Hot 97 Tsunami Song

[DunnoNothing]

I thought I should post this. (First post)

http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000759.html.

For the last week Hot 97 has been running a hideously unfunny and offensive skit named "Tsunami Song," that ridicules the victims of the Tsunami as "ch*nks" whose children will now be sold into child slavery. It's being played on the station's morning show, hosted by Miss Jones.

It's also featured on their website, on the right side of the page. (This is a direct link to the mp3).

EDIT: the mp3 link is not working from their site anymore, but they're not gonna cover this up that easily. The fine citizens at okayplayer.com saved a copy here for evidence. Also check their discussion of the song here and here

Here are some choice lyrics:

..All at once you could hear the screaming ch*nks and no one was safe from the wave there were africans drowning, little chinamen swept away you could hear god laughing, "swim you b*tches swim"
So now you're screwed, it's the Tsunami
you better run or kiss your ass away, go find your mommy
I just saw her float by, a tree went through her head
and now the children will be sold to child slavery...



Uhh, yeah. Har de har har.

You may know that one of that show's other hosts, Miss Info, is Asian. She voiced her displeasure with the skit and got into a heated on-air argument with Miss Jones about it. But so far Hot 97 hasn't acknowledged that there's anything wrong with it, and they continue to air it everyday.

As a New Yorker, as a radio person, and as a hip-hop fan I am ashamed and disgusted that Hot 97 is allowing this to broadcast on their airwaves. If you feel the same way you can let them know here:

HOT 97
395 Hudson St. 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10014

(212) 229-9797

[ellencho]

Yeah I wrote an email to the FCC and to the radio station and I'm sure plenty others did as well, but I'm sorry to say, I have the feeling very little will happen as a result.

[Scowl]

Man, that's low, even for radio. I mean, I would have expected something like that from Howard Stern, but not even he has been so tasteless about it (although not for lack of trying, I must add). Wow. Needless to say, I'm very disappointed.

At this rate, I'm going to run out of radio stations to listen to.

[xian]

I think it's typical that the apology just covers the insults directed towards the victims of the tsunami, but does not address the core bigotry that reduces all of us yellow people to "chinks".

I'm also sad to see people turn this into a "black/asian" issue (ala Ghettopoly). In any racist system, there will always be token minorities who take pay-offs to persecute other minorities. If we let that create inter-minority group conflict, then we are aiding the forces that cause these incidents in the first place.

[Taliesin Stormheller]

I've said this once and I'll say it again. THE WEST HATES US.

[howstrange]

fuck this shit. Why do people constantly get away with shit like this? Especially in NY, where Chinese delivery guys are being victimized and murdered, it seems like, every other week. You would think there would be a public awareness and sensitivity because of these recent stings of racists crimes. I guess not.

[Justin]

Wow what a dumbass move.

[Justin]

Here is some more info:

You can hear the audio for yourself at: http://www.thesilent1.com/longer_hot97_tsunami.mp3

If you wish to make a further comment, you can send an e-mail to the program director jdimick@hot97.emmis.com or address (which original poster gave above)

You can also contact some of Hot 97's sponsors here:

Sprint/Sprint PCS
Media Contact:
James Fisher, 202-585-1947
james.w.fisher@mail.sprint.com

Popeyes
http://popeyes.com/corp_comm.asp

Reebok
Reebok International Ltd.
PO Box 1060
Ronks, PA 17573

McDonald's
http://mcdonalds.com/contact/contact_us.html

[kayem]

http://www.petitiononline.com/endhate/petition.html

sign it and spread the word, even though i highly doubt that anything will come from this, it doesnt take much time to just sign it, i dunno why miss info didnt just slap the fuck outta the racist bitch in the first place

[KeJia Sista]

I signed:
#967 Day Chou

There's nothing funny about racism or the deaths and devastation of the tsunami tragedy. Too bad you stooges set your pace mimicking Howard Stern monkeyshines. . You could be a positive image for your base of young listeners of color; you could actually be standing for something.

Losers. Minstrel sell-outs.


KeJia Sista

[KeJia Sista]

thats bogus for them to say that shit

Theres a lot of bogus shyt said in rap/hip hop. Maybe if those of us who listen to it challenged them all along it wouldnt come to this.

Ke Jia

[xian]

I went ahead and put together some of my thoughts:
http://yellowcontent.blogspot.com/2005/01/tsunami-song.html

[Dialectic]

No need to be so tiptoey or apologetic! Taliesin's crazy anyway :P

I'm sure your deliverymen appreciate the consideration!

[Justin]

http://www.alljin.com/Audio/Exclusives/jin-tsunami_response.mp3

[AngryEthiopian]

xian said everything in his blog. right on man. It's disgusting how people are treating humans, no matter what race they are, what events occurred, and how terrible it is.

I personally look at it in the same way I look at all distasteful ignorant comedy and satire. It's utterly meaningless and serves no purpose for the betterment of society... Yet we let it happen everyday. I think everyone needs to learn to step outside their box and see the bullshit that is being done every day, to different people. It's easy to see the things that offend you, but can you see what offends others? What causes pain? What about when people make jokes about starving Ethiopians? I'm sure everyone here has heard at least one starving Ethiopian or African joke about flies and famine. If you look hard enough, you'll find stupid songs about that shit too.

What about that stupid movie made about Africans way back in the day... I forgot the name, but they created this fake language with clicking noises... People joke about that ignorant insensitive shit to this day. Let someone make a movie where people are speaking some fucked up french and see what happens... :roll: It's all been done before and it all needs to stop. We all gotta support each other and learn to spot racism in media and in comedy (just because you think it's funny, doesn't mean it is). That's what Miss Jones and a lot of other people need to learn.

[Dialectic]

That Jin response was fuckin' TIGHT. I love that muthafucka.

[The Ram]

That Jin response was fuckin' TIGHT. I love that muthafucka.

Right on man..mad props to him for stepping up.

[Dialectic]

Oh shit I just listened to the whole extended version and heard one of the Black DJs mumble the now infamous "I'm gonna start shootin' Asians" line. Motherfuckers.

[ellencho]

And I also want to add that Miss Info, who is AA and a co-host of the morning show at hot 97 made a point to say that she did not support the song and had nothing to do with it and ended up getting into a spat with Miss Jones on the air about it. You can dl the argument from this site: http://www.3030radio.com/longer_hot97_tsunami.mp3

Miss Jones has the nerve to get mad at Miss Info for saying that she objected to the song and then accuses her of feeling "superior" for being asian. She might as well have accused Miss Info of not wanting to be an idiot like everyone else is too.

[AngryEthiopian]

Miss Jones has the nerve to get mad at Miss Info for saying that she objected to the song and then accuses her of feeling "superior" for being asian. She might as well have accused Miss Info of not wanting to be an idiot like everyone else is too.
That's what happens when you stand up for yourself. Martin Luther King was often called an "Uppity Negro". Word.

I've had a lot of people tell me that I think i'm superior because I'm black. It's a cop out used by bitch ass suckas who have no pride within themselves. I'm glad Miss Info went seperate and spoke out against it, but anytime someone does speak out against ignorance they will always be attacked by someone who didn't have the guts to stand up.

[Jae Thorn]

I posted this response on the issue elsewhere, but the paragraphs that I wanted to post are as follows...

