On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 05:48:04 -0800 (PST), IBOCcrock
wrote:

Emmis stock from a high of $27 in 2003 to a current low of $4 -
Eduardo!

Was there any effect from the "Tsunami Song" shtunk on their "Hot 97"
station in New York?

After the Boxing Day Tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the Emmis hip hop
station in NYC, WQHT, had a parody of "We are the world" concerning
the Tsunami victims which had all of the good taste of a Don Imus or
Howard Stern with none of the wit. Some protest by people like a
Chinese-American city council member caused some of the advertisers to
leave the morning zoo lineup. How long they left I don't know.

H.L. Mencken once said that no one ever went broke underestimating the
intelligence of the American people and I should guess this goes at
least triple for the audience of morning zoo-type programs.

Another problem that happened with this station was that its landlord,
the Carpenters' Union, tried to evict them because of gun play
involving hip hop musicians, their "possies" and their rivals.