Northern California and Military Families
c/o D.K. Johns & Michele Souza
4120 Douglas Blvd. #306-442
Granite Bay, CA 95746
May 30, 2006
Mr. Jeff Holden
KFBK/Clear Channel
1440 Ethan Way, Suite 200
Sacramento, CA 95825
Re: Boycott of KFBK and the Bruce Maiman Show
Dear Mr. Holden:
We as Marine and Military families are very sadden to learn that Mark Williams is no longer with KFBK, and further that you have decided to turn KFBK into a liberal station by replacing the Emmy Award Winning Mark Williams with liberal Bruce Maiman.
The Military families thought we could always count on KFBK for support with regards to our fundraising efforts, rallies, luncheons, deployments and homecomings for our loved ones who are serving this great Nation in the War on Terror. Obviously with KFBK becoming a liberal station with the hiring of Bruce Maiman, we know now we can no longer count on the support of KFBK for our military men and women and the families who stand behind them. We take this as a personal attack and lack of support against our military men and women and their families.
Therefore, we are calling for a boycott of KFBK and any and all of your sponsors who advertise on the Liberal Maiman show. It is our understanding that KFBK has already begun to lose sponsors with Griffin & Reed Eye Care pulling their advertising from your station. I am sure it will not be long before several other companies pull their advertising as well. We have sent this letter to all of the sponsors who advertise on that show to not support KFBK, because KFBK has turned their backs not only on Mark Williams, but on all the military and their families.
We obviously have no idea as to why you do not want to support your target market in the greater Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley and beyond, which is a conservative market nonetheless. Instead you have decided to turn KFBK into a liberal broadcast media center. Your efforts to turn a station into a liberal station would be better served in the San Francisco Bay Area. This decision was a poorly made decision and a reckless one at that.
In two nights of listening to Mr. Maiman’s show in a one hour segment he had only 3 callers. Mark Williams had 3 callers in 5 minutes with phone lines jammed when he was on the air.
Mark Williams has a far reaching, wide spread, conservative loyal listener base and we are all eagerly awaiting his return on a new station. Mr. Williams has been there for the support of our military men and women and their families. He and his lovely wife Holly have attended our luncheons, greeted our sons and daughters at the airport when they returned home from deployment. Helped us raise money for sending care packages, making condolence books and met the needs we have when our loved ones are deployed. He also had many of them on his show to tell their stories of the great things that are being done in Iraq, as well as he was very instrumental in his support of Move America Forward and the "Cindy You Don’t Speak for Me," tours with Marine Mom Deborah Johns to Crawford, TX and Washington D.C. He is truly missed on KFBK and your station has been left with a tremendous void because Mark Williams is no longer there. Our military and families knew we had a friend in Mr. Williams and that we could always count on him for support when we needed it. He will be missed by all of us.
It greatly saddens all of us that KFBK under your direction Mr. Holden has turned your backs on the support of our military and their families. We only wonder how long sponsors will continue to advertise on KFBK with the direction you are taking it in to try and turn it into a liberal media station. It is sad to know that you ran three other stations into the ground with your misguided efforts there as well and now it seems KFBK is your next victim.
Therefore, we are calling for a boycott of KFBK and any and all of your sponsors who advertise on the Liberal Maiman show. It is our understanding that KFBK has already begun to lose sponsors with Griffin & Reed Eye Care pulling their advertising from your station. We are sure it will not be long before several other companies pull their advertising as well. We have sent this letter to all of the sponsors who advertise on that show to let them know we will not support KFBK or advertisers on the Liberal Maiman show, because KFBK has turned their backs not only on Mark Williams, but on all the military and their families. We have also sent this notice to the numerous military web sites, blogs, Free Republic.com, military magazines, the Bee and the hundreds of sponsors we have around the country to boycott KFBK’s liberal efforts.
Mr. Holden be advised that the military families will not support KFBK or sponsors on the Bruce Maiman show. KFBK and your reporters from his show are no longer welcome at any of our military family luncheons, homecomings, funerals and we will not grant interviews to KFBK any longer.
Sincerely
Michelle Souza
Co-Chair Northern CA Marine Moms & Military Families
Deborah Johns
Co-Founder Northern CA Marine Moms & Military Families
"Cindy You Don’t Speak for Me"
Deborah Johns sent the above to me in an email yesterday with this note:
Please post this letter on any and all websites and blogs that you can. Bruce "Liberal" Maiman is advocating on his show under "Freedom of Speech" the continued protesting at military funerals and for the ACLU to file a lawsuit against the President for signing into law that makes it illegal to protest within 500 yards of a military funeral.Deborah Johns
This new host wants Felps and his ilk to continue to undermine our Military and spew hate to families who have lost loved ones to the War On Terror by harassing them at the funerals.
Oh my.
They might as well go all the way and replace him with an spanish-only-speaking illegal alien for below-minimum wage wages.
BUMP! Thanks for posting this. (..copying and pasting, licking, sticking -mailed)
KFBK chooses a 'contrarian' for night talk
By Sam McManis -- Bee Staff Writer
KFBK (1530 AM), perhaps trying to attract a more politically moderate audience for its weeknight talk programming, has hired Bruce Maiman to replace ousted inflammatory conservative host Mark Williams.
Maiman, 50, has been filling in for Williams on KFBK and for morning talker Phil Cowan on sister station KSTE (650 AM) for the past six months. This is Maiman's first full-time talk-radio job, though he has been a morning disc jockey at stations in Fresno, Salinas and, for a year, at the erstwhile KOOL 101.9 in Sacramento.
"I'd describe Bruce as having a non-ideological approach similar to (KFBK's) Tom Sullivan and (KSTE's) Armstrong & Getty," says Alan Eisenson, operations manager for both Clear Channel stations. "He has a unique ability to talk through shades of gray in an intellectual way.
"I'd like KFBK to be a little more reflective of Sacramento overall to help broaden the station's appeal."
Maiman declined to label himself as conservative or liberal. When pressed, he said: "contrarian." A native New Yorker, Maiman has been a concert pianist and studied musicology at Ohio University. He also has been a New York City cab driver.
"I like to be able to make some waves on the radio and shake things up," Maiman says. "If you can get one person to reassess their positions, no matter whatthey are, that's good."
http://www.sacticket.com/tv_radio/story/14262014p-15075429c.html
I was just looking for an email address to tell KSTE 650 that a Spanish station was bleeding over on their 9PM show. Ironically at the time the speaker was talking about the Constitution boarders sovereignty and the Bill of Rights . I came upon your post. If this guy is all I have read he is (and he is I have heard his tripe on another station)1530 and 650 can say good bye to me
maybe KFBK should think about moving to New York or Massachusetts
Disgusted