"Some may wonder why I'm enraged at a song such as this considering my heritage; I am American/African/Puerto Rican in real life, and I don't have any asian relatives. The indignation I feel, however, stems from a history of Americans showing their ignorance abroad by being viewed as unaccepting, uneducated, and callous toward other cultures, especially in the times that we live in. The anger I feel stems from Hip-Hop culture already being slighted in the media and displayed as an art form that only perpetuates one thing, and fails to convince others of it's actual presence as an art form in today's society through the four elements. The rage I feel stems from the bias that still permeates hip-hop in the forms of racism, gender bias, and homophobia; this song created is only another ignorant note on the checklist of things that need to be corrected in media and in personal circles to truly allow hip-hop to blossom as an art form and be recognized for what it is. "

"Some may also state that perhaps this is just a matter to push aside, and that the damage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. "It's a song, so what?-it's not like it hurt anyone?". I ask this question to those parties-if a song had been made on November 11th, 2002, one month after the 9/11 tragedy that occrured by a radio station in Europe, how many people would be banned and blacklisted?How many people would Clearchannel try to fire?How many people would suddenly turn super-patriot and write their stations?How many Protest Warriors would jump up, signs in hand, and suddenly feel the same rage that I do?I'm willing to be that more than a few would feel justified in raising hell, but since we're in America, it's just happening to "those people over there"-why should we care?

Try thinking about it for a second. "

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(listens to the longer sample)-I'd really like to slap that stupid bitch Miss Jones in the mouth, and I'd like to take Todd whoever the fuck he is in the cage for real. 5 rounds, UFC style.....some motherfuckers have to make every american-african look stupid....

[blockthebox]

http://www.alljin.com/Audio/Exclusives/jin-tsunami_response.mp3

Wow, thanks for that link, Justin (f/k/a Containerz???). My utmost respect goes out to Jin for recording an AWESOME response to the Tsunami Song.

Incidentally, Jin's site says he's gonna be on UPN 9 News tonight from 10-11 PM. Check it out if you're in the NY area!

[eskimo]

Looks like a growing public outcry regarding this incident is starting to take effect.

From a simple internet search I came across the following site that appears to be doing a good job of keeping abreast of the situation.

The first link is to the site's main page for information on the tsunami song incident and the second is to a page with a list of the Hot 97's sponsors, some of whom have apparently suspended their accounts. Both pages also show the e-mail addresses of the executives of Hot 97's parent company, Emmis Broadcasting, and to on-line petitions against the song.

http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000759.html

http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000760.html

It's nice to see Asian-Americans (and others) taking a stand on this and illustrates the power of a united and motivated group.

Let's keep the pressure on!

[Pimp Kim Chee]

WHAT UP, MILITANTS. I JUST WANTED TO REMIND YALL DAT SINCE WE IN DA DIGITAL AGE, HOT 97 GETS MONEY FROM ONLINE ADS AS WELL. MA SOURCES TELLS ME DAT DAY SITE'S BANNERS IS SERVED UP BY SPARKLIT AND FASTCLICK (AND HOT 97 GETS BETWEEN 4-8GS/MO FOR DAT SHIT). SHOOT DESE PEEPS A FEW EMAILS AND TELL DEM WHAT ONE OF DAY PUBLISHERS IS UP TO:

advertising@Sparklit.com
http://fastclick.com/contact.html

I SENT SOME CRAZY EMAILS OVER TO HOT 97, THOUGH IM PRETTY SURE DAY GOTS FILTERED OUT CAUSE OF ALL DA CUSSIN. HOWEVER, I DID SEND OUT SOME THANK-YOU EMAILS TO MCDS, SPRINT, AND JACKSON HEWITT FOR TAKIN IMMEDIATE ACTION ON DA MATTER AND HURTIN HOT 97 WHERE IT HURTS MOST: IN DA POCKET BOOK. SURE DAY SAVIN FACE AND SHIT, BUT DAY AINT NOTHIN WRONG WIT TELLIN DEM DAT DAY DID DA RIGHT THING. KEEP DIS FIRE BURNIN HOT, YO. PEACE.

[blockthebox]

Hot 97 suspends morning crew over tsunami 'parody'

BY RAFER GUZMAN
STAFF WRITER

January 26, 2005, 4:02 PM EST

Hot 97's controversial song that mocked tsunami victims is claiming some victims of its own.

Show host Miss Jones and her entire morning team were indefinitely suspended Wednesday after a week of growing public outcry -- and after a number of high-profile advertisers began pulling their support from the station.

"What happened is morally and socially indefensible," Rick Cummings, president of Emmis Radio, which owns Hot 97, said yesterday in an statement. "All involved, myself included, are ashamed and deeply sorry."

At least three advertisers have abandoned the station. McDonald's Corp. suspended its advertising Monday. The tax services company Jackson Hewitt Inc. followed on Tuesday. Wednesday, Sprint announced that it would withdraw its advertising.

What began as a cruel joke about a natural disaster has turned into a catastrophe for Hot 97 (WQHT/97.1 FM). The song, which first aired Jan. 18, included slurs against Asians and jokes about floating bodies and orphaned children. It was set to the tune of the 1985 famine-relief song "We Are The World."

Despite Miss Jones' subsequent on-air apology, New York City councilmen and Asian advocacy groups called for the hosts' resignations. Councilman John Liu of Flushing called the song "reprehensible," and councilman James Gennaro of Fresh Meadows threatened to "go after" the station's advertisers.

"A suspension is the same thing as saying, 'We don't think these people ought to be fired,'" Gennaro said. "That's as big an insult as what the performers did when they sang the song."

Liu's office says it's planning a protest at 11 a.m. tomorrow outside Hot 97's offices in Manhattan. Liu is also complaining to the FCC that Emmis Radio should be fined.

The offending song aired the day after Hot 97's rival station, Power 105 (WWPR/105.1 FM), broadcast a new morning show with Star and Buc Wild, two shock-jocks who are challenging Hot 97's dominance in the New York market. Mayo says the song was not a response to their arrival. But the timing is difficult to ignore.

"It is two key players in the urban hip-hop radio market competing against each other to be the most outrageous," says Kai Yu, director of Asian Media Watch. "We want to make sure both companies don't try to outdo each other in creating a culture of hatred in New York."
Copyright © 2005, Newsday, Inc.

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/nyc-ethot0127,0,5122174.story?coll=ny-homepage-promo

[Taliesin Stormheller]

Okay, I got all my homegirlz in school to sign those petitions and practically every Azn (about 3000 kids in my skool alone) signed them :)

[Dialectic]

Hot 97 suspends morning crew over tsunami 'parody'

This is great to hear. I know people think a suspension isn't enough, but I'm glad the sponsors and station have responded so quickly and positively (as opposed to defending the song) with this. I'm actually quite surprised.

[KeJia Sista]

Hot 97 suspends morning crew over tsunami 'parody'

This is great to hear. I know people think a suspension isn't enough, but I'm glad the sponsors and station have responded so quickly and positively (as opposed to defending the song) with this. I'm actually quite surprised.

[b]I hope suspension is just the beginning and they end up fired. And I dont think the response of the station was so quick. The song had been played for more than a week, possibly two. Those in power at the station were definately aware of it; and let it continue until the shyt hit the fan.

Some folks are also under the impression that Hot 97 is a Black station. Its not. The only Black-owned station in NY was sold last year and is now Air America. Its owned by the Emmis Communication Corp., and the CEO is a White Jewish man, Jeffrey H. Smulyan. He was awarded the Jewish National Fund "Tree of Life Award", and yet he could allow such hatred and racism. I'm sure he was aware that the song had been playing for possibly a couple of weeks. But it was all about ratings and as long as the ratings were high; it was all good.

