{"id":351226,"date":"2025-12-16T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351226\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:20:07","slug":"milton-keynes-radio-station-cleared-over-swearing-played-on-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351226\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Keynes radio station cleared over swearing played on loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Horizon&#8217;s managing director heard the broadcast whilst driving and immediately tried to get the transmission stopped, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ofcom said there was evidence that the transmission provider was asked to turn off the Horizon Radio service on DAB at 18:32 BST and again at 18:43, at 18:44 and twice at 18:47. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The correct service was restored at 18:50 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its ruling, Ofcom said Horizon Radio took swift action to stop the incorrect stream from being broadcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also made an apology shortly after the incident, and it contacted the regulator to inform it about the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ofcom concluded it did &#8220;everything in its control to minimise the impact of this incident&#8221; and the matter was now resolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Horizon Radio said its technical manager now maintained all its streaming output and it no longer used the services of third-party stream providers, nor would it in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Horizon&#8217;s managing director heard the broadcast whilst driving and immediately tried to get the transmission stopped, the report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-351226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}