Radio / Television News

Radio show’s “stereotypical, degrading” comments about women crossed the line, says CBSC

OTTAWA – Negative comments about women made on a Toronto radio morning show violated broadcasting codes, however, a discussion about culling cats did not, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has ruled. The CBSC investigated two complaints made about the Dean Blundell Show broadcast on CFNY-FM (102.1 The Edge, Toronto).  The show features songs, news and banter between Blundell and his co-hosts.  A listener complained about an episode where the hosts talked about women, laughed at their female co-worker for suggesting that men and women are equal, and joked that women should keep their mouths closed and do chores. They went on to describe...