the first ammendment does not mandate your audience or advertising dollars

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Ten advertisers have pulled their support from KRXQ over the morning show's vitriolic comments regarding transgender children.

"You guys imply that all you have to do is...whack my non-existent child with a shoe if he goes clopping around the house in high heels," commented a listener who identified herself as a male-to-female transgender who previously had served in the US armed forces for 22 years. "Don't you think that all the abuse that I took in school would have changed that basic nature in me?"

"Thank you for your service, but let me just say this right now," quipped an angered States. "You fought (in the armed forces) for nothing! With the opinions that you have right there, you fought for absolutely nothing!"

What the fuck does that even mean, you fought for nothing? States is a hateful, hateful little person.

The companies who have dropped their advertising:
# Chipotle
# Snapple
# Sonic
# Bank of America
# Verizon
# Carl’s Jr (CKE Restaurants)
# Wells Fargo
# Nissan North America
# AT&T
# McDonald’s

Comments

[kevinblanchard.livejournal.com]

I'm pleasantly surprised by some of the companies on the list. Pulling advertising sends a VERY clear message to radio stations.

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Update 6/5, 8:45PM: McDonald's is not lovin' the Rob, Arnie & Dawn show. The fast food giant, along with AT&T, have withdrawn or "are in the process of withdrawing" advertisement support from KRXQ, bringing the list of advertisers to drop the Rob, Arnie & Dawn show to ten.

Does anyone have a list of the remaining advertisers? Seems like some pressure could be put on those that remain.

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Ah... here we go... a list of remaining advertisers...

If you are outraged, I urge you to continue lobbying KRXQ's sponsors. If the station won't do the right thing, tell their sponsors they are sponsoring hate speech and violence. 10 companies have already withdrawn advertising. (TY to all posters listing contacts!)

This act of vitriol calls for action....if you are outraged, tell those that care and that matter:

AN UPDATED LIST OF KRXQ's REMAINING ADVERTISERS:

STATE FARM INSURANCE:
Dawn Fones, Public Affairs Specialist at (309) 766-2259
Dawn.fones.cv9s@statefarm.com

ALBERTSONS (of SUPERVALU INC.)
David Oliver, Investors and Financial Media 952-828-4540
david.m.oliver@supervalu.com

Steve Bloomquist, 952-828-4144
steve.j.bloomquist@supervalu.com

JARED JEWELERS (of Sterling Jewelers Inc., of Signet Jewelers)
David Bouffard, Consumer and trade media 1 330 668 5369
dbouffard@jewels.com

GUITAR CENTER
Norman Hajjar, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
on twitter as Venezia

RED BULL
Ellie Applen, Media Contact 310-460-4532
Ellen.applen@us.redbull.com

SLEEP TRAIN MATTRESS CENTERS
Dale Carlsen, President of Sleep Train
dale@sleeptrain.com

PURINA
Keith Schopp, Public Relations 314-982-2577
kschopp@purina.com

HAWAIIAN AIRLINES
Keoni Wagner Vice President - Public Affairs (808) 838-6778
Keoni.Wagner@hawaiianair.com

Patrick Dugan, McNeil Wilson Communications (808) 539-3411
pdugan@mcneilwilson.com

FLEX YOUR POWER
info@fypower.org

PEP BOYS
Alexandra Spooner, Communications Manager
mediarelations@pepboys.com

Ray Arthur, Chief Financial Officer
investorrelations@pepboys.com
GRIFFIN & REED EYECARE:
info@LASIKworld.com

PRO CITY MORTGAGE:
procity@procitymortgage.com

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KRXQ has removed its list of advertisers, but fortunately, Google has a cache of the page here.