Thursday, September 29, 2011

DELAWARE RADIO STATION OWNER SPEAKS OUT ON TYRESE INCIDENT


A few days ago we reported the story on r&b singer Tyrese being kicked out of Delaware radio station Kiss 101.7 on Monday after he expressed his feelings on liquor stores being across from school during his live radio interview. The owner of the radio station Tony Q has spoken out about what he claims really happened on that day & why Tyrese was kicked out of the station. Tony wrote a letter to Tyrese's record label explaining the incident in full detail.

Read the letter below.


Tyrese I have heard enough of your lies. I am the Owner & General Manager of the station that "kicked" you off the air. Now you know full well what the reason was. In case you forgot I will remind you.



When you came into the station I was informed by my staff that you were not in a good mood. You went on the air and said that you wanted to stop and get a Pepsi and a candy bar. I am surprised that you couldn't tell the difference between a convenience store and a liquor store. You proceeded to lecture to the audience that they had to do something about this, that liquor stores should not be near schools. This I do not disagree with but in case you didn’t know, liquor stores as well as schools are controlled by the state. This is the part that upset me. It was the way you spoke on the air. You stereotyped your own culture by calling them “hommies” ect, almost blaming Delawareans for allowing liquor stores to be there. The DJ on the air said to you that this is not the only state that has this problem, your reply was I don't care I am here now in Delaware.

As far as I know there are no liquor stores located across the street from a school. I have it all on tape if you need to be refreshed. What got me very upset was that this was a way for you to promote your event at the University of Delaware. You were having a book signing and you were also going to perform. You know Mr.Tyrese being a black radio station, it’s hard enough getting people to advertise on this format and yet when a performer comes to a radio station as a guest and then uses the airwaves for personal gain is wrong. Why didn't the college, your record company or your management work out some type of promotion to invite the people you were lecturing on the air to attend your event. What you did was made your on air time an info commercial. I do not expect that from a Black performer to use us. Imagine how I felt to find out that Tyrese was going to be performing in our backyard and we didn't even know about it, nor did our listeners. Maybe you found out that day, that it wasn't promoted and you decided to use us rather then support the station that supported you. That's right we were the 1st station in the north east to support your new song.

Also, you have the order of what happened on the air wrong. You came on lecturing to our listeners; you then asked the DJ if we had any listeners. What kind of question was that, asking if we had any listeners? Then you went right into promoting your big night at the University of Delaware. You received the full air time you deserved. We did not cut off your “mike”, we did not let the audience know that the interview was over, but you did. You couldn't wait to “tweet” your words everywhere and let people believe that you were kicked off because you were talking about a liquor store, this was not the reason. You got away with taking advantage of the only remaining independent station in the North East.
It’s situations like this that are killing the Black Division of Record Companies. Do you think for one second if a Pop group was appearing somewhere and that Pop station didn't know about it, what would have happened. That's right; the record of that group would have been pulled. In this case how you acted with your lies, you got your own record pulled from the station. You came to the radio station hot and you left hot. Oh by the way I understand that you made a big deal at the Double Tree Hotel behind the station, something about a room, your mouth got in the way again and they threw you out of there too! You need to check yourself. It could be you.

Now you have taken enough of my energy, I wish you well on getting your records played on the major station chains.
Tony Q
Owner and General Manager
WJKS-FM &FAI-AM

I just don't know what to say about this situation... I support Kiss 101.7 because this is the only urban music platform that we have in Delaware, but I will not support Tony Q rambling on & making excuses & saying that Tyrese is stereotyping his own race by calling them "homies". Obviously Tony knows nothing about the audience that he caters to 7 days a week, I know now that Tony will truly act like a stunt queen because his station made it to TMZ.com which will bring him more popularity.

1 comment:

  1. wow i didnt know this happened and tyrese know better try promoting your single and events maybe you will win more fans back because he has feel off

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