So yes, fire Ms Jones, (and the whole morning crew). But maybe we ought to also cast our eyes in higher places; at those who put hatespeech, racism, and sexism as a job requirement, whether for a shock jock or a hip hop artist.

Ke Jia

[wipe my tushy]

The only reason Hot 97 caught so much heat is cuz they made fun of the tsunami tragedy. If they made a song on the radio with just racial slurs against asians without mentioning the tsunami, nothing would have happened. Just from my personal listening, I know its happened before on Howard Stern, Opie and Anthony, and even KTU.
And its funny how Todd Lynn didn't get any additional shit for saying "I'm gonna shoot some asians". Just imagine what hell would break loose if he said that about any other ethnic group.

[Dialectic]

The tsunami emphasis and lack of emphasis on Todd Lynn are both very good points. Also Kejia, I didn't know that it had been playing for at least a week!

[eskimo]

Okay, I got all my homegirlz in school to sign those petitions and practically every Azn (about 3000 kids in my skool alone) signed them :)

Great deal, Taliesin!

Thanks for inspiring your friends to support this cause. Let this be the incident that finally unites all Asian-Americans under a common banner from here on forward!

[Pimp Kim Chee]

IT TOOK A LIL LONGER DAN I WAS ESPECTIN, BUT TOYOTA FINALLY GOTS BACK TO ME ABOUT ALL DA SHIT DAT BE GOIN DOWN. CHECK IT:

Subject
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READ DIS SHIT, BIATCH


Discussion Thread
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Response (Sean) - 01/27/2005 03:41 PM

Thank you for contacting Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.

We are sensitive to the opinions of our customers and apologize if a Toyota sponsorship has offended you in any way.

Toyotaís decision to advertise on particular programs is based on the level of interest generated by the American public, not the subject matter contained in the program. We make every effort to screen broadcasts considered to contain controversial issues, however we had no prior knowledge of the radio station's intent to air ìThe Tsunami Songî. Additionally, Toyota advertising stems from three distinct levels; local, regional, and national. This particular advertising was from a TDA (Toyota Dealers Association), which represents the greater New York
Region.

Upon learning of this issue the TDA immediately contacted management at Hot 97 to express their dissatisfaction. As a result, Hot 97 responded with a written apology to the TDA. Our research of the Hot 97 controversy indicates the radio station has ceased the broadcast, issued a public apology, and offered a notable contribution to tsunami relief.

Toyota in no way condones nor supports the messages prevalent in the parody known as "The Tsunami Songî. To the contrary, we take many opportunities to promote cultural and racial diversity, and regarding the tragedy created by the natural disaster, Toyota estimates a nearly four million dollar contribution for tsunami relief efforts from its North American affiliates.

Your email has been documented at our National Headquarters under file
#***********. If we can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact us.

Toyota Customer Experience


Customer (PKC) - 01/27/2005 09:28 AM
FUCK YOU, MUTHAFUCKAS FOR SPONSORIN DAT BULLSHIT DAT BE

[Dialectic]

You ain't just gonna tease us with the first line of your email are you? Post the rest, biatch!

[Catatonic]

Yeah, I noticed that most of the local media in NYC did NOT even mention some of the more racists aspects.

Todd Lynn should be fired PERIOD for advocating violence (and not just bodily harm but death).

[xian]

The only reason Hot 97 caught so much heat is cuz they made fun of the tsunami tragedy. If they made a song on the radio with just racial slurs against asians without mentioning the tsunami, nothing would have happened. Just from my personal listening, I know its happened before on Howard Stern, Opie and Anthony, and even KTU.
And its funny how Todd Lynn didn't get any additional shit for saying "I'm gonna shoot some asians". Just imagine what hell would break loose if he said that about any other ethnic group.

Good points. Some evidence for your point:
http://yellowcontent.blogspot.com/2005/01/lost-in-translation.html

I'm going to touch up a piece on the movie that set this off which also deals with this.

[eskimo]

IT TOOK A LIL LONGER DAN I WAS ESPECTIN, BUT TOYOTA FINALLY GOTS BACK TO ME ABOUT ALL DA SHIT DAT BE GOIN DOWN. CHECK IT:

Subject
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READ DIS SHIT, BIATCH


Discussion Thread
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Response (Sean) - 01/27/2005 03:41 PM

Thank you for contacting Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.

We are sensitive to the opinions of our customers and apologize if a Toyota sponsorship has offended you in any way.

Toyotaís decision to advertise on particular programs is based on the level of interest generated by the American public, not the subject matter contained in the program. We make every effort to screen broadcasts considered to contain controversial issues, however we had no prior knowledge of the radio station's intent to air ìThe Tsunami Songî. Additionally, Toyota advertising stems from three distinct levels; local, regional, and national. This particular advertising was from a TDA (Toyota Dealers Association), which represents the greater New York
Region.

Upon learning of this issue the TDA immediately contacted management at Hot 97 to express their dissatisfaction. As a result, Hot 97 responded with a written apology to the TDA. Our research of the Hot 97 controversy indicates the radio station has ceased the broadcast, issued a public apology, and offered a notable contribution to tsunami relief.

Toyota in no way condones nor supports the messages prevalent in the parody known as "The Tsunami Songî. To the contrary, we take many opportunities to promote cultural and racial diversity, and regarding the tragedy created by the natural disaster, Toyota estimates a nearly four million dollar contribution for tsunami relief efforts from its North American affiliates.

Your email has been documented at our National Headquarters under file
#***********. If we can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact us.

Toyota Customer Experience


Customer (PKC) - 01/27/2005 09:28 AM
FUCK YOU, MUTHAFUCKAS FOR SPONSORIN DAT BULLSHIT DAT BE

Pimp Kim Chee, nicely done, my man.

It would have been nice had they indicated they were pulling their sponsorship but the fact that they acknowledged the problem and took action to express their displeasure to Hot 97 is a step in the right direction.

Thanks for sharing this with us, brother.

[Catatonic]

Todd Lynn Speaks to Hiphopmusic.com
I spoke to Todd Lynn tonight via AOL Instant Messenger for over an hour. I will post the conversation verbatim in its entirety, and let you judge it for yourself. I have only edited his phone number and the identity of a journalist that was mentioned:


