Original story is here

Rediff claims that ” Star and Bucwild, the hosts of a popular morning radio show in the United States, were suspended by their station for making an abusive and threatening call to a call centre employee in India.

Power 99 FM in Philadelphia told rediff.com that it suspended the duo for a day, January 12, after receiving an unprecedented number of protest emails.” The whole article can be read here. Times of India and Philadelphia Weekly also cover the story.

The Station has also posted an apology. It is hard to find out the apology on their homepage as it is written such that, it doesn’t appear as an important issue. So you might need to scroll down to read it and if it is removed by the time you checkout the site….here is the apology in text
“The Star & Buc Wild Show prides itself on walking on the edge. On December 15th, we crossed it. We know the pain racial slurs cause and apologize that this comedy segment went too far.”
and here is the graphic.

The RJs got 1 day’s suspension……is it enough? I don’t think that they will be fired (but they should be) but they definetly should apologize on live radio as they played the clip on the live radio and not their website. (I dunno if they or anybody else on their behalf apologized on radio yet? - If someone knows about it then plss let me know.)

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