Nudge the naughty to after 9: CBSC

OTTAWA – A French-language singing competition that contained unedited coarse language violated broadcast codes for airing too early in the evening, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has ruled.The CBSC examined an episode of La Voix, a singing competition program featuring “coaches” from the Quebec music industry who choose singers to form their “teams”. The singers are chosen based on their voices alone; the coaches do not see the contestants before selecting them. An episode that aired on January 15, 2015 at 7:30 PM on CHOT-DT (Gatineau, Quebec) contained three instances of coarse language. The coaches used the words “tabarnac’” and “ʼostie” when...