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Peter Moore on Ross Revenge A RADIO station got in trouble after it played a song containing sexually suggestive material – at 8am. Caroline Community Radio 97.4FM, broadcast from Burnham, was pulled up by watchdogs Ofcom after it played the song containing prolonged sounds of a woman moaning during the station’s morning programming, breaching Rule 1.3 of the Broadcasting Code. The investigation was launched after concerns children may have heard the broadcast on the school run. The original Radio Caroline was often in deep water as a pirate radio station in the 1960s. The song in question was club tune French Kiss by L il Louis which contained a section which a woman can be heard moaning for more than two minutes.
Peter Moore on Ross Revenge A RADIO station got in trouble after it played a song containing sexually suggestive material – at 8am. Caroline Community Radio 97.4FM, broadcast from Burnham, was pulled up by watchdogs Ofcom after it played the song containing prolonged sounds of a woman moaning during the station’s morning programming, breaching Rule 1.3 of the Broadcasting Code. The investigation was launched after concerns children may have heard the broadcast on the school run. The original Radio Caroline was often in deep water as a pirate radio station in the 1960s. The song in question was club tune French Kiss by L il Louis which contained a section which a woman can be heard moaning for more than two minutes.
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image captionCaroline Community Radio broadcast the track at 08:20
A radio station that played a song containing prolonged sounds of sexual moaning at breakfast time breached the broadcasting code, a watchdog ruled.
Caroline Community Radio played French Kiss by Lil Louis on 17 December at a time when children were particularly likely to be listening , Ofcom said.
The communications regulator said the song was not appropriately scheduled .
Ofcom s report said the Essex-based station s licensee confirmed it was undertaking a review of its database .
The regulator said the song, which reached number two in the UK charts in 1989, contained no lyrics but included prolonged sounds of sexual moaning lasting two minutes and 20 seconds .
Ofcom said Caroline Community Radio was in breach of the broadcasting code
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A radio station which played a song with prolonged sounds of sexual moaning at 8.20am has been told it breached broadcasting rules.
Communications regulator Ofcom said French Kiss by Lil Louis was not appropriately scheduled when it was played at a time when children were particularly likely to be listening to the radio by Caroline Community Radio.
The track contained no lyrics but included prolonged sounds of sexual moaning lasting two minutes and 20 seconds .
The Essex station s licensee said it had been in the process of transferring its music library from one computer system to another.