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11 June 2007 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Last week's court ruling that the FCC could not bar the use of "fleeting expletives" during live telecasts may have resulted in a more relaxed atmosphere in the control booth during Sunday night's CBS coverage of the Tony Awards. The upshot was that when actor John Mahoney departed from the script and used the profanity "goddamn," it went out over the air, despite a five-second time delay. It was followed by a second or two of dead air, "as though someone were slow on the button," as Broadcasting & Cable observed on its website. The offending word was later removed from the West Coast feed. "It was an unwelcomed adlib," a CBS spokeswoman told the trade publication. The musical Spring Awakening received eight Tony awards, including best musical and best score by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, while the Tom Stoppard drama The Coast of Utopia took seven awards, the most ever handed out for a drama. Ratings for the awards were down 19 percent from a year ago.

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