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Media
Rinse FM criticised for sweary songs in daytime
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 5 July 2011
Ah, you see, you go from being a pirate radio station to being a legit community broadcaster and not only do you have to start filling out forms for media regulator OfCom and paying money to rights owners for the music you play, you have to stop saying ‘fuck’ in prime time.
OfCom has upheld a complaint against Rinse FM after it received a complaint from a parent that said her twelve year old son had been exposed to five uses of the ‘f’ word in songs played between 2pm and 5pm one afternoon in March.
Rinse FM apologised for playing the sweary songs in daytime, and stressed that the incident occurred in the early days of the station’s legit broadcasts, and that new systems at the organisation would stop it from happening again.
Nevertheless, OfCom said the community station had breached its rules and upheld the complaint. I’m not sure what that means. Possibly someone from OfCom goes round and tells bosses to “sort the fuck out” in a loud angry voice.