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Jay Smooth: Is this Todd Lynn? this is Jay Smooth from hiphopmusic.com
Todd Lynn: yes
Jay Smooth: So you want to give your side of the story?
Todd Lynn: call me dude your rasing some bull$hit
Todd Lynn: I am not a racsist
Jay Smooth: what is bull$hit about it? you are on the song aren't you? and you're on the tape saying "i'm gona shoot some asians" aren't you?
Todd Lynn: Song
Todd Lynn: not really a side just the truth of what happened
Todd Lynn: not reciving anything from you
Jay Smooth: i'm here.. so what is not true about the information I have presented, are you not on the song?
Todd Lynn: you can call me at [***-***-****]
Todd Lynn: Dude I as all of us are very sorry about the song but we are not racsist we made a very bad mistake
Todd Lynn: I understand were you are coming from but trust me no one onthe show is a racsist
Jay Smooth: but it wasn't a mistake when you sang it and recorded it, it wasn't a mistake when you played it on the air, it wasn't a mistake when you played the next day, and then the next day, and the next..
Todd Lynn: That was the Mistake , how many time in your life have you fu-ked up
Todd Lynn: Dude lets have a hate typing open diolouge on the phone
Jay Smooth: if you are willing to have me tape it and put it on the website
Todd Lynn: How can i trust A guy thats been killing me and I do mean killing me all over the world ,the reason most of this $hit got to the point it is is because everbody is not informed on what happened that day
Jay Smooth: so what is the information they dont have..
Todd Lynn: we all are very sorry for the song! very poor tastse and bad judgement but none of us are bigots
Jay Smooth: what was your part in making the song? whose idea was it?
Todd Lynn: What I will tell you is Miss Jones had Nothing to do with the writing are producing of the song are the voicing. she works from home and has been doing that for several months
Jay Smooth: who wrote and produced it?
Todd Lynn: Not Miss Jones
Jay Smooth: does she not speak english? did she not hear the lyrics when she played it, for four days in a row?
Todd Lynn: your way off base with the race $hit, Mistake Dude Bad mistake And we are all very sorry. dont make poor judgement into race thing just by seeing what you have organnized i know you are smarter than that
Jay Smooth: So you don't believe that it is racist to call people chineses? And to say I'm gonna shoot some asians"?
Todd Lynn: This was not even a company thing, It was a badd fu-kup that we apologized for.
Jay Smooth: Actually you have not apologized
Todd Lynn: my comments were taken out of context
Jay Smooth: How can they be taken out of context when we have it all on tape?
Todd Lynn: do you mean Me myself
Jay Smooth: I mean whatever you think is taken out of context
Todd Lynn: let me try and explain again ,dude i am a big black guy who catches hell out here every day trust me I am not racist
Jay Smooth: i am waiting for you to explain but you are not answering anyting
Jay Smooth: if somebvody calls you N*gga, it doesnt matter how many times he says he's not racist
Jay Smooth: what he did is still racist
Todd Lynn: well let s say this you have shut my $hit down.
Jay Smooth: YOU did this to yourself.
Jay Smooth: all i did was tell people what you did
Todd Lynn: if you say so but all you did was jump on a guy that tried to be funny during a argument and like i said came out fu-ked up and out of context
Jay Smooth: so what is the context that is missing?
Todd Lynn: have you ever said nigga before?
Jay Smooth: no, i don't use that word
Todd Lynn: if you have are you racist
Todd Lynn: well good not many cansay that
Jay Smooth: why have you never apologized?
Todd Lynn: Got suspended!
Jay Smooth: you had plenty of time to apologize, on the day miss jones read her apology
Jay Smooth: and you had a week to realize on your own that what you were doing was wrong
Jay Smooth: but NOBODY was sorry until after their backs were against the wall..
Todd Lynn: because the beging of my stament got cut off by the mike s clipping in and out during the argument I did not even know the whole tatement did not go out over the air waves
Todd Lynn: $hit I found out throw all the press and the emails
Jay Smooth what whole statement?
Todd Lynn: the part you did not hear because the mikes went in and out
Jay Smooth: Listen, seriously, you need to come up with a better lie than that. I've been doing radio for 15 years, I know what it sounds like when mics are clipping in and out..
Jay Smooth: You sound ridiculous right now
Todd Lynn: Hot 97 $hit is goofy
Todd Lynn: you dont have to believe me but thats truth listen, I am really taking a beating and regardless of what you think I am very remorsefull and sorry about all this Stuff but Dude I asian family members
Todd Lynn: yo call me dude what you got to lose
Jay Smooth: i will tape a conversation with you and post it, otherwise it is a waste of time
Jay Smooth: you are not answering any questions anyway
Todd Lynn: You are not acomplishing anything by making racist out of people that made a dumb mistake
Todd Lynn: I told you the truth
Jay Smooth: when was it that you realized that the song was racist?
Jay Smooth: and what action did you take?
Todd Lynn: Dude i dont know you and you have already started a smear action against me and never did any secondary work put my name on the web my personal info and just ran with tape $hit you know it had to more to the story than that
Jay Smooth: I didn't put your personal info out, somebody else did that and i deleted it.. and I have not smeared you, I simply showed people what you did.. what do YOU think is the appropriate punishment for waht you did?
Todd Lynn: I am a comedian Check my record i never have once during my act or on the air made any type of racial refferances or derogatory remarks about any race of people
Jay Smooth: What about calling Russell Simmons a coon?
Todd Lynn: Bro I am finished , personally and proffesionally behind all of this so what I think does not Matter
Todd Lynn: That was a caller
Jay Smooth: So you never called Russell Simmons a coon?
Jay Smooth: You know that you are on a radio show, that people tape, right?
Todd Lynn: and once again another subject you are not fully versed on , But you know what we make fun of other people on the radio everyday
Jay Smooth: So you don't think what you did was all that serious, to get this much attention?
Todd Lynn: Dude once again I am a Comedian You know how many people call me a Dumbass nigga everyday calling in when they call in
Jay Smooth: A minute ago you said you never use any racial slurs or derogatory remarks
Todd Lynn: No I think it was very serious! And once again I am Sorry , No I said I was Not A racist
Jay Smooth: So how should you be punished?
Jay Smooth: How will you make it right?
Todd Lynn: I have never made any vicious are millchious racist remarks about any onre
Jay Smooth: Calling the tsunami victims screamng chineses is not malicious?
Todd Lynn: Like I said I am Paying right now Lost My job my Integrity, and made one of the biggest mistakes of my life but really have no ill will to any race of people
Jay Smooth: Aren't you just suspended with pay? you haven't lost your job
Todd Lynn: Look no matter what I tell You , the Ball is already working , like I said a little while ago your just killing aguy that fu-ked up not a racist
Jay Smooth: If you're not a racist why didn't you see anything wrong with those lyrics, when you sang them?
Todd Lynn: Cmon!! dude where do you get your facts
I not trying to plead my case here
whether you admit it are not you indited a fu-kup who made a mistake
Todd Lynn: not a person who hates other races of people
Jay Smooth: you are not anserwing any of my questions.. are you on an unpaid suspension?
Jay Smooth: you say i dont have all the facts, but you dont have any facts to give me
Todd Lynn: I am very sorry For the song and nothing I write or say will be enough for anyone , but for my own sake because I am dealing with what I did and My involvement I am apologizing and am deeply sorry for all of this but that racist bull$hit I aint claiming that
Jay Smooth: Can I post this apology on the website?
Todd Lynn: DUDE YOU ARE A SMART GUY READ THREW THE LINES
Jay Smooth: What good is it to apologize to me? There are millions of people who are offended by what you did.. and you are still saying it was not racist
Todd Lynn: HOW ABOUT THIS I WRITE YOU ONE SO I CAN EXPRESS MYSELF COMPLETLY, BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY ABOUT ME AND NO OFFENCE YOU DONT LIKE ME VERY MUCH
Jay Smooth: I will post verbatim the conversation and apology here.. anything else you want to say you can put it here
Todd Lynn: WELL AS I SAID IT DOES NOT MATTER!
i AM VERY SORY ABOUT THE SONG AS EVERYBODY INVOLED IN THIS IS!! bUT NO WE ARE NOT RACIST WE DID NOT DO THIS TO OPRESS AN PEOPLE OR PUT THEM DOWN
WE fu-kED UP AND WENT TO FAR !
Jay Smooth: Is that all you have to say?
Todd Lynn: your posting this? Why
Jay Smooth: To let your words speak for yourselves.. I have to end the conversation now, but if you change your mind about putting an interview on tape let me know. There is also a reporter from [***] who asked if I knew how to contact you or miss jones, I will put him in contact with you if you are willing to do that. Thank you for speaking with me.
Todd Lynn: no Thanks
Jay Smooth: Alright, is there anything else you want to say to the people who will read this?
Todd Lynn: nah afraid you might twist my words up and it will be the start of a new onslaught of problems more calls to my house more threats .
Todd Lynn: Some how this will come out fu-ked up also
Jay Smooth: You will be able to see in a minute when i post it that nothing is changed. And you can add whatever you want in the comments section as well. Again, if you are willing to put something on tape please let me know
Todd Lynn: man this typing $hit is killing me
Todd Lynn: and I said what I needed to say
Jay Smooth: Alright, thank you again for speaking with me, goodnight
__________________________________________________ ______

What a tool and a moron - can't he come up with something else beyond the standard denials?

