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Tim Conway Jr. Suspended Next Week. Anyone know Why?

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I was listening to Tim Conway Jr’s show last night on KFI and he announced that he and his producer were being suspended next week and would return to the air on Tuesday, June 1st. Apparently it was due to something that was said on the show on May 3rd. Does anyone know what it was?
 
Thanks for the link BigA! Sounds like an overreaction to suspend him for that, but I know things are different these days. What many may consider to be a joke and a funny impersonation is now insensitive and offensive in 2021.
 
Rule of thumb: If you are going to do cross-the-line comedy, be funny.

Dave Chappelle does some pretty over-the-top (probably racist) shtick. But it's more forgivable because it brings down the house. This bit went on about 5 minutes too long and wasn't especially funny. But I get it; coming up with 4 hours of content every weekday means mistakes like this one happens.
 
Overreaction just like in 2012 with John and ken and when John referred to whitney houston when she died as a crack something.

Iheart you overreacted then and you overreacted now. Good for timmy he gets a week off to spend with his family.
 
TheBigA said:
Especially in LA:

The City of Los Angeles in the state of California has the highest population of Asian Americans in the US at about 1,884,669, which is about 14.7% of the total population.
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The updated (by Nielsen) 2020 numbers for the LA MSA show 14.9% Asian which comes out to 2,054,000 persons in LA and Orange counties.

Orange County has the highest Asian population percentage, at 20%.

The City of Los Angeles has just under 500,000 Asians or Asian Americans and the number has been declining for several years in the annual estimates as Asians of nearly all heritages move to The OC or the San Gabriel Valley.
 
hotpatrick2004 said:
Overreaction just like in 2012 with John and ken and when John referred to whitney houston when she died as a crack something.

Iheart you overreacted then and you overreacted now. Good for timmy he gets a week off to spend with his family.
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To be fair, it went beyond saying she died from crack. It was a whole shtick about "the crack 'ho down at the pool." The "whore" part was more offensive than the "crack" part. Combined it paints a stereotype of intercity 1970s African-American poverty. Not a great look.

What changed isn't iHeart. It's the advertisers. If listeners paid to listen to Conway or J&K, the hosts could say whatever the audience continues to pay for, no matter how offensive. But places like Fletcher Jones Motorcars (Mercedes-Benz) are paying for the content. If 60%+ of your customers are well-educated, wealthy Asian-Americans buying $80,000 SUVs — you'll take notice what content your spots are running next to.
 
henry said:
What changed isn't iHeart. It's the advertisers. If listeners paid to listen to Conway or J&K, the hosts could say whatever the audience continues to pay for, no matter how offensive. But places like Fletcher Jones Motorcars (Mercedes-Benz) are paying for the content. If 60%+ of your customers are well-educated, wealthy Asian-Americans buying $80,000 SUVs — you'll take notice what content your spots are running next to.
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One other factor that clients/sponsors are mindful of is the power of social media, and the ability to influence people/businesses, rightly or wrongly, through targeted protesting.
 
leethalweapon said:
One other factor that clients/sponsors are mindful of is the power of social media, and the ability to influence people/businesses, rightly or wrongly, through targeted protesting.
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Absolutely! We may run around (accurately or inaccurately) yelling about the "P.C. police." But it always comes down to your radio station driving customers to clients' businesses or driving customers away from clients' businesses. Obviously they won't pay for the latter. Enough of those, and your show (and possibly station) is (are) cooked.

Plenty of P.C. boycotts (J&K's "Crack 'Ho" comment) and religious boycotts (e.g., Opie and Anthony's "Sex for Sam" stunt) to go around. It was never about political ideology. It's always been about human nature.
 
what radio stations don't need is a client, especially one you count on to make the rent, calling up and screaming there are people calling, emailing, or standing outside holding signs that accuse the client's business of supporting ( insert the woke flavor of the week here) because they advertise on WXYZ's morning show that did a bit that offended ( insert butt hurt group here) .

There was a sports station in Boston that had their morning show say something that was taken as offensive to the parent of a LQBTQ+ child, and that parent had the time and resources to go to every sponsor and get some big names ( Dunkin Brands being one and you run on Dunkin' ad dollars in the Northeast) to pull their spots.

But then again WEEI has a long history starting with the "Metco Gorilla" ( gorilla gets free from zoo, is photographed at bus stop, METCO is the inner city to suburb voluntary school busing co-operative that brings students of color to suburbia) and other incidents such as Sponsors fleeing Boston sports radio station WEEI after ex-Patriots player's racist bit

In the current advertising climate, you can ill afford to piss off a local paying sponsor.
 
Or, you know, people could find ways to be entertaining and funny while still being tasteful. Plenty of talk radio managed to have classy and well spoken, intelligent people who didn't need to take cheap shots. It actually takes more talent to do that and entertain within the boundaries, then to be a cranky lout who just takes shots at people they don't agree with or understand. As for Conway, all he or his producer had to do is read the news and grasp why it wasn't a great time for that bit. It's not hard.
 
well, the days of catering to listeners with a MENSA IQ are long gone, you can thank Stern, all the morning zoo shows, and the cater to the lowest common denominator / listener IQ format for the lack of decorum on many stations.

But then again, we had WBCN !!!

 
His show was so much better on 97.1 when he was paired with Brian Whitman and Doug Steckler. KFI has toned him down, his supporting cast is lackluster, the topics are too newsy, and the demographic of the callers don't have the same energy and humor as the 18-45 male target demo from KLSX. Once in a while, you can hear the old Conway try to break through but his producers shut him down.

I find myself going back to the 97.1 archives and listening to his old shows (along with others) puts a huge smile on my face. Was a great station when it was around in an era where edgier topics were more candidly discussed without the same repercussions as today.
 
Tim and producer Sheron Bellio are scheduled to return Tue. 6/1/2021.
KFI will air a special program airing on Sunday 5/30/2021 from 4-6 PM dealing with Asian hate crimes.

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