A Quebec FM radio station that had its broadcast license pulled by Canada's broadcast watchdog for its Howard Stern-style morning show on Thursday began a legal appeal to stay on air. "Never before in the history of the world, except in totalitarian states, has a radio station been closed, based on its use of words or verbal content. This is pure and simple censorship," Guy Bertrand, a lawyer representing Genex Communications, the operator of Quebec City station CHOI-FM, told the Federal Court of Appeals in his opening brief. Genex' challenge of a July 2004 decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission not to renew the CHOI-FM license has implications for Canadian broadcast standards, which traditionally have been more stringent than U.S. limits on free speech.
- 5/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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