The following companies are still advertising:

Verizon Wireless
Babies R Us
Reebok
North Face
H&R Block
Wendy's

Sprint and McDonalds have suspended advertising.

Also, a Fox News morning show anchor woman by the name of E.D. Hill says she supports Miss Jones ariring that racist Tsunami parody song!
Brian Kilmeade, who co-host Fox and friends with her, said "it's funny and a good song".

In addition, did anyone see the comedy sketch on BET about how black people weren't dumb enough to die in 9/11 because they would've left after the first plane attack?

[eskimo]

Update: They held a protest rally on Friday, 1/28, in front of the Hot 97 studios. And as a result of additional pressure from NY public officials, more sponsors have suspended/cancelled their accounts from Hot 97, including Coca-Cola, Toyota, Reebok, H&R Block, and Babies R Us.

Here's a link to HipHop Music's home page that has additional information and some pictures of the rally:

http://www.hiphopmusic.com/

Feel the Power of the Current!

[Dialectic]

This is great to see happen. We're not apathetic! Some nice signs/ photos, too.

[angi]

What about that stupid movie made about Africans way back in the day... I forgot the name, but they created this fake language with clicking noises...

I have to make a HUGE correction here. The movie was "The Gods Must be Crazy." There are two divisions on how to think of the movie. Some feel it made fun of people and others feel it was satire on the complexity of the "modern" world and just how stupid we all are.

Regardless of your stance on the motives behind the movie, the people featured are real people. They are better known as the !Kung san of the Kalahari desert or the ZhunTwasi (multiple spellings.) TGMBC did employ them as actors and they did things outside of their normal realm, but they do talk like that. Unfortunately, the !Kung have been marginalized to what amounts to a reservation and a lot of their old ways of life as hunting/gathering nomads have deteriorated along with their health and spirit.

N'ai is a famous documentary about the !Kung that I reccommend to anyone. It is a very touching film and one of John Marshalls clearest documentaries. (John Marshall is the man who has dedicated his life to filiming the !Kung and letting people know who these people are and what they are currently going through.)

More on John Marshall and the !Kung
http://www.der.org/films/filmmakers/john-marshall.html

[angi]

Hot 97 suspends morning crew over tsunami 'parody'

BY RAFER GUZMAN
STAFF WRITER

January 26, 2005, 4:02 PM EST

Hot 97's controversial song that mocked tsunami victims is claiming some victims of its own.

Show host Miss Jones and her entire morning team were indefinitely suspended Wednesday after a week of growing public outcry -- and after a number of high-profile advertisers began pulling their support from the station.


I don't think Miss Info should be suspended if she was. She did speak out against it. Miss Jones' fatass should be fired and beat down. Stupid bitch.

[ellencho]

Wow, I learned about the !Kung a zillion years ago, and that !K is actually a clicking sound. It's really hard to say if you're not used to it. The teacher who taught the unit would give us a really hard time about not saying !Kung correctly.

[kimtae]

What about that stupid movie made about Africans way back in the day... I forgot the name, but they created this fake language with clicking noises...

I have to make a HUGE correction here. The movie was "The Gods Must be Crazy." There are two divisions on how to think of the movie. Some feel it made fun of people and others feel it was satire on the complexity of the "modern" world and just how stupid we all are.

Regardless of your stance on the motives behind the movie, the people featured are real people. They are better known as the !Kung san of the Kalahari desert or the ZhunTwasi (multiple spellings.) TGMBC did employ them as actors and they did things outside of their normal realm, but they do talk like that. Unfortunately, the !Kung have been marginalized to what amounts to a reservation and a lot of their old ways of life as hunting/gathering nomads have deteriorated along with their health and spirit.

N'ai is a famous documentary about the !Kung that I reccommend to anyone. It is a very touching film and one of John Marshalls clearest documentaries. (John Marshall is the man who has dedicated his life to filiming the !Kung and letting people know who these people are and what they are currently going through.)

More on John Marshall and the !Kung
http://www.der.org/films/filmmakers/john-marshall.htmlThe Gods must be crazy was a great movie and it did make fun of people. It made fun of stupid modern people, political revolutionaries with no real cause, and neurotic white women. I thought the only one who came out of it looking good was the San character.

[silkie]

What about that stupid movie made about Africans way back in the day... I forgot the name, but they created this fake language with clicking noises...

I have to make a HUGE correction here. The movie was "The Gods Must be Crazy." There are two divisions on how to think of the movie. Some feel it made fun of people and others feel it was satire on the complexity of the "modern" world and just how stupid we all are.

Regardless of your stance on the motives behind the movie, the people featured are real people. They are better known as the !Kung san of the Kalahari desert or the ZhunTwasi (multiple spellings.) TGMBC did employ them as actors and they did things outside of their normal realm, but they do talk like that. Unfortunately, the !Kung have been marginalized to what amounts to a reservation and a lot of their old ways of life as hunting/gathering nomads have deteriorated along with their health and spirit.

N'ai is a famous documentary about the !Kung that I reccommend to anyone. It is a very touching film and one of John Marshalls clearest documentaries. (John Marshall is the man who has dedicated his life to filiming the !Kung and letting people know who these people are and what they are currently going through.)

More on John Marshall and the !Kung
http://www.der.org/films/filmmakers/john-marshall.htmlThe Gods must be crazy was a great movie and it did make fun of people. It made fun of stupid modern people, political revolutionaries with no real cause, and neurotic white women. I thought the only one who came out of it looking good was the San character.

Now you guys make me want to watch it.
I saw it when I was really little but at that time did not have the social awareness to notice much.

I remember a couple of years after the original movie the same tribesman became a hit in Hong Kong and the movie industry there got him to make a couple of comedy films, Unfotunately I fear those movies lacks anything beyond face value... I would not be surprise if the movies are racists.

[silkie]

Did the !Kung tribesman sellout?
Hard to judge from my position because if the alternative is to live on a reservation, it is rather hard to take a hardline against someone who's social identity is at a point of extinction...

but back on the subject of the tsunami song:


Also, a Fox News morning show anchor woman by the name of E.D. Hill says she supports Miss Jones ariring that racist Tsunami parody song!
Brian Kilmeade, who co-host Fox and friends with her, said "it's funny and a good song".


Fox news pisses me off to no end.
Who in the fuck aside from the shock jocks and fox news will define their existence in being such assholes???!!!

First off, the song is not even funny as a comedy piece.
But worst of all I think anyone who thinks drowning is funny, I would suggest rounding those assholes up and submerging them in water to see how it feels.

