NBC station in Salt Lake City, owned by a Mormon-owned company, won't show new drama 'Playboy Club'

[alp227]

...reports Broadcasting & Cable; KSL-TV (based in Salt Lake City with repeaters throughout the state of Utah) based the decision "on the station's long-term policy to screen programming for material which significant portions of our audience may find objectionable." Keep in mind that this is a business, not government decision like the FCC or a court ordering prior restraint (which is unconstitutional per the Pentagon Papers case). The Playboy Club is scheduled to be shown on the third hour of Monday primetime, 10PM Eastern and Pacific, 9PM elsewhere. B&C describes it as "a dark drama featuring a Don Draper-esque leading man, played by Eddie Cibrian, and a hutch of women in bunny costumes, is set in Chicago in the 1960s. The show stood out amidst a large batch of new programs at NBC's upfront presentation in May. A number of affiliates in attendance said they were curious about how Playboy Club would be regarded by viewers." And of course most likely to have a TV-14 rating.

My comment on this: KSL is owned by Deseret Media, a company owned by the Latter-Day Saints church. I see a "treating adults like children" connection between this decision and the Honor Code at the LDS-run Brigham Young Unviersity; KSL can't trust its own audience to make informed viewing decisions (doesn't the word "Playboy" reveal a lot already as well as the late primetime slot.) I've heard of cases of stations blocking out network programming before, such as ABC affiliates run by Sinclair Broadcasting Group pre-empting an edition of Nightline where Ted Koppel read the names of soldiers killed in the Iraq War.

[ejpoeta]

1. personally i have no interest in that show, but i would like to be able to make

that choice for myself rather than some religious owned station to make it for me. luckily i don't live there. i live in wny. but i think that this idea that these stations can decide for their audience is crap. the audience would decide by turning the channel wouldn't they?

[WCGreen]

2. They really are missing a chance to get a view into the mindset of

the men who run the Republican Party.

It's just a variation of the MadMan theme.

[rbixby]

3. Theocracy

that's what it is there.

[medeak]

4. Utah NBC network doesn't broadcast SNL

it's on another channel. No big surprise

[provis99]

5. Utah No. 1 in online porn subscriptions, report says

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705288350/Utah-No-1-in-online-porn-subscriptions-report-says.html

Be honest Mormons. I know your founder was a con man and liar, but you don't have to be. Admit it: you secretly crave the pron.