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anti-motorcyclist morning show

elskipador said:
whoa you post? :twofinger
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Rarely. I try not to, I always end up making trouble without meaning to.

Has this situation been sent to the AMA or anything like that? I was talking to my mom about it and she was like, "Whaaa? Got any lawyers in the group?". (ahh, biker families ... yeah)
 
Hi Everyone.
I have read your Barf every now and again and never realized what a tight community this is. I love it.

I will not say anything about the comment on 105 because everyone here pretty much covered all the points to the situation. Ignorant comment, stupid DJ, should have severe consequences, and, if I see a door open in front of a biker on one of those off days I am forced to be a “cager” because I have to go to Costco… you see where this is going?…

DJ Woody,
You have been convicted of being an ignorant fool on the radio. I sentence you to ride a motorcycle to and from work for the period of 1 year so that you have a better understanding of what we face every day.

I would love to hear a judge say that.

And I believe the station should be forced to play Pro Motorcycle safety commercials everyday for as long as it takes to convince “us” that the damage of the morning comment has been rectified. It is a lot easier to push evil than to rectify it. Lets hold them responsible. I will be tuning in Monday to see what they say.

How about this for brainstorming? Have a motorcycle parade, once a year. Make it big a public, middle of SF. They have one for every other stupid issue out there, how about one for the people that save gas, space in parking lots, and free way commute.

Peace, ride safe out there
 
A little late to the party here, but as I work for a radio station (no, not Live 105) I may have some insight.

Writing and complaing to the station is fine, but a letter is 100 times better than an e-mail. A letter has to be kept in the public file, an FCC mandated bunch of stuff. This file is available to anyone who walks into the station during business hours to inspect. When a group challenges the license renewal of a station they look here. A whole bunch of angry letters is ammo for the challenge. This should deeply concern station management. Angry phone calls get nothing except reassuring management that people are listening, which is good for them. Whether e-mails must be kept in the public file is apparently open to interpretation.

Call and write all of the businesses that advertise on Live 105 and send a copy the station's general manager. Explain that they support a station that has advocated killing or injuring you, and that they have not apologized. Ask that they consider moving their dollars to other radio stations (I hope) or other advertising media (not so good for me...). You gotta hit them in the pocketbook, or they don't really care. That any motorcycle shop would ever advertise again on Live 105 with the current morning show is beyond me. When someone stabs you in the back and you don't at least walk away, be ready for another plunge. They did get a bunch of media coverage from it, so unless it really hurts somehow, it will have been all good for them. No bad publicity, right?

I was at KSJO during the last incident. KSJO ran a pro-motorcycle PSA at least once a day for a month after they (Kramer and Twitch) did the same thing. It didn't get them fired (sucking did, though), but it wasn't a happy time.

On the one hand it could be that Live 105's public face looks apathetic while inside the building things are, uh, tense. But until the public face shows some pain, I wouldn't be happy either. As a radio guy it usually hurts to see someone in our radio family lose their job publicly. But not always.
 
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Carlo Guzzi said:
A little late to the party here, but as I work for a radio station (no, not Live 105) I may have some insight.

Writing and complaing to the station is fine, but a letter is 100 times better than an e-mail. A letter has to be kept in the public file, an FCC mandated bunch of stuff. This file is available to anyone who walks into the station during business hours to inspect. When a group challenges the license renewal of a station they look here. A whole bunch of angry letters is ammo for the challenge. This should deeply concern station management. Angry phone calls get nothing except reassuring management that people are listening, which is good for them. Whether e-mails must be kept in the public file is apparently open to interpretation.

Call and write all of the businesses that advertise on Live 105 and send a copy the station's general manager. Explain that they support a station that has advocated killing or injuring you, and that they have not apologized. Ask that they consider moving their dollars to other radio stations (I hope) or other advertising media (not so good for me...). You gotta hit them in the pocketbook, or they don't really care. That any motorcycle shop would ever advertise again on Live 105 with the current morning show is beyond me. When someone stabs you in the back and you don't at least walk away, be ready for another plunge. They did get a bunch of media coverage from it, so unless it really hurts somehow, it will have been all good for them. No bad publicity, right?

I was at KSJO during the last incident. KSJO ran a pro-motorcycle PSA at least once a day for a month after they (Kramer and Twitch) did the same thing. It didn't get them fired (sucking did, though), but it wasn't a happy time.

On the one hand it could be that Live 105's public face looks apathetic while inside the building things are, uh, tense. But until the public face shows some pain, I wouldn't be happy either. As a radio guy it usually hurts to see someone in our radio family lose their job publicly. But not always.
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:thumbup Carlo Guzzi, thanks for the info.

