CBS Radio Show Hosts Suspended After Phone Prank

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CBS RADIO SHOW HOSTS SUSPENDED AFTER PHONE PRANK
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Jacques Steinberg]
CBS Radio suspended two hosts from an FM station in New York City yesterday after an Asian-American advocacy organization complained about the broadcast of a six-minute prank phone call to a Chinese restaurant that was peppered with ethnic and sexual slurs. The call was first played on “The Dog House With JV and Elvis,” a mid-morning show on WFNY, on April 5, the day after Don Imus made his comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team on WFAN, another CBS-owned station. The call was then replayed on “The Dog House” on Thursday, a week after Mr. Imus was fired by CBS Radio.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/arts/24radi.html
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CBS Radio Show Hosts Suspended After Phone Prank