Friday, March 16, 2012

To a local sponsor,

Your previous radio personality KGO John Thompson retired at the end of February. Your  ads are now being aired on the Rush Limbaugh show on KKSF Newstalk910. I am not sure of the history of how this happened. Only that KGO was bought out and reorganized as an all news channel. Some of the talk show may have been shifted or bought out by KKSF bumping out a soft jazz program.

KGO is a 500KWatt station and KKSF is a 20KWatt station. That's 25 times power. Take the square root. 5 times the coverage radius. KKSF is a new station with few listeners. They have less than 600 facebook followers as compared to hundreds of thousands of followers for a typical well established station. The statistics on their web site are "optimistic".

If you do not at least put a "no run" on the Rush Limbaugh show they will shift all of your ads into Rush's 9AM to Noon time slot to fill many vacated spaces let by fleeing advertisers. And this is negative advertising. There will be a boycott sooner or later. It has already happened on the national level. You can Google Rush Limbaugh Advertisers for more information.

I know how annoying an "activist" can be to somebody running a business. I have run a business myself. A machine shop. I have, though, your interest at heart. Please consider this as a request to join us. Rush Limbaugh is not good for Democrats, Republicans, or the country. Please call Clear Channel (415) 975-5555 and ask for the sales person Cheryle Hangartner to put a "no run" on the Rush Limbaugh show.

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