KMEL/ClearChannel apology to Holy Names over Chuy Gomez remarks

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Subject: RE: inappropriate comments
From: "PARKER, DON" <DonParker@clearchannel.com>
Date: Fri, September 24, 2010 5:51 pm
To: @hnhsoakland.org
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Dear....


I have now had the chance to speak to Chuy and hear the comment from
this morning. I agree it was very inappropriate and Chuy agreed that it
was extremely poor judgement on his part. I certainly feel an on-air
apology is necessary, which Chuy agrees with as well. He is hurt that he
has offended so many people with an off-the-cuff comment that was
clearly not thought out ahead of time and was simply stupid. Rather than
wait until next week when he would be on the air again, he felt it would
be better to make the apology sooner than later, which I agree is the
appropriate thing to do.


I want to be sure his apology is heard by as many people possible, so I
am having him record it tomorrow morning and we will run it several
times over the weekend. So it gets heard across a wide range of times,
he will air it first in the 8am hour tomorrow, then again in the 8pm
hour and on Sunday in the 10am hour and the 5pm hour. In addition, he
will be posting a written apology on the home page of our website, which
should be up sometime this evening.


I have also reached out to Holy Names Principal Slyngstad and invited
her to meet with me next week when I return from vacation to see if
there are opportunities for us to help spread word about the school and
the good work they do every day. Chuy expressed his regret over
offending anyone, which is not his style in the nearly two decades he
has been on Bay Area Radio. It's certainly a very unfortunate
situation, but one Chuy himself stated is one he will learn from.


Sincerely,


Don




Don Parker
Program Director/106 KMEL-FM
Director of Operations
Clear Channel Radio/San Francisco
340 Townsend Street
San Francisco, CA 94107