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Houston CBS Radio Affiliate 950KPRC Dumps Rather May Cancel CBS Contract
950 KPRC ^ | 9/15/04 | self

Posted on 09/15/2004 3:39:48 PM PDT by Mark Felton

Edited on 09/15/2004 3:42:05 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Just announced on the Chris Baker talk show:

Ken Charles, the Station Manager for 950KPRC in Houston (the largest talk station in Houston) just sent the CBS News VP all his nasty e-mails and told them that CBS will either fire Dan Rather by Monday and come completely clean on the matter or he will take CBS News off the air of his radio stations (he manages two of the largest in Houston).

He took Dan Rather's 4pm top of the hour brodcast off effective immediately and replaced it with Fox news.

He said he will find a way to cancel the CBS contract if they do not resolve this in a manner that retains their credibility as a news source.


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To: Dont Mention the War
KPRC is a Clear Channel station. If CBS starts exerting pressure on Clear Channel, CC's corporate goons may overrule the local station manager.

...or vice versa...

101 posted on 09/15/2004 3:58:33 PM PDT by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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To: Saundra Duffy

Find your local CBS radio affiliate http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/02/broadcasts/main246396.shtml and email this story to them.


102 posted on 09/15/2004 3:58:37 PM PDT by icwhatudo (The rino borg...is resistance futile?)
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To: Buttaboom

I grabbed a Q-tip and cleaned out my ears.


103 posted on 09/15/2004 3:58:56 PM PDT by tiki (Win one against the Flipper)
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To: Mark Felton; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
I just wrote Ken Charles a note of appreciation. Let's hope this has a domino effect.

Tonk...FYI.

104 posted on 09/15/2004 3:59:08 PM PDT by GummyIII (Behind every successful woman... is a substantial amount of coffee. ~Stephanie Piro)
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To: Mark Felton

Now the walls will start to come down!


105 posted on 09/15/2004 3:59:51 PM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)
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To: Mark Felton

106 posted on 09/15/2004 4:00:21 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater (FreedomLoving_Engineer)
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To: Mark Felton
I'm sure that there are not that many listeners anyway. His station ratings will go up with Fox.

Come to think of it, it's probably all a conspiracy cooked up by "the Dan" and C-BS to boost their abysmal ratings.

In the immortal words of John Mellencamp(takes a thug to know one): "This may not be the end of the world, but you can see it from here".

How prophetic, eh Dan?
107 posted on 09/15/2004 4:00:42 PM PDT by RLegacy (You say tomato, I say Yuck Fou)
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To: Mark Felton

Can we listen to this station on the Internet...let's show our support.


108 posted on 09/15/2004 4:00:43 PM PDT by DaughterofEve (W)
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To: Steven W.

My local affiliate heard from me!


109 posted on 09/15/2004 4:00:46 PM PDT by MichiganCheese (We will crush the Girlie-Men and all their spitballs are belong to us!)
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To: Steven W.

My local affiliate heard from me!


110 posted on 09/15/2004 4:00:47 PM PDT by MichiganCheese (We will crush the Girlie-Men and all their spitballs are belong to us!)
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To: All

ACK! KPRC has CBS news on now?!?


111 posted on 09/15/2004 4:01:01 PM PDT by Flyer (Post #47 - A reply that will live in infamy)
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To: Unmarked Package

Yep, many have long complained to KPRC about the CBS news at the top of the hour. Ken Charles needs to be overwhelmed with congratulatory emails for his leadership.


112 posted on 09/15/2004 4:01:03 PM PDT by daybreakcoming
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To: Mark Felton
Yes!

Called the local CBS TV station here. They said they were also trying to do something to correct the situation.......

113 posted on 09/15/2004 4:02:11 PM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: Mark Felton

CBS affiliates.


114 posted on 09/15/2004 4:02:32 PM PDT by Fintan (Oh...am I supposed to read the article???)
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To: Mark Felton
Sent to info@kolnkgin.com, Channels 10/11 in Lincoln/Grand-Island Nebraska.

This is to inform you that unless and until CBS News takes responsibility for the forged memos with which it tried to smear President Bush, or alternately until 10/11 drops its affiliation with CBS, I will no longer be watching your channel. I have already removed your station from the list of channels to which my TV tunes automatically. The integrity of the information my family receives is extremely important to me.

A friend is preparing a list of advertisers on 10/11 News, and I will be contact these advertisers with a similar message.

I hope your station finds a worthier network with which to affiliate.

(Signed with full name and address.)

115 posted on 09/15/2004 4:02:32 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor (www.swiftvets.com: where the truth lives on, after 35 years of Kerry lies.)
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To: tiki
Wow! Juan Williams just agreed with us about the documents.

Yes. Surprised me. But as the panel continued, Juan flipflopped back and forth and finished advocating that the documents' contents, at least, were accurate.
116 posted on 09/15/2004 4:02:42 PM PDT by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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To: SolidSupplySide

Our local Clear Channel station uses ABC news so CBS is not a lock with CC.


117 posted on 09/15/2004 4:02:52 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (hey, hey, ho, ho ... Kerry, sign the one-eight-oh!)
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To: Mark Felton

He needs an out to cancel the contract? How about being a party after the fact to fraud, forgery, etc. How about the reasonable risk of being part of a conspiracy?

Dan Rather is over with. Dead Career Walking.


118 posted on 09/15/2004 4:03:11 PM PDT by kingu (Which would you bet on? Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Haiti and Kosovo?)
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To: Eaker

I didnt know that, thanks for the info.


119 posted on 09/15/2004 4:03:22 PM PDT by 76834
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To: Mark Felton

Da Blabber is an idiot. I wish we could take away his native Texan status. CBS is now trying to explain that the memos were fake, but the message was real. What a bunch of left-wing conspiritory idiots. Not that I ever did before, but I will remember this forever as far as CBS is concerned.

Chris Baker & Ken Charles rule!


120 posted on 09/15/2004 4:03:27 PM PDT by Valkster
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