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Article: Stern offends Canadians. (Canadian Broadcast Standards Council issues report citing breaches of their standards by morning radio host Howard Stern)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- November 17, 1997
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In the loudest controversy in Canadian radio in years, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) last week issued an 86-page decision that found that "every daily program" of the Howard Stern Show monitored over a two-week period "breached" the voluntary program standards of the CBSC's broadcaster members. Eventually, the CBSC's action could lead to cancellation of the show in Montreal and Toronto, despite the American shock jock's high ratings in both markets.
More than 1,100 complaints have been noted by the CBSC since the Stem morning program premiered in September on CHOM-FM Montreal and CILQ-FM Toronto. The decision by the CBSC--a nongovernmental ...