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Is 95.5 Hallelujah FM selling ads to sex shops?

T

the golden boy

A reader at the Jackson Free Press website said that he/she heard 95.5 play commercials from a sex toy shop. Since I haven't heard the ad, I can't confirm it for myself. However, if this is true, what does this say about the station? Wouldn't it run counter to the message they try to send out? I know their lack of revenue had been discussed in the past, but if they're selling to sex shops, are they this (ahem!) hard up for money?
 
Heh... this reminds me of when WYHL (1450) in Meridian was WFFX and we had a sat. gospel feed on there. A "spirtual healer" bought ad time and the spot played for all of a day before the station's three listeners started calling in to complain. Needless to say, it was yanked. I remember that I was asked to cut the thing in the first place and I refused because I didn't want to be associated with it.
 
There was a similar case back in the early 1990's of then 105.9 WYJS ( Spirit 106 ), whose catch phrase was "We're Your Jesus Station ", running Budweiser spots . This got the Christian community up on their B-I-B-L-E-S back then . Needless to say , the spot did not last long .
 
There was a jock at WWUN that wouldn't start the cart to play a beer spot. (Late 1960s)
Tim LeBlanc put him on overnights where he wouldn't have to worry about it.
Many stations wouldn't play beer spots on Sunday then. You still can't advertise
a liquor store if you're licensed to a dry county. WJNT and 93.9 in Jackson are
licensed to Pearl (Rankin).
 
sometimes a beer ad will play on a gospel station when they are running a ball game. The station isn't playing the spot themselves, its coming from the network. I wouldn't be surprised to hear the sex shop ad, if its the one I think it is, it from romatic adventures on highway 80, the same thing is playing on Z 106 and several other stations. In my opinion, it makes the station look cheap when they run ads for porn shops and strip joints. It just sounds really tacky. If I'm not mistaken I heard an ad for something on 95.5 that was sponsered by a casino. correct me if I'm wrong. tacky tacky tacky.
 
flytrap said:
In my opinion, it makes the station look cheap when they run ads for porn shops and strip joints. It just sounds really tacky. If I'm not mistaken I heard an ad for something on 95.5 that was sponsered by a casino. correct me if I'm wrong. tacky tacky tacky.
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Don't you love corporate radio?
 
I have heard casino ads on Hallelujah before, they were for the buffets and not anything associated with gambling. But, the thought of a casino advertising on a gospel station to begin with raises eyebrows. Hearing beer ads, casinos and sex shops do run counter to what religion preaches against.
 
It's a format to CC. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
"We're not in the business of providing news and information. We're not in the business of providing well-researched music. We're simply in the business of selling our customers products."
Lester "Lowry" Mays
 
....and THAT is the problem. It's the philosophy of corporate greed.

Since we're on a religous topic...isn't "greed" one of the seven deadly sins?

I though so.

If it quacks like a duck....

...or..."by their fruits ye shall know them".
 
I've always had a problem with radio stations running spots for businesses who have a less than savory reputation, even on a secular station. I'm not a prude, but I still think its tacky and just plain bad taste to put a "Naughty Shop" or a "Gentlemen's Club" ad on my radio. stations seem to not care about their 'brand" anymore. If I was the owner or salesman of the station I would show them the door if they tried to buy time on my station., There used to be something called "CLASS" and when you hear one of those "Naughty shop" ads on a country station, or any station, it gives everyone at the station a sleezy, seedy image. Maybe I'm old fasioned but I'm not a fan of trash of any kind on the radio. leave that stuff on cable or sattelite. For some reason I just can't picture Farmer Jim Neal doing remote at a strip Joint. But it doesn't seem to bother anyone at Z 106 to make one of their jocks promote one of the same business that the Mayor Melton and police have constantly raided and tried to shut down on several occasions.
I've always suspected that many of these sleeze joint business owners are not always pillers of the community, and why any radio station would want to get into bed with them I'll never figure it out.

I'm reminded of an episode of WKRP where they ran a bunch tasteless commercials for a funeral parlor. They finally came to their senses and pulled the plug because it was just made the station look silly.

You are free to disagree with me, but that is my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
 
If someone heard a "sex-toy" ad, it was absolutely by accident. Hallelujah's policy is no condom ads, no alcoholic beverage ads, no casino (gambling) ads, and no sex shop ads. Period. Since day one.
 
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