Raleigh, NC NBC affiliate WRAL took some heat Sunday for censoring several parts of Saturday Night Live host Dave Chappelle. The station is now apologizing, TVSpy reports.
“We apologize for impeding the full flow and message of Dave Chappelle’s monologue,” GM Steve Hammel wrote on the station’s website Sunday. “It was not our intention to censor his message. We followed policies and procedures that have been in place for many years for programming of any kind. This is an opportunity for us to review those policies and procedures. We will, and will consider viewer input as we do that.”
WRAL has only been the NBC affiliate since April. The station was a CBS affiliate for the previous 30 years. As we reported yesterday, SNL with host Dave Chappelle, had its most watched show since Donald Trump hosted a year ago.