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Submitted: May 7, 2012 - 9:14pm
Originally published: May 7, 2012
Last updated: May 7, 2012 - 9:57pm
Originally published: May 7, 2012
Last updated: May 7, 2012 - 9:57pm
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Reuters
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Jill Serjeant
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Parents Television Council, 707 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90017, United States
A television watchdog group has urged advertisers to boycott hit TV show "America's Got Talent", saying the addition of shock jock Howard Stern to the panel of judges will "likely result in a sharp increase in explicit content." A week before Stern makes his debut on the NBC show, the Parents Television Council (PTC) said it had written to 91 companies who have previously run commercials or sponsored "America's Got Talent" asking them to place their ads elsewhere. The PTC said Stern, a radio DJ with satellite broadcaster SiriusXM, has a reputation for "sleaze and misogyny" and a "decades-long penchant for profanity."
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