Texarkana radio station bans Madonna songs after Women's March speech
Source: KVUE
TEXARKANA, Tx. (KTHV) - It looks like one radio station in Texarkana has had enough of Madonna and her music.
HITS 105 posted on their Facebook page that they are removing all of Madonna's music from their station indefinitely in response to statements she made during a speech at the Women's March. Madonna made headlines after she said she's thought an "awful lot of blowing up the White House, but I know that this won't change anything."
The radio station said they decided to remove her music after that comment as well as the various "F-bombs" she dropped during her speech.
"Banning all Madonna songs at HITS 105 is not a matter of politics, it's a matter of patriotism," said Terry Thomas, General Manager of the radio station. "It just feels wrong to us to be playing Madonna songs and paying her royalties when the artist has shown un-American sentiments."
Read more: http://www.kvue.com/entertainment/texarkana-radio-station-bans-madonna-songs-after-womens-march-speech/392415990
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)ck4829
(35,091 posts)Sound awfully similar to radio stations banning the Dixie Chicks because "uh... patriotism" in 2003, now who was right to be ashamed of their President again?
Maybe these radio people should study their own actions, but of course they won't, their golden-haired demigod will only lead them to fame and fortune, right? Right?
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)helped the Nazi party solidify its control.
hells
(141 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)johnp3907
(3,732 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Censorship.
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)"As of 2015, Dixie Chicks have won 13 Grammy Awards, including five in 2007 for Taking the Long Waywhich received the Grammy Award for Album of the Yearand "Not Ready to Make Nice", a single from that album. By December 2015, with 30.5 million certified albums sold,[2] and sales of 27.5 million albums in the U.S. alone, they had become the top selling all-female band and biggest-selling country group in the U.S. during the Nielsen SoundScan era (1991present)."
deminks
(11,017 posts)Kinda like boycotting Hamilton when they are sold out.
Did they ban Darth Cheney when he told Sen Leahey to go f himself in the Senate?
Is anyone as foul mouthed as Ted Nugent?
So, unless they announce that they are banning Madonna every 15 minutes, no one would probably notice.
onenote
(42,759 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Coventina
(27,172 posts)Because Texarkana is hardly her core fan base.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)among many other very successful acts over the years) Madonna is worth hundreds of millions of dollars (probably close to a billion). This impotent nonsense may flatter their listeners but it will obviously have ZERO effect on Madonna.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts).
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)narnian60
(3,510 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)paleotn
(17,956 posts)While even terrestrial FM is dying a slow, painful death? Talk about a dinosaur. Are they still spinning vinyl?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Class D (daytime only) 2.5 kW
paleotn
(17,956 posts)AM/ FM that covers about 2 counties, with some bleed over. I'm not sure how on earth they make ends meet competing against satellite and internet streaming, much less the bigger stations in Asheville and Charlotte. Local ads I guess. Still, a dying business.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Main signal is 4.3kw Class A, (KTTY), the AM is 740 khz KCMC (AM Daytimer 2.4kw day, 11 watts night), and 250 watt translator K288FI (as a lot of AM stations are being "revived" by receiving a license for a FM translator station). Part of small cluster of stations in a small market owned by a (relatively) small media company. The kind we usually champion against the likes of iheartmedia, Entercom, et al.
paleotn
(17,956 posts)Unless the little guy is some raving, Trumpkin supporting moran.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)paleotn
(17,956 posts)...I thought that was respected as a gawd given right in Trumpfuckistan?
Paladin
(28,272 posts)I bet Madonna's devastated by such a loss. Who's taking her place in the line-up? Toby Keith? Hank Jr.? Kid? Devastating entertainment news......
Vinca
(50,303 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)list.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Small minded business owners can be idiots.