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===Controversy=== In 2005, some members of Vancouver's [[Indo-Canadian]] community accused the station of racial insensitivity. They objected to 96.9 Jack-FM's advertising strategy.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.voiceonline.com/voice/050402/headline2.php# |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524113924/http://www.voiceonline.com/voice/050402/headline2.php# |archive-date=2006-05-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>http://www.voiceonline.com/voice/050416/headline7.php{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The ads in question featured Vijay Chandra, a [[Fiji]]an radio engineer for the station with a strong [[South Asia]]n accent, singing to promote Jack-FM's "Larry and Willy show".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jackfm.com/jacktv/# |title=96.9 jackfm.com<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2006-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902043703/http://www.jackfm.com/jacktv/# |archive-date=2006-09-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The complaints stemmed from a perception that viewers are intended to laugh at Chandra's accent, rather than at the ad copy itself, and that similar lyrics performed without an accent would not be considered humorous.
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