I was Wrong ..Cole was right
Why is there so many FotH cut-aways?
It's not just to torment us, but I really wish the guy that throws the switch had to listen to the music or beep that we hear. The HGs are prone to singing and humming. CBS can not broadcast any music. Why? This is going on live, they guy on the switch is a technician not a lawyer. His instructions are: "if in doubt, cut it out." Even if they had a lawyer sitting next to him, if a HG started to sing something they made-up themselves, a lawyer would have to check to see if it's an obscure song, or something published and copyrighted. There's no time for research when it's live. It's not even a matter of CBS being cheap. If a HG sang a song owned by an individual, once the song is broadcast, even by internet, they could be forced to pay whatever the owner insists on, so if in doubt, cut it out. Other material blocked out are negative references to people outside the house. If a HG were to say, "John Doe" is a pedophile," John Doe could sue both the HG and CBS for slander. To preserve the integrity of the show, the HGs are not supposed to discuss the BB staff, or discuss what's been said in the DR. Of course they block out a lot of the competitions so you'll watch the TV, but we always know the results because the HGs talk about the games and the results. It's easy to paste together a pretty good picture of what happened.
