Today's F.C.C. ruling, coupled with the iBiquity technology, gives regulators a way to support digital radio without the controversy that seems to come with any effort to reallocate portions of the broadcasting spectrum.
In its short history the trust has dealt with enough scandals and unlikely storylines to fill a soap opera, including the Crowngate saga, a string of TV and radio fakery scandals, controversy over BBC stars' pay, internal revolt over job cuts, attacks on the licence fee and the biggest crisis of them all – "Sachsgate".
The Giants were engulfed by controversy, from radio and television reports to newspaper and Internet articles.
Responding to the controversy on Radio 4's Today Programme he said a similar ban operated in the US, and that the NHS could not afford to treat people with life threatening diseases.
Rampling, who has been nominated for an Evening Standard award and an Oscar for best actress for her role in 45 Years, declared on French radio that the diversity controversy was "racist to whites".
Morris, who gained a reputation for hoaxing celebrities into talking nonsense, such as his fictitious drug, "cake", had previously caused controversy on Radio 1 for persuading MPs to comment on the fictitious death of Michael Heseltine.
The programme was produced by an upstart TV network which stepped in after a Toronto radio station, tired of controversy, cancelled the duo's regular Sunday talk show on November 8th.There is nonetheless bound to be lots of Ford material on television in the weeks ahead.
Their first single, a song about a kleptomaniac transvestite titled "Arnold Layne", was released on 11 March to mild controversy, as Radio London refused to air it.
As a radio host, the marriage controversy proved to be a compelling run of events for Williams and her viewers: "I was on fire on the radio at the time that that happened," she told me.
Black talk radio has not been without controversy over some of its content.
