I got this bit (which I edited for brevity) on Google News: CHUM-AM denies banning war songs By JOHN KRYK -- Toronto Sun TORONTO -- Communication breakdown, it's always the same.
In a strange twist, CHUM-AM yesterday denied a story first reported by its sister Web site that it had banned 20 perceived pro-war or anti-war songs from its oldies playlist. The story was posted at about noon Thursday on the CHUM-owned Web site of all-news TV channel CP24, pulse24.com. It was subsequently re-reported by various other media, including The Sun yesterday. "No songs have been banned on 1050 CHUM -- none," Brad Jones, the station's program director, said yesterday. The station yesterday even played at least two of the purported banned songs, including Give Peace A Chance. Jones said pulse24.com's story was the result of a breakdown in communication during an interview between a pulse24.com reporter and CHUM-FM music director Barry Stewart. The reporter asked Stewart which war-themed songs were being pulled. Stewart thought the reporter meant pulled off the shelf for broadcast, whereas the reporter meant pulled from the playlist. Full story at http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusic/mar29_chum-sun.html At 09:29 PM 3/28/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Where did you see this? I just checked their website & >couldn't find anything about it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deb Messling -^..^- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
