History MediaNotes / SafeHarbor

* PBS and RKO Pictures' adaptation of the play ''The Gin Game'', in which Mary Tyler Moore and Creator/DickVanDyke drop [[ClusterFBomb F-Bombs]] on each other for five minutes.

* City TV (Toronto) and other local TV stations in Canada used to schedule soft porn late at night. After Rogers acquired City TV the porn was dropped permanently.

Thanks to fickle advertisers who don't want to be associated with risque content, this rule is seldom exploited. A notable exception is Creator/{{PBS}}, which, thanks to a combination of its funding system and its audience, tends to just let things fly on their post-Safe Harbor programming, particularly shows imported from Britain.

* Pretty much the point of Creator/AdultSwim, though the block has shifted up to ''before'' the safe harbor time at 8PM EST as of 2018 and normally starts out with tamer programming such as ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''.

* A careful analysis of Creator/SpikeTV's advertising during the Safe Harbor reveals that the network apparently assumes its entire viewership to be male, between 18 and 30, undereducated, unemployed or underemployed, and horny. They actually fired the exec in charge of the channel in 2005 for bringing in too many female viewers. In Spike's defense, channel formats are bait to draw in people for ads, after all, and women weren't their intended market. Ironically, Spike later reversed this course in 2011, saying they wanted to be a channel for "men, not just guys" and welcoming female viewers.

* In Germany, TV stations can show programs rated 18 only from 11pm to 6am. Public stations are not bound to this and can show everything they want at every time, but the only station that actually uses this power is ARTE, the artistic channel which sees censoring as being against their theme.

However, "obscene" material (which has a specific legal definition) is still prohibited, and that includes cable and satellite stations as well as broadcast. Examples of "obscene" material would be child pornography and certain forms of hard-core adult pornography. The exact definition was given by the U.S. Supreme court in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California Miller v. California]]''.

* In Germany tv stations can show programs rated 18 only from 11pm to 6am. Public stations are not bound to this and can show everything they want at every time, but the only station that actually uses this power is ARTE, the artistic channel which sees censoring as being against their theme.

* Pretty much the point of Creator/AdultSwim. Hell, nowadays, it sometimes airs from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM exactly.

* Creator/{{BET}}'s had a one-hour block of music videos from 2000 to 2006 entitled "BET Uncut", which was broadcast Wednesdays through Fridays at 3 a.m. (humorously, the block sometimes appeared before an early-morning church service on the schedule). The block was most known for its videos that bordered on softcore porn, though some also were aired in the Uncut block due to violence, excessive drug references, or controversial political views.

Similar to the UK's {{Watershed}} and OtakuOClock.

Similar to the UK's {{Watershed}}. What're they doing, ''trying'' to make us need to pee?

** A kind of predecessor was ''{{Toonami}}'s'' "Midnight Run" showing of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', without most of the censorship shown in the afternoon broadcast earlier in the day.

* When Conan O'Brien moved from 12:35/11:35 to 11:35/10:35, a big deal was made about how some of his show's racier skits could not go with him. Sort of. The biggest offender everyone could think of was the Masturbating Bear, which actually showed up and did his thing on the show's prime-time MilestoneCelebration in 2003. He also showed up on TheTonightShow when Conan got sick of NBC's extreme ExecutiveMeddling. Conan's going to cable, so he'll be much freer content-wise.

* Comedy Central shows uncensored Stand-Up and movies in their Secret Stash. Comedy Central also shows commercials for "Girls Gone Wild", phone sex networks, and pay per view porn at that time. Indeed, they broadcast one or more of these ads ''every commercial break'' after 10:00. It can get a little annoying. This has now gone through the looking glass, to where the newer stand-up acts aired during these time slots will actively reference that the viewer will likely see at least one Girls Gone Wild commercial during the breaks.

* A careful analysis of Creator/SpikeTV's advertising during the Safe Harbor reveals that the network apparently assumes its entire viewership to be male, between 18 and 30, undereducated, unemployed or underemployed, and pathetically horny.
** To be fair that is why the channel was created. They actually fired the exec in charge of the channel in 2005 for bringing in too many female viewers. Channel formats are bait to draw in people for ads, after all, and women weren't their intended market. (Spike later reversed this course in 2011, saying they wanted to be a channel for "men, not just guys" and welcoming female viewers.)

There are no restrictions on cable or satellite TV stations or satellite radio.

However, "obscene" material (which has a specific legal definition) is still prohibited, and that includes cable and satellite stations as well as broadcast. Examples of "obscene" material would be child pornography and certain forms of hard-core adult pornography.

"Obscene" material (which has a specific legal definition) is still prohibited. Examples of "obscene" material would be child pornography and certain forms of hard-core adult pornography.

* The Swedish version of Creator/{{MTV}} used to show rather explicit music videos, such as "Everybody Knows That You're Insane" by Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge, which featured a naked guy running around in his apartment doing... unorthodox stuff.

* A careful analysis of SpikeTV's advertising during the Safe Harbor reveals that the network apparently assumes its entire viewership to be male, between 18 and 30, undereducated, unemployed or underemployed, and pathetically horny.

** A kind of predecessor was ''{{Toonami}}'s'' "Midnight Run" showing of ''GundamWing'', without most of the censorship shown in the afternoon broadcast earlier in the day.

* City TV (Toronto) and other local TV stations in Canada used to schedule soft porn late at night. Now they don't air any porn at all, ever since Rogers recently acquired City TV.

* In Germany tv stations can show programms rated 18 only from 11pm to 6am. Public stations are not bound to this and can show everything they want at every time but the only station that actually uses this power is ARTE which is the artistic channel and sees censoring as being against their theme.

** Most of the comedy specials debuted first on pay TV stations like {{HBO}} which are not covered by F.C.C. censorship rules.

Similar to the UK's {{Watershed}}. What're they, ''trying'' to make us need to pee?

Under FCC rules, the content restrictions on broadcast TV and broadcast radio do not apply between 10:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. This allows "indecent" (R, and even NC-17 rated) programming to be shown uncensored on regular networks. Between 10:00 P.M.-6:00 A.M. they can play "offensive" material, such as George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television."