Radio hauled up for obscene programmes in China

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Posted: 2008-02-20 14:41:38+05:30 IST
Updated: Feb 20, 2008 at 1500 hrs IST

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Beijing, February 20:: China's broadcast regulator has hauled up a local radio station for airing ‘obscene’ programmes despite an earlier ban on them and asked it to punish officials responsible for it.

The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) said it had banned 13 local radio stations from broadcasting "sexually suggestive" programmes but Guizhou Radio Station (GRS) renamed the offensive content and broadcast the same.

"The GRS programmes have willfully played on sex life and sex experience and excessively exaggerated functions of sex-enhancement drugs," SARFT said in a circular, according to official Xinhua news agency.

The regulator also censured the Guizhou Provincial Administration of Radio, Film and Television for inadequate supervision of local broadcasting stations.

SARFT issued circulars in July and September last year, banning radio and TV commercials and programmes involving drugs, sex-related health supplements, drugs for sexually transmitted diseases, sex toys and "vulgar" ads for breast enhancement and female underwear.

It had ordered local broadcasting administrations to follow the rules and strictly supervise local stations.

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