SINGAPORE (AP) -- Singapore's media regulator says it will fine a local radio broadcaster for holding an "exploitative and inappropriate" contest in which female talk show guests were asked to remove their bras on-air.
MediaCorp Radio will be fined 15,000 Singapore dollars (U.S.$9,800) for contravening a broadcast code in a March radio segment that challenged a group of women to take their bras off from under their clothes in the shortest possible time, the Media Development Authority said in a statement Monday.
The women, who were in the studio, were asked to remove their bras from under their clothes, hold their bras up and pose for a video camera recording the event to be posted on the broadcaster's Web site and video-sharing site YouTube, according to the statement.
"The broadcasting of such a contest, requiring the removal of bras by young women, has a negative influence on young impressionable listeners," the statement said.
The media regulator said the radio show's hosts made sexually suggestive remarks about "how fast the bras were removed, as well as the color, design and cup size of the bras, and the size of the girls' breasts."
"As celebrity figures and role models, DJs wield influence over young listeners, and hence, should conduct themselves in a socially responsible manner," the statement said.
Singapore has in recent years relaxed censorship regulations for some films and plays, in an effort to loosen up and market the modern and wealthy city as a media and arts center. But controls remain tight in the conservative island nation.
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