Toronto Radio: Dean Blundell Show Cancelled At The Edge

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The Dean Blundell Show, a popular Toronto shock-jock morning radio program, has been cancelled, Corus Entertainment announced Monday, according to Metro News.

The show had been indefinitely suspended in early December after a Torstar News Service article exposed the program’s homophobic commentary about a sexual assault trial for which the show’s producer and co-host served as jury foreman.

“With the start of the new year, Corus Radio will be taking CFNY 102.1 FM the Edge in a new direction in 2014. The station will return to a more music-based format showcasing the best in modern rock,” Dave Farough, the general manager of Corus Radio, said in a statement posted on 102.1 the Edge’s website.

The show’s co-host and program producer Derek Welsman served as foreman of a jury that convicted a man for sexually assaulting three men he met at a bathhouse.

At the beginning of the trial, Welsman swore on a Bible and told a court he had no bias against homosexuals.

On air, he and the other radio personalities mocked gay men who visit bathhouses and the intelligence of the assault victims. They snickered as they imagined the perpetrator’s excitement about prison showers.

Kathryn Wells, lawyer for the convicted man, told the court Welsman’s on-air conduct “made a mockery” of the trial and tainted the guilty verdict that he, as jury foreman, read aloud on Sept. 27.

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