Toronto’s popular shock-jock morning radio program, The Dean Blundell Show, has been suspended.

The announcement comes just a day after the program apologized for making “homophobic” jokes about a sexual assault trial for which the show’s producer and co-host served as jury foreman.

“Effective immediately, we are suspending The Dean Blundell Show. This will allow us to review our internal practices to ensure that our programming is compliant with our station’s policies, as well as community and broadcast standards,” read a statement for Corus Entertainment, the company that owns 102.1 the Edge, on which Blundell airs.

A Sunday Star article exposed the show’s homophobic commentary about a trial on which co-host and program producer Derek Welsman served as foreman of a jury that convicted a man for sexually assaulting three men he met at a Toronto bathhouse.

At the beginning of the trial, Welsman swore on a Bible and told a court he had no bias against homosexuals.

On air, he and the other radio personalities guffawed as they mocked gay men who visit bathhouses and the intelligence of the sex-assault victims. They snickered as they imagined the perpetrator’s excitement for prison showers.

“If anyone wants to get into the backdoor business, I can give you some tips,” said foreman Welsman, prompting more laughter from his on-air colleagues.

Kathryn Wells, lawyer for the convicted man, told the court Welsman’s on-air conduct “made a mockery” of the court proceedings and tainted the guilty verdict that he, as jury foreman, read aloud Sept. 27.

Wells had asked the trial judge to order an inquiry into the conduct of Welsman, who she says is biased against gay men.

On Tuesday, Justice Faye McWatt rejected the call for an inquiry. Her ruling did not address whether Welsman’s homophobic radio conduct affected the decisions he made as a juror but instead focused on whether any of the broadcasts could have influenced other members of the jury who, unanimously, found the accused, Joshua Dowholis, guilty on nearly all counts.

A day after the judge’s ruling, the show’s host apologized for his and his co-host’s on-air conduct.

“We both made rude, homophobic and inappropriate remarks, which were offensive and unacceptable. We offended a lot of listeners, our families and our friends,” Dean Blundell said in an audio clip posted to the show’s website Wednesday.

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“Those conversations were not entertaining. They were plain and simply wrong. For this, I sincerely apologize.”

The Dean Blundell Show has been repeatedly sanctioned for homophobic and discriminatory views, the most recent censure coming in August. In that case, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council required the radio station to submit a plan outlining how it will “ensure that no other breaches” occur in its broadcasts.