False Confessions Controversy
During February 2008, WSNX's program "Puddin' Playhouse" gave away tickets to a Kanye West concert as presents for Valentine's Day through a contest called "False Confessions". In the contest, callers had to make prank calls to family members and make fake confessions to them (for example, one girl had to admit to her grandmother that she was a lesbian). If the caller could get the family member to say "I still love you", the caller would receive the tickets.
One caller was told she would win the tickets if she could (falsely) tell her husband that he was not actually the father of their 9-year-old son. During the call, the husband let slip that he had been having an affair with the caller's sister. This caused a large amount of outrage among the show's listeners and at least one person reportedly threatened to sue the radio station over it. However, no lawsuit took place and the Puddin' Playhouse program continued until its host Justin Barclay left the station in December 2009 for WDZH "AMP Radio" in Detroit.
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