This whole Imus/Shock Radio thing.

[Donna Halper]

At 07:10 PM 4/15/2007, Richard Chonak wrote:
>Donna Halper wrote:
>
>>After years of assorted people complaining, the FCC finally acted-- 
>>in 1941 (!) they took the radio priest off the air.
>
>I wouldn't be too sure about that date.   The materials I'm finding 
>on the net about the Canadian-born priest vary in details; one 
>version, citing Coughlin's magazine, says he was already off the air 
>in 1939, after actions by the FCC and the NAB.

Individual stations began dropping him in the late 30s, but according 
to the NY Times, Washington Post and other clippings that I am 
looking at even as we speak, it wasn't till the US officially entered 
WW2 that he was barred from his broadcasts, partly as a result of the 
Catholic Church finally speaking up, partly due to endless complaints 
to the FCC.