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Sign in the on-air broadcast studio of listener-sponsored radio station WBAI 99.5 FM NY.
Brooklyn, NY
Jack Shalom
Musings, Memories, and Magic
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Sign in the on-air broadcast studio of listener-sponsored radio station WBAI 99.5 FM NY.
Brooklyn, NY
George Carlan’s words you cannot us on air?
Yep, broadcasting George Carlin’s routine about those famous seven words got radio station WBAI into big trouble: they lost a Supreme Court Case by a 5-4 decision—hence the sign. When Carlin was on the station subsequently, he was the only one to whom they didn’t have to explain what the “Carlin Warning” was, since it was named after him.
Here’s an article about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/nyregion/25wbai.html?_r=0