[quote name=\'melman1\' date=\'Mar 21 2004, 01:21 PM\']I meant, re-tape a response or two without changing the scoring. Isn't that what the infrequent message "Contents of this program, not affecting the outcome of the competition, have been edited" (or words to that effect) meant?[/quote]
Not always possible, either. I recall an instance on SP in which the contestant was bleeped (including obscuring her mouth, so you couldn't read her lips) while giving a clue for the word "Italian", and the celebrity (Paul Kreppel, if memory serves) got it from that clue. How would you fix that, other than to do just what NBC did?
And Gene's announcement that time was something to the effect of "A clue that did not meet NBC's standards was removed and the program edited."