Mormon Station Refuses NBC's 'The Playboy Club'

Second time church-owned affiliate dumps a series

NBC won’t take the wraps off The Playboy Club until September, but the stylish drama has already been dumped by one affiliate.

According to Mark Willes, the president and CEO of KSL-TV, NBC’s Salt Lake City affiliate, the station will not air The Playboy Club this fall. The reluctance to carry the show has less to do with concerns about any explicit content than the associations inherent in the Playboy brand itself.

“The Playboy brand is known internationally,” Willes said in a statement.

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