When they aired Twice Upon a Time, they aired a somewhat-edited version. There was a reason for this, though - the version with profanity (albeit nothing super-bad - it was PG) was NOT approved by the director, and was done after the movie had been finished and test screened (there's an article about it somewhere). When I say "somewhat-edited," I mean that most of the profanity was replaced by the director-approved clean dialogue, but a few instances remained.
I know of incident where TCM was mistakenly given a TV version of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice by the studio. They rectified the situation by re-airing the unedited version at a later date. I've never known them to edit a movie before, though (aside from showing theatrical cuts instead of director's cuts, as they did with Spielberg's 1941 - I thought that was particularly bad, since Spielberg was unhappy with the studio's edits; they definitely didn't censor that movie, though, I will tell you that!)
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mobocracy (869)
3 years ago
There might be other reasons. I suspect over time there have been times where an acceptable broadcast master from a technical perspective was one that had been edited later, especially in the mid-2000s during the transition from SD to HD.
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