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Chio & Phillies Tickets

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stoshman

What a great message to 12+ listeners that you'll be rewarded for 'allegedly' performing a 'crime' to get what you want.............i enjoy a good story like the next guy and even though the woman who looked to exchange 'sex' (allegedly) for world series tickets, gets arrested and then the station that caters to 12+ listeners gives this woman tickets for a world series game.............it shows kids do anything to get what you want..............i think wired could have used other 'creative ways' to give away world series tickets, there are hundreds of others who deserved those tix more than someone 'allegedly' trying to obtain them thru the 'oldest profession'...........
 
....and on The Today Show....they mention it, saying a "local Philadelphia radio station" did this....and all of a sudden, our city looks like chit to the rest of the world. Thanks Chio. How about playing a song once in a while.
 
ken & kitty,formerly of cat country 96 and 99.9 the hawk in the lehigh valley, i think their motto used to be 'any publicity is good publicity'................seems to fit here.....the bigger 'prostitute' here might be wired...........
 
Has anyone here thought of what the station might look like when or IF
they find that this woman DID offer sex acts for tickets?
Have you watched her on the news.....very telling bod language.
Do we think the officer made this up.
 
stoshman said:
the bigger 'prostitute' here might be wired...........
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To quote a longtime disco disc jockey from Philadelphia: "The radio owners are a bunch of prostitutes!"
 
They didn't sponsor the woman. They just interviewed her, as anyone would. It's a fun interview on the radio, and when you look at the woman, and hear her story, you realize just how innocent the whole thing is.
 
Someone in an earlier post said it best: In its heyday, terrestrial radio executives (and their counterparts in TV as well) were indeed the biggest prostitutes in society. They simply did not care what they had to do, as long as it benefited their station. Now the radio industry is dead so they have other issues to worry about.
 
Didn't hear the interview, but did read the piece in the paper that raises questions about the validity of the original story (and arrest). If her account is accurate, there's no "morality be damned" issue, more like giving someone who got caught up by an overzealous sting operation a chance to see the game.
 
Bottom line they used the tickets to get publicity and it worked! Could they have gotten more with an on air cume or tsl builder, sure...but they got instant publicity in the market and that's what matters. The most important question: will it translate to listener gain...no, but hey they did get press! That's an ego win for sure...
 
Most of the news stories mentioned "a local radio station" gave her tickets, I only saw one article that mentioned Wired 96.5
 
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