Better yet, how about taking a bulldozer to their posh homes while everyone is at the breakfast table going about their lives.
I would think that after going through something like September 11th that these assholes would understand how it feels to lose someone to something so pointlessly and unneccessarily.
Worst these people lost their family and everything their society have been working for.

What if someone were to write a song about 9-11?
ëSo now you're screwed. It's the hijacked airplane. You better run and kiss your --- awake. Go find your mommy.
I just saw her falling off a building, her head lit on fire."

or

"you could hear god laughing, jump you bitches jump"

And that's excluding the racial slurs!!!! what the fuck does china and chinks have anything to do with south and southeast asia???!!!

I know many have expressed their rage but I just have to put in my 2 cents...

[Sothy]

Yo, that movie was great...

[KeJia Sista]

thats bogus for them to say that shit

Theres a lot of bogus shyt said in rap/hip hop. Maybe if those of us who listen to it challenged them all along it wouldnt come to this.

Ke Jia


i just don;t listen to wack shit, so I haven't come across much.

Do you listen to rap or hip hop stations?
Ke Jia

[KeJia Sista]

This is great to see happen. We're not apathetic! Some nice signs/ photos, too.

We're not apathetic; but there were also a lot of non-Asians who participated in the rally and the many email ; phone calling; and letter-writing campaigns against HotWhitey7 (well thats what they called it on a Korean list I'm on). Solidarity should always be acknowledged.
..

1/28 New York City: Students, Community Leaders Protest Hot 97 Studios, Denounce 'Tsunami Song' Producers
Released 29 January 2005 By Kai Yu, Asian Media Watch

NEW YORK - Today at 10:00 a.m., students held a protest rally in front of Hot 97 WQHT-FM Studios in New York to denounce the production and repeated broadcasts of the racially inflammatory Hot 97 "Tsunami Song," and to hold the radio station and parent company responsible. The song was broadcast on the morning of December 18, sung by the hosts of the "Miss Jones in the Morning Show," and posted on to the Hot 97 website.

The Hot 97 radio hosts demeaned and dehumanized the millions of victims of the South Asian tsunami to the horror of offended listeners. To the tunes of "We Are the World," they sang lyrics containing racial epithets, profanity, and made denigrating references in the name of God.

"You can hear the screaming chinks ... little Chinamen swept away. You can hear 'God laughing swim you b****es swim.'"

While introducing the song, one host is heard saying "I'm going to start shooting Asians."

Students demanded accountability for Hot 97 and parent company Emmis Communications, that the company undergo sensitivity and diversity training, and called for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to impose severe sanctions on the company. The student led protesters wanted to represent the "African-American, Asian/Pacific American, Latino, White, hip-hop, student," and other communities. They rallied until 11:00 a.m. at which point they were joined by a larger group of protesters from a broad coalition of community leaders and organizations.

The 11:00 a.m. protest was organized by legislators and community leaders from:
Asian Media Watch
Cathy Dang-led student group (including New York University students)
City Council of New York
Japanese Americans Citizen League
Korean American League for Civil Action
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
New Immigrant Community Empowerment
Organization of Chinese Americans
... and others
to demand that the management and owners of Hot 97 and Emmis Communications take responsibility for the production and repeated broadcasts of Hot 97's 'Tsunami Song' and to call on the FCC to penalize Hot 97 and Emmis. Members of the City Council of New York have filed a complaint with the FCC. "The company rewards this kind of behavior from their employees so [the radio hosts] need to be fired. But that's not where it stops. Emmis Communications needs to pay and they need to pay dearly for the hurt that they have wreaked on our city, on the country, and across the world," said New York City Council Member John C. Liu at a news conference held at the protest site.

Earlier in the week, students met at the Silk Road Cafe in New York City's Chinatown to begin planning the protest. Led by Cathy Dang and Scott Chong, they were joined by the advisors and facilitators from Jay Smooth of HipHopMusic.com, Asian Media Watch, the Japanese American Citizens League, and others. Student organizers had originally called for a protest at 8:00 a.m. Friday in front of Caroline's Comedy Club where the radio hosts were scheduled to appear. After Hot 97 suspended the hosts and after meeting with a coalition of community leaders, the venue was later changed to Hot 97 WQHT-FM Studios at 395 Hudson Street.

On Friday, December 21, Asian Media Watch reported the story of Hot 97's "Tsunami Song." The New York Post published an article on the efforts of Asian Media Watch on Saturday. Following a news conference held at City Hall, on Monday, December 22, organized and led by New York City Council Member John C. Liu, with the support of other city council members, a representative of New York State Assembly Member Jimmy Meng, Asian Media Watch, and the Organization of Chinese Americans - New York Chapter, news of these horrible broadcasts were picked up by regional and national news outlets.

Ke Jia

[eskimo]

For those who haven't already heard, after Emmis Broadcasting decided to fire Todd Lynn (a co-host of the show and the one who stated he would start shooting Asians) and Rick Delgado (the producer who created the Tsunami Song) and committed to donating $1M to aid in the tsunami relief.

Here's a link to the same HipHop Music site that's been keeping up-to-date on this issue.

http://www.hiphopmusic.com/index.html

But NYC Councilman John Liu et. al. are continuing to keep the pressure on as he's demanding that Emmis up their donation to $10M.

And apparently even Howard Stern denounced the Tsunami Song on his show while the British House of Commons spoke out against it as well after a public outcry from its Chinese and Sri Lankan citizens.

Ahh... the wonders of the ripple effect, even bringing Howard Stern back into the fold.

[KeJia Sista]

Emmis faces the music for radio controversies
NYC station hurts image, profits over tsunami song, rap shooting

By J.K. Wall
Call Star reporter J.K. Wall at (317) 444-6287
jk.wall@indystar.com
http://www.indystar.com/articles/8/232195-2948-223.html

It has been a rough three months at Emmis Communications Corp.

Emmis' Hot 97 (WQHT-FM) station in New York sparked three rallies and
loads of bad press by airing a song mocking victims of the Asian
tsunami and because of a shooting outside its Greenwich Village
offices between backers of two rival rap artists.

Meanwhile, Emmis still is struggling to convince investors on Wall
Street that its radio businesses can grow in the face of competition
from new technologies: satellites, the Internet and iPods.

The end of March seems a world away from early January. Then Chief
Executive Jeff Smulyan hopped atop a sofa to praise his
champagne-sipping employees at Emmis' Indianapolis headquarters after
Fortune magazine named Emmis one of the 100 best places to work.

The celebration came just after Emmis posted strong third-quarter
earnings and just before it announced the acquisition of a radio
station in fast-growing Slovakia.

"You get the good with the bad," Smulyan said. "If you're in business
long enough, you're going to get arrows. We've had more arrows in the
last 60 days than we've ever had."

Indeed. The group that organized the New York rallies now is pressing
advertisers and shareholders to dump Emmis.

"We're about saying to Emmis Communications, 'What you did was wrong,
and you're going to pay a price for it,' " said Rosa Clemente, a
leader of the rally organizer REACH, which stands for Representing
Education, Activism & Community through Hip-Hop.

Hip-hop music has made Hot 97 wildly successful. It is the No. 2-
rated station in New York and has ranked No. 1 among listeners ages
18 to 34 for eight straight years. Along with two other Emmis
stations in New York, it generates annual revenue of $808.2 million.

But Hot 97 has lost "millions" in revenue, Emmis officials said,
because many advertisers stopped buying spots after the station
played a parody called "The Tsunami Song" for four days in mid-
January.

