[SamAdams76]

What's the difference? Everybody has cable these days. I don't understand why the standards would be different is the signal traveled by cable or over the airwaves. It's the same program.

[Texaggie79]

Because they can't control cable, as they can public airwaves.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

They don't have the F word on cable, only on the "premium" channels, like HBO or SHOWTIME. Extended cable are stations like TNT, BRAVO, AMC, etc. I think this is a bad move for ABC. It opens the door to further use of the word.