TITANS Fans Rip Radio Delay Of Game

(From Tennessean.com -- By Mike Organ)

Titans fans frustrated by a lengthy new delay during game broadcasts on radio can blame JANET JACKSON.

The pop star's "wardrobe malfunction" during the halftime show of SUPER BOWL XXXVIII in 2004, which resulted in one of her breasts being exposed, led to in stricter rules from
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC).

Those rules are the reason fans were subjected to a 12-SECOND delay in the Titans/Saints preseason game broadcast last Saturday, CITADEL BROADCASTING
Market Manager DAVE KELLY said.

The delay was particularly troublesome for the fans tuning in at LP FIELD.

Kelly said he has been inundated with emails and phone calls from upset listeners.

"The FCC's big thing that they're on right now is indecency with federally licensed broadcast facilities," Kelly said.

"If someone in the stands screams something out and it gets picked up on a crowd mike and it goes out over the network, there is a zero-tolerance policy with the FCC for about a $325,000 fine per incident."

"In order to be able to do what we do with these live broadcasts there are things that are outside of our control that could literally cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars. Because of the FCC, there's not an option on this."

Kelly said figuring out the proper delay time is a work in progress and it won't be quite as long this Saturday night when the Titans play the Broncos in Denver.

Titans Fans Rip Radio Delay Of Game

John Santamaria, thanks for the post.