[kellynla]

Investigate? Investigate what? CBS had a seven second delay that they could have "cut away" from the Jackson breast revelation if they wanted to. And they failed to do so. Let's see $27K times 200....that's about $5 Mil. Hmmmmm, will they take a check?

[new cruelty]

CBS had a seven second delay that they could have "cut away" from the Jackson breast revelation if they wanted to.

I didn't think that applied to live television, just live radio.

[RayChuang88]

It may be a pretty big fine against Viacom, to say the least. Remember, they're also investigating the other parts of the halftime show, and we could end up with a fine that will be over US$10,000,000.

[Timesink]

CBS had a seven second delay that they could have "cut away" from the Jackson breast revelation if they wanted to.

Seven-second delays are not SOP. The option is available, but it's rarely used unless the broadcaster has a reason to expect something bad is likely to occur (for example, during a car chase they'll turn on the delay so the public won't see the thief run over a pedestrian, or end up getting shot by the cops).

It's especially rare to have it used during sporting events, because a lot of people prefer to turn the sound off and use radio coverage as their audio while only watching the picture. If the radio broadcast and TV picture ended up being seven or eight seconds apart, the network would get tons of complaints.

[BigSkyFreeper]

CBS itself owns and operates 16 stations nationwide, and controls 34 Viacom stations nationally. That's 50, not 200, giving a grand total of $1.3 million dollars, which is less than a 30 second Super Bowl ad.