To the tune of "We Are the World," the song contained racial epithets
and included lyrics such as: "Go find your mommy. I just saw her
float by, a tree went through her head. And now your children will
be sold. Child slavery."

Before one airing of the song, one DJ allegedly said, "I'm going to
start shooting Asians." Emmis later fired him and the producer of the
song. DJ Miss Jones, chief of the morning crew that aired the song,
kept her job after she and the show were suspended. Emmis also
donated $1 million to tsunami relief efforts.

But the controversy didn't end. On Feb. 28, rapper 50 Cent played out
his "beef" against fellow rapper The Game during an interview on Hot
97. That led to a shootout between followers of the two rappers,
injuring one.

A week later, Fox News show "Hannity & Colmes" had Rick Cummings,
Emmis' president of radio operations, on air to explain a Hot 97
contest called "Smackfest." It features adult women trading slaps to
win a cash prize.

On March 4, about 200 people rallied in New York's Union Square,
declaring that Hot 97 promotes a racist, violent culture.

In the past, said rally organizer Candice Custodio, Hot 97 DJs have
mocked the plane crash that killed singer Aaliyah, once called rap
impresario Russell Simmons by a racially derogatory term, and
frequently used a certain racial epithet. Hot 97 DJs also play up
"beefs" between rappers, said Custodio, also known as DJ Kuttin
Kandi. She said that led to the 2001 shooting outside Hot 97's
offices between the entourages of Lil' Kim and another rap group.

"There's not a balance of good conscience hip-hop there," Custodio
said. Not everyone wants to hear violent language and women referred
to by sexually derogatory terms, she said.

Tough balancing act

Cummings and Smulyan, however, say Emmis and Hot 97 try hard to
balance responsibility with reality.

"The younger end of the audience is very much interested in these
street records," Cummings said. If Hot 97 doesn't play them, "we run
the potential at some point of being viewed by the audience as a
sellout."

While a certain racial epithet had crept back into on-air banter, he
said, Emmis now has reined it in. Hot 97 staff edits the word and
other offensive items out of songs. They also try to limit the play
frequency of "beef" albums. And Eminem's "Hail Mary 2003" never was
aired at all.

There was no excuse for "The Tsunami Song," Cummings and Smulyan
said, but the furor over "Smackfest" and the shooting is a case of
political opportunism and critics piling on.

If listeners of Emmis' Indianapolis stations find the events at Hot
97 shocking, that's because Emmis doesn't own a hip-hop station here.

"That's the hip-hop culture," Smulyan said. "Do I condone some of the
lyrics in hip-hop music? No. No more than I do Rush Limbaugh's show,"
which airs on Emmis-owned WIBC-AM in Indianapolis. "We reflect
contemporary culture."

The uproar surrounding Hot 97 has not been lost on analysts and
investors who follow Emmis.

Mike Kupinski, an analyst for A.G. Edwards & Co., said the Hot 97
controversy likely will keep Emmis from exceeding its fourth-quarter
revenue forecast, which he says the company was on pace to do.
Analysts have lowered their profit estimates by a penny per share in
the past two months.

What has weighed on Emmis' stock even more heavily is the threat that
new technologies could steal listeners from all radio stations.

Satellite radio companies XM and Sirius have signed up 4.5 million
subscribers, and estimates of Internet radio peg its listenership at
4.1 million.

In addition, MP3 players such as Apple Computer's iPod stand to give
motorists one more option besides listening to the radio. iPods can
even receive one of 3,500 radiolike podcasts by downloading a file
from the Internet.

Traditional radio still dwarfs all these media, drawing nearly 290
million weekly listeners.

But in summer 2004, many analysts sharply downgraded radio stocks,
saying competition from new technologies would slice radio's
traditional annual growth rate of 7 percent to 8 percent in half.

That drove Emmis' stock down from an early 2004 peak of $28.05 to as
low as $17.18 in February. It since has rebounded and closed last
week at $19.69.

"There are a lot of crosscurrents," said Jim Goss, a media analyst at
Barrington Research. "As a result, a rebound in radio ad spending has
not been as aggressive as they would have liked."

Indeed, radio advertising budgets grew 3.5 percent in 2004, slower
than all other media, according to projections made in December by
Universal McCann, a global advertising firm. Internet ad spending, by
contrast, grew 25 percent.

The radio industry has fired back. The Radio Advertising Bureau
undertook a project to quantify the value of radio marketing. And all
major radio firms have contributed more than $28 million worth of
airtime to promote radio listening in a campaign created by the
National Association of Broadcasters.

Radio station operators are also aggressively pushing high-definition
technology. It could improve radio signals to near compact disc
quality. Or a station could divide its bandwidth into two or three
signals, blunting the threat of Internet and satellite, which can
offer hundreds of stations.

Emmis plans to do both, Smulyan said. It has rolled out HD technology
at WIBC-AM (1070) in Indianapolis. It plans to have HD at 17 of its
25 stations by the end of 2006.

"It's become very popular to say, 'Radio's dead.' And yet it's a very
vibrant media," he said. "The beauty of what we do is it's local, and
it's live all the time."
---
Emmis Communications Corp.

ï Emmis Communications Corporation stock quote
ï Emmis Communications Corporation company information

Emmis Communications
ï Founded: 1980
ï Headquarters: 40 Monument Circle, Indianapolis
ï Employees: 3,100
ï Chairman and CEO: Jeffrey Smulyan
ï 2004 revenue: $592 million
ï 2004 profit: $2.3 million
ï Properties: 25 domestic radio stations, 16 television stations, six
magazines and a book publishing unit. Emmis also owns radio stations
or networks in Belgium, Hungary and Slovakia.
ï In Indianapolis: Emmis owns WIBC-AM (1070), WNOU-FM (93.1), WENS-FM
(97.1), WYXB-FM (105.7), Network Indiana and Indianapolis Monthly
magazine.

Advertisers dial down radio dollars

Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications Corp. owns radio and
television stations and magazines. Advertising spending for all three
grew in 2004, but radio rose just 3.5 percent, about half its
traditional growth. Meanwhile, Internet advertising jumped 25 percent
last year.

Emmis business segments by 2004 operating revenue
ï Radio: 48%
ï Television: 39%
ï Publishing: 13%

Advertising dollars budgeted
In 2004 with change from 2003:
Internet
ï $7.1 billion
+25.0% change
Television
ï $61.6 billion
+10.3% change
National magazines
ï $12.1 billion
+6.0% change
Newspapers
ï $46.9 billion
+4.7% change
Radio
ï $19.8 billion
+3.5% change
Source: Emmis Communications Corp., data from Universal McCann

Ke Jia

[AngryEthiopian]

forgot the name, but they created this fake language with clicking noises...

Khoi Khoi is a "created" language? lol. You got to be joking.

The sounds are produced like you would call a horse. Yes, there is a real African language that uses that sound.
Dude, there are languages that use clicking sounds in words... There arn't languages that consist of nothing but clicking. That's like me walking around going "Ching chang kong? Dong wang, do mai?" all day long... Sure, they are sounds from the asian language, but it's meaningless.

[KeJia Sista]

http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=80279
Miss Info Returns To Hot 97

April 21, 2005

Miss Info (Minya Oh) will return to Hip-Hop & R&B station WQHT (Hot
97)/New York but she won't be rejoining the Miss Jones morning show.
Instead she'll host her own weekend show starting April 30,
according to the New York Daily News. Miss Info will be heard
Saturday mornings from 8 to noon. She'll also provide "celebrity
drama" reports on the FunkMaster Flex night show during the hours of
7 and 8 p.m. Monday thru Thursday.

