what the Super Bowl did was give everyone something to point to."
The end of live television as we know it perhaps?
Ironically, the first guest on the day The View instituted the delay was Oscar-winning actor and liberal activist Tim Robbins who used the occasion to poke fun at the censors by flashing his own jewelry-clad nipple.
When questioned by Barbara Walters what his view of the new policy was, the thesp quipped, "If it's alright with you, I'd like to test it!" He then unbuttoned his shirt and exposed his nipple adornment, drawing roars of laughter from the studio audience.
Appropriately enough, the thespian was on the morning gabfest to discuss his new play Embedded, a satire which he wrote and directed about government censorship during the war in Iraq which just opened at New York's Public Theater.
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