Sabras Radio found in breach of Ofcom regulations due to “offensive” content
Leicester based station, Sabras Radio has been pulled up by Ofcom for broadcasting content deemed offensive to listeners.
Ofcom received a complaint about the use of offensive language in the Sunday night ‘Urban Asian’ show in June 2022. It was during the music tracks “Gangsta” by Karan Aujla ft YG and ‘Chauffeur’ by Diljit Dosanjh, Tory Lanez and Ikky. The tracks contained multiple instances of offensive language, including 16 uses of the word “ni**a” in the song ‘Chaffeur’ (which featured a mixture of Punjabi and English lyrics), two uses of the word “motherf***r” and one use of the word “ni**a” in the track ‘Gangsta’.
Sabras Radio apologised for the material broadcast. It stated that the programme Urban Asian was “relatively new and presented by a newly trained presenter”. It went on to say that around the time of broadcast, there was a “generally disturbing environment” in the urban Asian artist scene, resulting from the death of a famous young artist in India. As such, Sabras Radio said that was an “implosion of politically sensitive songs which did not fit any genres”.
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Sabras Radio added that it had “suspended the programme with immediate effect” and has also “suspended the presenter from any presentation work until a further review”. It concluded by saying that it is “confident that this action will ensure that there is no repetition of breaching any Ofcom codes in the future” and that this a “very rare breach” by Sabras Radio for which it has taken “very stern corrective action”.
Ofcom’s decision is that the broadcast of the most offensive language, including racially offensive language, in this programme was not justified by the context and was in breach of Rule 2.3.
