Ay, caramba! Spanish-language radio stations filled with raunch

Alameda Times-Star ^ | Monday, August 30, 2004 | Agustin Gurza, Los Angeles Times

[Willie Green]

LOS ANGELES -- LURID talk with guests and callers about sex acts. Scatological references complete with occasional sound effects. Derisive jokes about homosexuals.

Is it Howard Stern on late-night cable? No, this is Spanish-language radio in Los Angeles, "in flagrante" and in broad daylight.

While the nation's guardians of public decency have been focusing attention on the exposed breast of Janet Jackson, Latino DJs have been carrying on with raunchy talk-radio shows that sometimes out-shock Stern. But unlike the public fuss made over Stern and the Jackson incident during the Super Bowl, daytime indecency on Spanish-language radio has developed mostly under the radar of mainstream moral monitors.

Spanish-language shock jocks are getting away with it, critics say, because of the language barrier and cultural differences: The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees the airwaves, employs only two Spanish-speaking investigators to deal with 705 Spanish radio and TV outlets in the United States. What's more, recent immigrants, a target audience for Spanish-language radio, are not as likely to file government complaints.....

[mlbford2]

I watch Telemundo for my soft porn fix.

[maestro]

Talk about drugs forbidden.......?

/sarcasm

[sgtbono2002]

I dont Hablo, so I wouldnt know if it was raunchy or not. That and PC is probably what is letting them get away with it.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Derisive jokes about homosexuals?

Lions and tigers and bears? Oh my!

This will be sweet - it's the head-on collision of liberal, Hispanic immigrant loving politically correct thinkers with a foreign culture that just doesn't like homosexuality. Have at each other!

[maestro]

This will be sweet - it's the head-on collision of liberal, Hispanic immigrant loving politically correct thinkers with a foreign culture that just doesn't like homosexuality. Have at each other!

Brazil?

[dfwgator]

I watch Telemundo for my soft porn fix.

And now their novelas even have English subtitles...que bueno.

[Blue Screen of Death]

This will be sweet - it's the head-on collision of liberal, Hispanic immigrant loving politically correct thinkers with a foreign culture that just doesn't like homosexuality. Have at each other!

Hispanic culture is not exactly feminist friendly either.

[Prince Caspian]

I watch Telemundo for my soft porn fix.

Boy, isn't that the truth. Whenever I go by that channel on my way to somewhere else, there are always scantily-clad women bouncing around and yucking it up over something or other. Everyone seems to be having a good time.

[ml/nj]

Ay, caramba

I bet on that pig Saturday at Saratoga.
(He ran 6th.)

ML/NJ

[Renegade]

This is prevalent on television also . One day I had one of my sixth grade students ( Spanish) interpreting the Univision station for me. He was rolling along and suddenly got a funny expression on his face and stopped . i asked him what the problem was and he said ' I can't tell you what they said ." I asked if it was in bad taste and he said yes ..

[Malesherbes]

Ah, machismo!

[BurbankKarl]

has that new series started?

[snopercod]

The wife and I never miss Sabado Gigante on Univision every Saturday.

[LibertyGirl77]

That show is hilarious.

[LibertyGirl77]

"Isn't it appalling that we allow this to happen?" asks U.S. Rep. Joe Baca, D-San Bernardino, co-chairman of the Congressional Sex and Violence in the Media Caucus. "Whether in English or in Spanish, they should be monitored and should be controlled."

Fascist.

[Pappy Smear]

I basically speak no Spanish, can sorta read it, and sorta understand it, but I love Sabado Gigante too. Always seems to be something funny going on, even if I can't always figure out what is being said.

I am a Univision stockholder too, make sure you put it in your ratings diary if you are watching! Oh yeah, I am in absolute love with Giselle of Despierta America in the mornings.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

I tune in for the weather. Scorchio! :-)

[BlueLancer]

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