A departing senior manager at Radio Blue Mountains has sent out a resignation letter highlighting a string of embarrassing and offensive incidents broadcast by colleagues at the station.
Some of the content included repeated references to genitalia and bodily functions.
Other incidents included playing records at half speed, slurred speech and references to drug use.
RBM's manager of programs, production and training, Paul Cosgrave, said he felt compelled to resign because "presentation, listenership, relevance and financial health ... [were being] compromised by inappropriate on-air content".
It's believed his letter was emailed to some 60 general members of RBM.
The Gazette understands two days before Christmas an "alternative Christmas special" was being broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains [89.1 FM], in the early evening including a song called The Twelve Drugs of Christmas which made reference to needles of heroin being given out. Mr Cosgrave equally had concerns about a song entitled 'Christmas B*** J**'' being played which was made famous by Kevin Bloody Wilson.
The radio station was not aware of the material until some unofficial complaints were made. It was not known how many people tuned in.
"Given the Christmas break and the general pressure on administrative resources, it was mid-February before the program log could be accessed and reviewed," he said.
Mr Cosgrave wrote that while community radio was open to varying opinions: "If anything can be broadcast on an individual's whim simply because s/he decides to call it 'avant garde', this creates a situation whereby anything goes ... I regret that I'm unable to put my own name to this type of content any more."
A sponsor, who asked not to be named, said when they received the email they "looked at it askance".
Fireworks were expected when the belated 2013 Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday at the Carrington but operations manager Geoff Munford said it was decided the matter would be looked at more closely at an upcoming extraordinary meeting with the new executive.
The Gazette understands all RBM presenters have access to a dynamic broadcast handbook showing the criteria for appropriate content, but one presenter described it as "vaguer than it could be".
New president, Hereward Dundas-Taylor, said: "It's been dealt with appropriately" and the new executive would use the experience to make broadcasting requirements "clearer".
"The community and our sponsors can be assured that professional broadcasting standards set in place over the last few years will continue and we plan to improve on this with consultation from the membership," he said.
"No sponsor has cancelled and they enjoy the direction the station has been going the last few years."
Mr Munford said he would recommend the new executive look at a "three strikes and you're out" policy.
"It was an internal matter, the member was suspended [for eight weeks]... if he does it again, he'll be transmitting at midnight," Mr Munford said.
Until recently RBM had a monopoly over the airwaves in the Blue Mountains but is now in a vulnerable position as two new Lithgow-based commercial radio licences were recently issued in the Mountains.