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Disc jockeys who were suspended by a radio station
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for concocting an elaborate on-air murder confession apologized to listeners
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Friday.
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Morning radio personalities Kevin Ryder, Gene ``Bean'' Baxter and former
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Arizona radio personality Doug Robert - who now works at the Southern
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California station - were suspended for the incident at KROQ-FM. The duration
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of the suspension wasn't disclosed.
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Ryder and Baxter were heard on a pre-recorded apology aired Friday.
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The disc jockeys were in a meeting with KROQ executives Friday afternoon and
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couldn't be reached. A receptionist who refused to give her name said none of
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the executives was available.
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Officials at the parent company, New York City-based Infinity Broadcasting
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likewise were unavailable, said a secretary for Mel Karmazian, Infinity
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president and chief executive officer.
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The trio was suspended a week after KROQ acknowledged the stunt to the Los
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Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which spent 10 months investigating
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hundreds of called-in leads.
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In Washington, the head of the Federal Communications Commission's
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enforcement division said Friday that similar hoaxes have led to FCC license
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revocations. The KROQ incident was being investigated by the FCC.
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``We are evaluating what action, if any, we should take,'' said Charles E.
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Kelley, adding the station ``could lose its license for this type of incident
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if it was judged by the commission that the incident showed an abdication or a
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loss of control by the station.''
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The Sheriff's Department plans to bill the Burbank station for time spent
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investigating last June's hoax, said sheriff's spokesman Bob Stoneman.
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``I don't even want to guess'' the amount of the bill, Stoneman said.
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KROQ officials were considering further disciplinary action against the disc
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jockeys based upon listeners' responses, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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On Thursday, the station was deluged with hundreds of calls from angry
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listeners and at least one advertiser was threatening to pull its ads.
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The bogus confession was made June 13 during a ``Confess Your Crime'' skit
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in which Ryder and Baxter encouraged listeners to call in and reveal their
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transgressions on the air.
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The caller, who refused to give his name, said:
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``I heard you guys talking. I really need to tell somebody about this.
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``I had this girlfriend for like about six years and we were right on the
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verge of getting married and all of this stuff. And I came home and caught her
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with somebody ... a good friend of mine, as a matter of fact.''
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After some prodding by the disc jockeys, the caller admitted that be had
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badly beaten his girlfriend:
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One disc jockey asked: ``Is there a chance, seriously, that you killed
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her?''
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The caller responded: ``Yeah, I know I did.''
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More than 60 calls and faxes flooded the station shortly after the
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confession aired. Hundreds more phoned authorities after the local news
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agencies and the TV series, ``Unsolved Mysteries'' reported the confession.
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Among the most persistent callers were a mother and father in Northern
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California who are trying to solve the mystery of their daughter's death.
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