Reuters Canada reports: "French President Jacques Chirac took a call from Canada's newly elected leader only to find he had been fooled by a pair of radio pranksters known as the "Masked Avengers" in Montreal...after swapping diplomatic niceties during a lengthy chat, Marc-Antoine Audette of CKOI radio -- Canada's most popular station with over a million listeners -- let the 73-year-old Chirac in on the joke." More...
This prank is reminiscent of the 2003 phone call Miami morning team Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero. The DJs, from spanish-formatted WXDJ-FM, placed a phone call to the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. The F.C.C. fined them later.
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This prank is reminiscent of the 2003 phone call Miami morning team Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero. The DJs, from spanish-formatted WXDJ-FM, placed a phone call to the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. The F.C.C. fined them later.
More: A Chronology of Some Classic Radio Hoaxes
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