CBSC slaps Blundell again; station has 30 days to explain how it will halt code breaches

OTTAWA – The hosts of CFNY-FM’s Dean Blundell Show have received their second ruling from the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council in less than a month for breaching private broadcasters’ codes, and now the council says the station must clean up the program in order to remain a member of the CBSC. Today’s decision pertained to comments made on the morning show on January 17, when hosts Dean Blundell and Todd Shapiro discussed a U.S. news story about a 17-year-old male who died after accidentally getting stuck upside down inside a rolled-up gym mat at his high school. The CBSC described the...