Editing Radio edit (section)

==Offensive content==
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Radio edits often come with any necessary [[censorship]] done to conform to decency standards imposed by government agencies, such as the [[Federal Communications Commission]] in the [[United States]], the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] in [[Canada]], the [[Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas]] in the [[Philippines]], the [[Korea Communications Commission]] in [[South Korea]], the [[Australian Communications and Media Authority]] in [[Australia]], and [[Ofcom]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. The offending words may be silenced, reversed, distorted, or replaced by a [[Bleep censor|tone]] or sound effect. The edits may come from the record label itself, [[mass media|broadcasters]] at the corporate level before the song is sent for airplay to their stations, or in rarer cases, at a radio station itself depending on local standards.

Radio edits may have more or fewer words edited than the "'''clean version'''", because of the stations' or agencies' standards.  A "dirty" radio edit preserving the sound of the offensive word or words but maintaining the shorter play time may be produced, which may be aimed at club play, nighttime radio, and non-terrestrial radio stations. After two million copies of [[Michael Jackson]]'s "[[They Don't Care About Us]]" (1996) had already been shipped, the lyrics of the original track with the words "[[Jew]] me" and "[[kike]] me" were replaced with "do me" and "strike me" due to its controversial [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] references. Radio edit versions of the track remained with the original version until the edited version was pressed and released. An example occurs in [[Lady Gaga]]'s song "[[Poker Face (song)|Poker Face]]" (2008), where the line "P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face" has barely noticeable profanities. Some radio stations repeated the word "poker" from the first part of the line, while others played the original version. A promotional original audio recording studio radio version is available containing both of these versions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Lady-Gaga-Poker-Face/release/11549829|title=Lady Gaga - Poker Face|website=Discogs|language=en|access-date=2018-03-10}}</ref> The edited version is also available on the compilation ''[[Now That's What I Call Music! discography|Now That's What I Call Music! 31]]'' in the US.

In an unusual case, [[Lizzo]]'s "[[Truth Hurts (song)|Truth Hurts]]" (2017) was edited locally in June 2019 by the market-leading [[Top 40]] station [[WIXX]] in [[Green Bay, Wisconsin]], not because of inappropriate content, but due to Lizzo's reference in a lyric to an unnamed new player on the [[Minnesota Vikings]]. As WIXX is one of three [[flagship (broadcasting)|flagship stations]] for the [[Green Bay Packers]]' [[Packers Radio Network|radio network]] and features wraparound content involving the Packers, the station determined that referencing their hometown football team's [[Packers–Vikings rivalry|closest rival]] positively would be jarring to local listeners.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/06/11/lizzos-truth-hurts-gets-wixx-edit-remove-minnesota-vikings-references/1407288001/|title=This is Green Bay, man': WIXX edits Vikings references out of Lizzo's 'Truth Hurts'|last=Meinert|first=Kendra|date=11 June 2019|work=[[Green Bay Press-Gazette]]|access-date=17 June 2019}}</ref>

Some individual stations may be more lenient with words that tread the broadcast-appropriate line, depending on their management and programming format; for instance, a [[rhythmic AC]], [[classic hits]], [[adult contemporary]] or [[urban contemporary]] station may indeed make several radio edits to a song to appeal to a broad base of listeners, while a [[rhythmic contemporary]], [[modern rock]] or [[hip hop music|hip hop]]-focused station might be more apt to have a light hand in their radio edits to appeal both to listeners and artists who would be favorable to the station's reputation. Some edits might even be done for promotional reasons; for instance a song that mentions a city's name or a certain radio station might see a special 'station cut' where the station and its community are mentioned in the song (as heard in Lady Gaga's "[[You and I (Lady Gaga song)|You and I]]" (2011), which has a reference to Nebraska that is easily substituted with another region, state or city; similarly, [[Sia]]'s "[[Cheap Thrills (song)|Cheap Thrills]]" (2015) is sometimes edited to replace the line "turn the radio on" with "...turn [station name] on" to promote the radio station on which the song is playing).