THE BUZZ.

Pressure is building on two Canadian radio stations to either clean up or drop ``The Howard Stern Show'' from their morning lineup.

Radio stations Q-107 in Toronto and CHOM-FM in Montreal face a Dec. 10 deadline to remove offending sex stereotype and code of ethics violations from ``The Howard Stern Show,'' or close the shock jock down north of the border.

Ian Morrison, a spokesman for the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, a lobby group representing 40,000 Canadian radio and TV consumers, on Monday urged Canada's broadcast regulator to remove the licenses of Q-107 and CHOM-FM, which have aired the Stern broadcasts since September.

``Lifting a few licenses would discipline the whole system,'' Morrison told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission during hearings in Ottawa.

The call follows the Ontario and Quebec councils of the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council on Nov. 11 ruling that Howard Stern's radio show breached voluntary Canadian radio industry codes on ethics and sex-role portrayal.

Both radio stations have until Dec. 10 to tell the CSBC how they will curb the industry code breaches.

Another Diana disc: With recordings by everyone from Luciano Pavarotti to Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney to Queen, a new musical tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, was released on Monday in Britain. The album, ``Diana, Princess of Wales - Tribute,'' is expected to top the charts. The Princess' Memorial Fund will benefit from the sales. The fund has already taken in at least $48 million from Elton John's reworked single, ``Candle in the Wind,'' which he sang at her funeral.

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