RW Columbus radio station in trouble for pro-Arizona contest

[mwb970]

Radio station's giveaway angers immigrant groups
(Columbus Dispatch, May 28, 2010)

Immigrant groups are asking a local talk-radio station to apologize for promoting a Phoenix giveaway that it launched after Columbus' mayor suspended city travel to Arizona to protest its new immigration law. WTVN-AM (610) promoted the giveaway as a trip to Phoenix "where Americans are proud and illegals are scared."

The contest, which ended last night, was designed to capitalize on the maelstrom kicked up by Mayor Michael B. Coleman's decision, said WTVN program director Mike Elliott. It was the most popular the station has had, he said. About 5,000 people entered the drawing for round-trip airfare to Phoenix, hotel accommodations, a "few pesos" and the opportunity to "spend a weekend chasing aliens and spending cash in the desert." The station encouraged Columbus city employees to enter.

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Elliott said the station does not plan to apologize. He disagreed that the promotion contained racial overtones.

"It comes down to the word illegal for me. It's not a race thing. It's a legal thing," he said. "If you're breaking the law, it doesn't matter where you're from."

WTVN is a right-wing sewer that broadcasts hateful wingnut propaganda on a super-high-power Clear Channel AM station that can be received on Mars. (Needless to say, there is no liberal radio station in Columbus, an increasingly blue city, and the one newspaper we are allowed to have leans quite far to the right.)

[kevinbgoode]

1. hmm..so are there any illegal Irish in Columbus, Ohio?

or perhaps any other nationalities?

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. The Clear Channel propaganda network

It is the same BS here and we have a few other right wing radio stations to add to the mix.

These right wing stations are a primary conduit of hate, intolerance, racism and propaganda for the extremist right wing.

[blue sky at night]

3. i beg to differ.......

if you have the Internet, you have every station your heart desires...

here is one you can start with, it should have all you need:


http://kptk.cbslocal.com/2009/02/04/welcome-to-our-new-website/


we broadcast via fm transmitter to all of the radios in the house, and to the neighbors too probably.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. How are they in trouble?

It was a PR stunt that apparently worked.