"I am looking forward to being back at the No. 1 Hip-Hop and R&B
station," Miss Info said, according to the Daily News.

Info had been MIA since January, when the morning show aired
a "Tsunami Song" parody, which resulted in two morning members
losing their jobs while everyone except Miss Info was suspended.
Miss Info then criticized the airing of the song prompting Miss
Jones to tell her, "You think you're superior because you're Asian."

Miss Info's attorney, Ken Thompson, said the situation then led to
irreconcilable differences and that his client could no longer work
with Miss Jones. All along Miss Info had expressed interest in
remaining with station despite the situation and the station was
also looking to resolve the issue.

"It's great news," Thompson told the Daily News. "This expands her
opportunities to reach her audience. She'll be great."

-----------------------------------------------------
WQHT brings back its missing Miss

By DAVID HINCKLEY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Miss Info is returning to Hot-97 - and now she has her own show.
Starting April 30, Miss Info (Minya Oh) will be heard Saturday
mornings on WQHT (97.1 FM), from 8 to noon. She will also
provide "celebrity drama" reports in the 7 and 8 p.m. hours on
Funkmaster Flex's show, Monday-Thursday.

"I am looking forward to being back at the No. 1 hip-hop and R&B
station," the former morning team member said yesterday.

Miss Info had been off the air since January, when the ill-
advised "Tsunami Song" parody got two morning team members fired and
everyone except Miss Info suspended.

She did not return when the suspended members came back, however,
largely because of apparently irreconcilable differences with
morning show host Miss Jones.

The two had an edgy relationship, and when Miss Info criticized
the "Tsunami Song" on the air, Miss Jones told her, "You think
you're superior because you're Asian."

Miss Info's attorney, Ken Thompson, said that after this exchange,
Miss Info could no longer work with Miss Jones, but she wanted to
continue with the station.

Thompson also suggested that Miss Info had longstanding concerns
about the racial atmosphere at Hot-97, and while the station never
commented on that, officials there said they wanted to resolve the
whole situation to everyone's satisfaction.

Yesterday's announcement apparently does that.

"It's great news," said Thompson. "This expands her opportunities to
reach her audience. She'll be great."

Ke Jia

[powerislife]

The architect of the Tsunami Song is now getting his own show.

F'cked up!

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2005/07/new_wild_mornin.html

[Le Sheng Liu]

The saddest part is that he'll be running a morning show for Wild 94.9 in the Bay Area. This is a hip-hop/dance station which has one of the highest ratings in Northern Cali. They had a female DJ on their morning show The Doghouse several years back who made on-air comments about Koreans and other people. One of the things she said was that "certain immigrant groups" have gross habits such as picking their noses. It was her fellow DJs (sensing racist implications) who urged her to be honest. Well, she said how she felt and got hounded on-air for it. Angry emails, calls, and letters poured in from listeners immediately. She was practically fired the next day. With this type of response to this situation, I wouldn't expect 94.9 or The Doghouse to hire (of all people) the Tsunami Song guy this time around.

[KeJia Sista]

The saddest part is that he'll be running a morning show for Wild 94.9 in the Bay Area. This is a hip-hop/dance station which has one of the highest ratings in Northern Cali. They had a female DJ on their morning show The Doghouse several years back who made on-air comments about Koreans and other people. One of the things she said was that "certain immigrant groups" have gross habits such as picking their noses. It was her fellow DJs (sensing racist implications) who urged her to be honest. Well, she said how she felt and got hounded on-air for it. Angry emails, calls, and letters poured in from listeners immediately. She was practically fired the next day. With this type of response to this situation, I wouldn't expect 94.9 or The Doghouse to hire (of all people) the Tsunami Song guy this time around.

Its all about the ratings; but keep us posted. At the first racist statement lets hound his azz out of that job too!

Ke Jia

[Catatonic]

Apology - too little, too late?

No doubt the management should also shoulder a large part of the blame -but that in no way excuses Lynn and the rest of his cohorts.


[/quote]Another take on 'Tsunami'

Fired staffer rips Hot 97

By DAVID HINCKLEYDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Todd Lynn doesn't defend the "Tsunami Song" that led to his firing in January from WQHT (97.1 FM).

"A very, very bad mistake," he called it. But he also thinks he's taken too much of the blame.

"Management heard the song and approved it," he said. "After it aired, they said keep playing it. They thought it was great until the protests started. Then they fired me and [producer] Rick Delgado and said, 'We don't condone this,' as if it were all Todd's and Rick's fault. But they did condone it."

The "Tsunami Song," which ran a week on the morning show, was intended as a parody of do-gooder disaster relief projects. But its ethnic slurs and graphic lines about victims sparked a firestorm that reportedly cost Hot 97 several million dollars in ads.

Morning host Miss Jones, DJ Envy and assistant Tasha Hightower were suspended for two weeks. Delgado was fired for writing the song and Lynn primarily because he joked on the air, "I'm gonna start shooting some Asians" - a gag motif he used often, but which he admits was ill-advised this time.

The station also donated a million dollars to tsunami relief, and while critics wanted more, the station has gone forward, regaining its ads and rising slightly in the ratings.

WQHT yesterday issued a statement saying, "Hot 97 stands firmly behind the strict disciplinary actions that followed the unfortunate 'Tsunami Song' incident, which included terminating Todd Lynn."

Delgado was hired last week to produce the morning show at KYLD in San Francisco. Lynn, who has a master's in education and was a teacher before he went into standup comedy, hasn't done so well.

"I was doing the voice-overs for Budweiser. Gone," he said. "A development deal with Buena Vista. Gone. I've lost gigs at comedy fests. It's affected my family, too. I was engaged, and now that's shot all to hell.
"Almost everyone else involved with the song is still there, and I'm getting killed."

That's one reason, he said, he's now breaking his silence on the subject. He's scheduled to appear today with Opie and Anthony on XM Satellite Radio.

The real root of the "Tsunami Song," he said, was Hot 97's "deep fear" about Star coming to a rival station, WWPR (105.1 FM).

"They were terrified of Star," he said. "We were all under constant pressure to push the envelope. They told me to be an antagonist, be 'edgy.' They told me I was the agitator and Miss Jones was the mediator. As long as we didn't violate the FCC, they said, everything was cool.

"When Rick wrote the song, none of us really liked it, but it was the kind of thing they'd been telling us they wanted. This and Smackfest, which was the dumbest thing I ever heard of. So Rick, Envy, Tasha and I sang it. Miss Jones wasn't there. We recorded it on Friday, and on Monday Rick said management told him the lawyers had cleared it and go ahead and play it."

Lynn said that after the controversy erupted, he asked if he could apologize on the air and was told no.

"So I'd like to apologize now," he said. "The song should have been pulled, and I should have been more sensitive." [/quote]

[powerislife]

How much longer do we have to endure this kind of shit? I know violence isnt the answer to everything but all the petitions and letters and complaints we sign/send, at best they'll shuffle people around, move them, suspend them for a while. Their attitudes wont change.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. 10 guys throwing rocks get more coverage than 1000 writing letters. It's not about insensitivity or even our anger, it's about not putting up with this shit anymore.

[Dialectic]

Corporate windows are too high up for rocks ....