Matthew Wolpert
WADR,
No, the thing to do is to let them know that there are a lot, a whole
lot of us who care about this, and who are willing to take the time to
let them know how we feel. I especially think that advertisers need to
know about this.
When one person says something like this, it may indeed be best to
ignore them. When that person is a radio DJ, it is not appropriate to
ignore them, as there are tens of thousands of people who are
listening.
-Matthew
On 2/2/06, Michael O'Hair <moh-@easystreet.com> wrote:
The only way to deal with this sort of thing is to totally ignore it. Every
call that comes in is taken as proof that someone listens to these jerks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Long, Steve
To: ob-@topica.com
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:09 AM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Local radio station slams bikes being on the road
Hello gang,
I'm sorry to say that yesterday morning, 105.1 The Buzz, joined in with a
caller that was complaining about bicycles being on any road without a bike
lane. Our good buddy, Nelson, seems to think that anything without a motor
in it has no place on the road and that cyclists should be forced to take a
taxi to their place of riding, indoors, and take a taxi back home again.
And, good old Terry had to agree with the caller too because, once when he
was pulling his boat out of the water with his Ford Excursion, and there
was a bike in the way and it slowed him down a little.
I called them to discuss it a little this morning and they were so rude that
I couldn't believe it. Josh answered the phone and he was just about as rude
as could be, not even wanting to give me the time of day.
Yesterday, I called the Program Director of The Buzz, Jeff McHugh and he
never even returned my call.
In this day and age, in this City of Portland, and its Metropolitan region,
that has been labeled the friendliest cycling city in America, and when on
this very day, there's a front page article in the Oregonian discussing a,
nearly 2 million dollar, add campaign targeted at reducing the Portland
Metropolitan Area's traffic congestion, it seems, whole heartedly,
irresponsible and bad citizenship for a public entity as popular as the Buzz
to behave in this manner.
If any of you cares to join me in letting the Buzz and Entercom, for that
matter, know much the Metropolitan region disapproves of this behavior, here
are some helpful names and e-mail addresses:
Program director for the Buzz:
Jeff Mchugh
jmch-@entercom.com
Sales Manager:
Brian Lee
bl-@entercom.com
Above these two on the food chain are:
Jeff Clarke
jcla-@entercom.com
And
Erin Hubert
ehub-@entercom.com
Some of the companies that advertise with the Buzz are
Wells Fargo
The Shane Company
Safeway
Allstate
Les Schwab
PureRomance.com
KATU
Mattress World
Perhaps we could also let their advertisers know how much we disapprove of
this behavior and that we take notice of companies that support it.
Just a thought gang. I hope some of you join me.
Steve Long
NRR
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