99% Invisible

Bleep!

Aug 23, 2022

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The Bleap Tone

01:32

The Bleap Button Is Better Than the Profanity

03:08

The Bleat Button Is America's Super Ego

01:27

Introduction

2min

The One Killherts Tone on Radio and Television

2min

Radio Stations and Birth Control

3min

The Bleap Button

2min

The Bleap Tone

2min

The Bleap Is Good in So Far as It Affirms It

2min

The Comedy Bleap

3min

The Bleap Button Is Better Than the Profanity

3min

The Bleat Button Is America's Super Ego

1min

10.

Getting Life Insurance Quotes With T Mobiles

5min

11.

The Broadcast Audio Delay Changed Radio Forever

2min

12.

The Dump Is the Thing That Keeps Boardops Awake at Night

2min

13.

The Dump Button Is a Time Stretching Software

2min

14.

Is the Dump Better?

3min

15.

The Bleap for the Texasite Diverge Podcast

3min

There's a particular one-kilohertz tone that is universally understood to be covering up inappropriate words on radio and TV. But there are other options, too, like silence -- so why did this particular *bleep* sound become ubiquitous?

Bleep!

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99% Invisible

Bleep!

The Bleap Tone

The Bleap Button Is Better Than the Profanity

The Bleat Button Is America's Super Ego

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