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More than 20 ABC affiliates around the country have announced that they won't take part in the network's Veterans Day airing of "Saving Private Ryan,"

Anyone have a list of those 20 stations? Wonder if they are in blue states or red states....

Anyone have a list of those 20 stations? Wonder if they are in blue states or red states...

The guy quoted, Cole, is speaking for the ABC stations in Lincoln and Sioux City and Des Moines as I recall.

Look, this had to be an easy call for him. The possibility of fines and plenty of people who complain every time the f-word is aired or even if it gets bleeped out. People are fed up with it. Even if they bleep it, we all know what they actually said from the context.

Good for Cole and his stations. You don't need vulgar language to make good movies and TV. Generally, it covers for mediocre content anyway. If it's good enough, it doesn't need vulgar language. If it's not good, then why bother to show it?

Maybe Tom Hanks and Hollyweird will think twice before making something like this again with gratuitous vulgarity. Beyond that, Hollyweird now sees that their royalties (with which they fund loonie Lefties) get cut visibly if they market vulgar language in what should be G-rated material.

Anyone have a list of those 20 stations?

From this morning's Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

"It would clearly have been our preference to run the movie. We think it's a patriotic, artistic tribute to our fighting forces," Ray Cole, president of Citadel Communications, told AP Radio. The company owns WOI-TV in Des Moines, KCAU-TV in Sioux City and KLKN-TV in Lincoln, Neb.
Other stations choosing to replace the movie with other programming include Atlanta's WSB-TV, WFAA-TV of Dallas, WGNO-TV of New Orleans, WCPO-TV of Cincinnati, WSYX-TV of Columbus, WISN-TV of Milwaukee, WSOC-TV of Charlotte, N.C., WVEC-TV of WMUR-TV of Manchester, N.H., WHAS-TV of Louisville, Ky. and KVUE-TV of Austin, Texas. They are owned by a variety of companies, including Cox Television, Tribune Broadcasting Corp., Hearst-Argyle Television Inc., Belo Corp. and Sinclair Broadcast Group.