{"id":194273,"date":"2025-12-16T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194273\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:06:07","slug":"milton-keynes-radio-station-cleared-over-swearing-played-on-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194273\/","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":194274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-194273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}