I will write a letter to them. May be I will just copy/paste the email I sent into a word document, print it, put in an envelope and mail it out. It will probably take all of 3 minutes! :teeth
 
faz said:
:thumbup Carlo Guzzi, thanks for the info.

I will write a letter to them. May be I will just copy/paste the email I sent into a word document, print it, put in an envelope and mail it out. It will probably take all of 3 minutes! :teeth
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+1, absolutely everyone should do this.
 
Moike said:
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I think it just needs to be stressed again what Clear Channel
Communications / Vice President John Sutherland / KSJO did
in the way of concessions to the motorcycling community back in
2001 when Kramer and Twitch pulled this exact same BS.
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I had to read the dates of all these posts a few times. I kept thinking this was a repost of what happened in 01'
:wtf
 
Carlo Guzzi said:
A little late to the party here, but as I work for a radio station (no, not Live 105) I may have some insight.

Writing and complaing to the station is fine, but a letter is 100 times better than an e-mail. A letter has to be kept in the public file, an FCC mandated bunch of stuff. This file is available to anyone who walks into the station during business hours to inspect. When a group challenges the license renewal of a station they look here. A whole bunch of angry letters is ammo for the challenge. This should deeply concern station management. Angry phone calls get nothing except reassuring management that people are listening, which is good for them. Whether e-mails must be kept in the public file is apparently open to interpretation.

Call and write all of the businesses that advertise on Live 105 and send a copy the station's general manager. Explain that they support a station that has advocated killing or injuring you, and that they have not apologized. Ask that they consider moving their dollars to other radio stations (I hope) or other advertising media (not so good for me...). You gotta hit them in the pocketbook, or they don't really care. That any motorcycle shop would ever advertise again on Live 105 with the current morning show is beyond me. When someone stabs you in the back and you don't at least walk away, be ready for another plunge. They did get a bunch of media coverage from it, so unless it really hurts somehow, it will have been all good for them. No bad publicity, right?

I was at KSJO during the last incident. KSJO ran a pro-motorcycle PSA at least once a day for a month after they (Kramer and Twitch) did the same thing. It didn't get them fired (sucking did, though), but it wasn't a happy time.

On the one hand it could be that Live 105's public face looks apathetic while inside the building things are, uh, tense. But until the public face shows some pain, I wouldn't be happy either. As a radio guy it usually hurts to see someone in our radio family lose their job publicly. But not always.
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:wow hmmm--this info is important enough that it should be repeated elsewhere on this forum? in a new thread? it might easily get lost in the deluge of postings here.... :confused
 
i also just cut/pasted/posted carlo guzzi's post there onto the 'useful links re: anti-motorcycle morning show' thread (i had compiled a bunch of relevant links about this whole enchilada, along with contact info and transcripts onto a single thread).
 
Hi All

I have received a request from Woody to post this message to our users.

Here is the message:

:smoking


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THE POST FOR BARF
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First, let me apologize to everyone for causing such a stir. Believe it or not this wasn't any kind of "stunt" to try to get listeners or anything.......what sense would that make? Anyway, I'm really sorry and I've tried to take it back a million times so far, and have advocated lane splitting and encouraged people to STOP PHUCKING WITH PEOPLE ON MOTORCYCLES on the roads, since the initial comment on the 12th.

At this point I don't know what else I can say other than I'm sorry and trust me, message received loud and clear......don't phuck with bikers. Ya'll are amazing at sticking together.

Besides taking the safety class (which I'll do, I'm actually really looking forward to it. I've always wanted to learn how to ride) I've got some other things cookin' in an attempt to "make good" with you guys and biker broads. Including, but not limited to running some awareness Public Service Announcements about lane sharing.....lots have been asking and suggesting that. So consider it done. They'll be on by weeks end. Is there somewhere I can get some specifics.....facts? We'll need to write copy.

Don't take this out on Dan at Bay Area Yamaha, he had nothing to do with this, and trust me when I tell you he gave an earful to everyone here at the radio station about his displeasure over the situation. You can hate me, that's fine.....I'll understand. But Dan wasn't involved in the original segment, and has done nothing but be a stand-up guy and defend motorcycling.

He's got it right though.......as do most of you on this board.......let's try to turn this into a positive. We on the morning show will be more than happy to help promote a charity event, or something else of the ilk to help get the word out.

Again, I'm really sorry. Not that you have to believe me, but it's my hope that over time all of you can see that I'm not an evil guy. Just a dumb radio DJ. Lesson learned.

Woody (yes that Woody)
Live 105
 
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See, remain calm, and things tend to work out.
 
My first post to this forum, and to 105.

To further inform you that your morning shows endorsement of causing motorcyclists to crash while legally lane splitting, has made it all the way up here to MILWAUKEE, WI

Anyone who actively promotes causing bodily harm and possible death to a law abiding citizen should be arrested, shortly after having been FIRED.
 
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