1993-2001 In 1993, production of The Lone Shark began having trouble with the WFAC-TV station management when a new station rule required that the tapes of all programs that were to be broadcast from the WFAC-TV facilities had to be submitted by station management for review two weeks prior to each programs' broadcast date. This rule was one of many enacted by station management during The Lone Shark's ten years on television to try to control the content of some shows which they believed were pushing the limits of what the station management considered to be "good taste". Jim Sharky and Sean Haffner saw this two-week gap as a major hindrance to The Lone Shark. Because a majority of the topics discussed on The Lone Shark had to do with that day's or that week's news, the topics would lose meaning or topicality if they were not viewed within a few days of the program's taping. To get around this two-week gap between taping the program and broadcasting it, the Producers decided to broadcast the program live. This move again allowed The Lone Shark to take live phone calls from viewers. The interaction between Sharky, Haffner and the viewers helped to build a regular audience who watched and called the program every week. The viewer phone calls also gave the program even more material to use in each episode. Therefore, Sharky and Haffner could produce entire episodes based solely on using viewer phonecalls to fill the program's 30 minutes. Although the official name of the program was still ″The Lone Shark″, Sharky and Haffner often referred to the program as ″Lone Shark Live″. This name was a conjunction of the phrase ”The Lone Shark – Live”, which Sharky and Haffner would quickly rattle-off as they answered viewer phone calls or whenever they spoke about the program during the broadcast of a live episode. Because the WFAC-TV broadcast facilities had no broadcast delay, the program aired totally uncensored. Except for rare occasions when studio time could not be scheduled to coincide with The Lone Shark’s broadcast time slot, this live format was the standard program format until 2001, when this method of broadcasting the program (live and uncensored) led to the permanent suspension of The Lone Shark and its producers. The Sharky & Sean Show – 1999 WFAC-TV regulations required producers to sign up for their broadcast time slot every 13