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Clear Channel Cans Atlanta Radio DJs Over Sex Comments

Dateline: 04/10/04

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Clear Channel Communications, Inc. continues to enforce its "zero tolerance" policy against the company's employed DJs and hosts who broadcast indecent material.

Clear Channel, which owns over 1200 radio stations, has fired Larry Wachs and Eric Von Haessler, known as "The Regular Guys", from WKLS-FM, also known as 96 Rock, Atlanta.

On March 19, 2004, the duo allowed a sexual conversation between themselves and a porn star to inadvertently air during a commercial break.

The DJs were going to record the conversation and edit it for airing at a later time.

Wachs and Von Haessler thought their microphone was off but, in reality it turned out to be on and the conversation aired unedited.

Due to Clear Channel's "zero tolerance" policy, "Bubba The Love Sponge" was fired in late February of this year and just this past week, the company announced that Howard Stern had been officially dropped from 6 of the chains's radio stations where his program had been airing.

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