PTC Praises ABC's Clean Coverage of NBA Finals
The Parents Television Council had a word or two for ABC Friday, and they were all good.PTC complaints about profanity on-air have been a vuvuzela-like undertone to the increasingly colorful, though mostly bleeped, TV vernacular. But PTC came not to bury ABC in complaints, but to praise it.
“The most exhausted person after last night’s Game Seven of the NBA finals probably wasn’t a member of the Lakers or Celtics - it was the person who had control over the bleep button,” said PTC president Tim Winter. “We are grateful for ABC’s commitment to airing a championship broadcast that children and families could enjoy without being assaulted by inappropriate and profane language.”
Winter said PTC had detected a few un-bleeped profanities in the first game of the series, which wrapped with a Lakers seventh-game victory Thursday night, but that ABC had done well afterward.
He called on other broadcasters to be as quick and effective on the button.
Irina commented:
that they were better than the all-star team of the same year minus the bulls plreays.With names like Jordan, Pippen, Rodman, Kerr and Toni Kukoc(6th man of the year), not to mention a coach like Phil Jackson, this team was pretty much unbeat-a-bull in fact, seven of its playoff wins were by 17 points or more. The only blemish was the Bulls' two losses to the Sonics in the Finals, even though they were up 3-0 at that time and became the NBA Champions for the 4th time.
T Dog commented:
Listening to the NBA Finals was a painful and annoying one with all the audio dropouts. I can tell you where the PTC and Disney can shove their "dump button"!