Radio stations adopt certain in-house strategies in censoring musical works which have offensive contents while a song is being played or before the song goes on air. A basic strategy of censorship or musical content regulation adopted by radio stations is radio edit. Radio edit refers to in-house modification of a song by radio stations to make the song suitable for airplay. The modified version is called radio edit. Among the in-house strategies used by radio stations to in censoring musical works are as follows;
Blanking
Silencing the volume of a song where an offensive word or phrase is mentioned
Bleeping
Using a “beep” sound to replace an offensive part of a song
Resampling
Using a portion of a song that sounds similar to an offensive part to replace the offensive word or phrase
Resinging
Using a more appropriate word or phrase in place of the offensive one
Backmasking
Reversing the audio or vocal track of an offensive word or the offensive portion of a song
Repeating
The word that preceded the offensive word could be repeated to prevent the audience from hearing the offensive word
Skipping
This has to with deleting the offensive word from the song without leaving a tune gap for the listeners to notice a time delay
Disc scratching
The offensive word or phrase is scratched, made to sound like another word or made faster or slower
Robovoicing
Using a robotic voice effect to make an offensive word difficult to understand
Distorting
Distorting the sound of an offensive word by bringing down the pitch
