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Because the "bible belt" is rural as fuck and doesn't have much sway in broadcast companies that dedicate programming to large swathes of the country at once.

>>952625

>What are local affiliates?

>>952616

I will give your thesis consideration if you can provide a single example of a TV show being banned by an affiliate due to the protests of Christian activists between 1994 and 1997. If you cannot then the answer is obviously that Christians lacked either the influence or the interest during that period and your "bible belt" boogeyman is, what does /leftypol/ call it? Ah yes, a spook.

>>952616

Hey /tv/

>>952633

NYPD Blue. The first episode was pre-empted in Southern states by 52 local affiliates because 'concerned parent' groups had labelled it a 'softcore porn' series

>>952648

Oh boy, a bunch of soccer moms came together and started to shriek their typical mating tune. What-a-shocker!

>>952652

You asked for examples. I gave you an example

>>952655

yeah didnt they scare demons or fight them off or something

>>952655

All a gargoyle is is a stone statue made for the purpose of diverting water away from a building's roof. It can be of anything, including a person. These gargoyles in particular are of demons.

>>952657

>>952656

In Christian mythology, gargoyles are demons who wish to do good. They perch outside of holy buildings because they still cannot physically enter a holy place

In thematic terms, they show that even the farthest gone sinners can find redemption

Fun fact: A gargoyle statue is only a gargoyle if water comes out of its mouth. Other such statues are called grotesques

>>952633

>spook

I wonder if leftists appreciate that that word can also be a synonym for "nigger".

Not in the bible belt, but the local NBC affiliate in South Bend, Indiana didn't broadcast "God, the Devil, and Bob" because of its content. The local NBC affiliate is run by Notre Dame University, a (theoretically) Catholic school.

>>952660

This (also, interesting, I didn't know that).

Also culture wasn't solid "Christian Soccer moms" all the way up to the SJW plague began in 2007. They seem to have had two recent peaks of influence, the D&D scare of the 80's and the Harry Potter scare of the early 2000's, (also the "back tracking" of the mid 70's, I think it was. I once saw an episode of CHIPs about it) the 90's were a trough.

>>952660

>In Christian mythology, gargoyles are demons who wish to do good.

Quote me up fam

>>952707

Backmasking. Judas Priest actually got dragged to court over it, so it was taken seriously at one time.

Also I remember Ralph Bakshi's Mighty Mouse being censored because soccer moms thought Mighty Mouse smelling a flower was a drug reference.

We should also count Jack Thompson in that category, there were a moral panics over Doom, Mortal Kombat, and GTA. And Night Trap, Custer's Last Stand, and Death Race.

We should also remember Dr. Wertham and Seduction Of The Innocent.

Shut the fuck up and post the awesome gay Brooklyn porn or Ms Demontits.

>>952747

If you'd actually seen the episode like you said, you'd know it was a flower before it dried up and turned to dust.