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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Wing Bowl snub costs WIP
The Federal Communications Commission has upheld a $4,000 fine against WIP (610) over the 2005 Wing Bowl. Arnie Chapman of Long Island, N.Y., had qualified for the spectacle by eating 28 clementines but was bounced because he runs the Association of Independent Competitive Eaters, a smaller rival of the International Federation of Competitive Eating, which sanctions Wing Bowl. The FCC found that WIP didn't announce contest terms, which now exclude AICE eaters. Lawyers for parent company CBS told the FCC that Chapman had been disqualified in part because he did not reside in the station's listening area - a curious assertion since Sonya Thomas of Virginia came within a bone of beating winner Bill "El Wingador" Simmons that year. A CBS spokeswoman had no comment on the ruling.
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