Radio / Television News

“Sexy girls” shouldn’t be jiggling on mid-afternoon TV, says CBSC

OTTAWA – A telephone sex line infomercial should not have aired at 3:30 in the afternoon, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said today The CBSC Ontario Regional Panel concluded that the 3:30 pm broadcast of this infomercial on Toronto's Sun TV violated Clause 10 (Television Broadcasting) of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics. The infomercial was for a telephone sex line called Canadates. It featured "young women in bikinis and high heels shown either individually or in groups, lying on a bed in provocative poses and making alluring facial expressions," says the CBSC release. There were also...