The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / CBC Examines Why Long Running CIUT-FM Show Was Cancelled After 35 Yrs.

**Posted by RadioActive** July 30, 2025 6:39 am

The show was about hip hop music and had been running under two different titles for a total of 35 years. And then, it suddenly disappeared from Toronto's CIUT-FM. What happened? The main reason seems to be violations of CRTC rules, including excessive profanity and misogyny, threatened the entire station.

The statement from a CIUT exec. is quite extraordinary.

You can read it here.

**Posted by DOPEfm** July 30, 2025 9:09 am

Thanks for posting this story.

This show was one of the motivating and main reasons I continue programming DOPEfm, since 2004.

**Posted by Evuguy** July 30, 2025 10:01 pm

I think it's a policy that really needs to be reviewed by the CRTC. It's no longer making sense that legacy broadcast TV and radio have to adhere to a set of standards that streaming mediums do not. In the case of Rap/Hip-Hop, some of these songs end up sounding ridiculous when played on the radio, since so many words in the song have to be dropped as they don't fit within the CBSC guidelines. And we wonder why the medium struggles with retaining younger listeners? They can easily download the unedited versions of these songs or watch and listen to them unedited on YouTube - no sign in (proof of age) needed. Even Stingray's 'Vibe' channel plays the unedited versions, with plenty of visuals to go with it. I assume they are allowed to do this as they are licensed as a specialty channel, plus, they do post content warnings on the top of the hour. CIUT's station manager did the right thing in dropping the show in order to comply with their broadcast license, but he really had no choice. It puts them at a disadvantage, IMHO.

**Posted by The Weed** July 31, 2025 2:35 pm

I took away from the article that it was the announcer's constant use of profanity and misogyny that was the reason the show was cancelled to protect CIUT's broadcast license, not necessarily the music's content.

**Posted by Chrisphen** July 31, 2025 4:51 pm

The Weed wrote:
I took away from the article that it was the announcer's constant use of profanity and misogyny that was the reason the show was cancelled to protect CIUT's broadcast license, not necessarily the music's content.

And that it was broadcast before 22:00, no less.

**Posted by Saul** July 31, 2025 5:20 pm

Was anyone from the station actually listening to the show over the years? How would the host not get a warning if it was an ongoing issue?

**Posted by The Weed** July 31, 2025 7:40 pm

Saul wrote:
Was anyone from the station actually listening to the show over the years? How would the host not get a warning if it was an ongoing issue?

From the article (Ken Stowar, a Station Manager & Program Director) "It was brought to my attention by a CIUT listener that they heard what they described as unacceptable language, etc. being broadcast on Generation Next on Saturday, May 10th. We then followed the process as we always do when we get an informal or formal complaint to determine if there was any validity to the accusation. What we discovered was an excessive amount of profanity along with misogynist messaging. To find out if this was an anomaly or not we began the exercise of auditing previous shows aired before May 10th where we discovered an identical pattern of excessive profanity and misogyny. Due to time constraints due to fundraising demands the May 17th and May 24th Generation Next radio programs subsequently aired and as we later learned with the same extreme foul language and misogyny; therefore relinquishing any possibility of any warning to Philip."