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</head><body><p>We expect our presenters not to use the sorts of word in question on air at any time, and I don't recall any of the dozens of presenters we have had ever letting us down, even accidentally. At most times we will also not play music containing such language (which is rife in modern pop, and needs care to select the 'radio edit' versions). </p><p>However, we have had some late night specialist music shows where we have agreed that the presenters can play tracks with lyrics that we would not generally accept during daytime. Those shows are preceded with a warning about potentially strong language in the lyrics, and a similar warning attached to programme listings and trailers for the shows. We have never had so much as a raised eyebrow, let alone a single complaint about those shows. (Though we did once get a complaint about language used in the Bible when a passage from that was read out!).<br></p><p>Alex<br></p><blockquote type="cite">On 30 September 2016 at 17:22 Phonic FM <info@phonic.fm> wrote:<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'calibri',sans-serif;">"Do Ofcom for example have a different code for Radio than TV        what I am trying to say is if I heard the ‘f’ word on TV, I don’t particularly like it as it’s unnecessary, but I tend to just shrug my shoulders and go ‘’oh well’’    where as, if I heard the ‘f’ word on Radio, I would find it quite offensive."<br><br></span></div><span>As one of the stations named in the report we'd have to, in all honesty, say that the process that OFCOM went through was thorough and provided an opportunity for an input from the station. We might question whether the process is appropriate for a station with no employees since it seems to take no account of the fact that all correspondence required one of the Directors who is mainly only available outside working hours to deal with all aspects of the process which was quite time consuming. For the station which has over 80 different people a week on-air,monitoring output is difficult, and largely left to the individual presenters, as we have no playlist. All we have direct control over is the playout/sustaining service. We've been censured subsequent to this for another breach of the same rules. The findings of the report are interesting to us (if statistically fragile) and OFCOM asked permission to use the clip as an example</span></div></blockquote></body></html>