Friday, June 5, 2009

Snapple, Sonic & Chipotle says No Way to KRXQ


I told y'all about those sons of jackals, KRXQ radio hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States calling transgender children weird and how they needed shock therapy. As soon after that mess was heard, folks were livid and thanks to GLADD, the station was flooded with complaints.

But now their sponsors have stepped up and pulled the advertising from them.
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. The company is responsible for well, Dr. Pepper and Snapple along with 40+ brands including 7UP, Country Time, Crush, Hawaiian Punch, Mott’s, Orangina, Welch’s and Yoo-hoo.

Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc gave us the following statement to share with our supporters:

We found the segment to be offensive and as a result, we are pulling our Snapple advertising from the station.

Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.

The popular restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill was the first to announce pulling their advertising contract from the station.

GLAAD spoke with
SONIC Corp, the largest chain of drive-in restaurants in the country.

SONIC confirmed they pulled all of their advertising from KRXQ as a result of the offensive comments made on the “Rob, Arnie and Dawn in the Morning” show during their May 28 radio segment.


Sonic wants to assure you that the views of this station are in no way related to the views of Sonic. Sonic was alerted to the May 28th segment only yesterday and immediately began researching the segment, show and Sonic’s planned advertising on the station. SONIC in no way condones violence toward children and does not wish to be associated with media content that condones or promotes such activity in any way. We have decided to immediately withdraw advertising from this station and have notified the station of our decision.

Hopefully more companies will step up and teach these fools a lesson.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is very good to hear. I hope they loose all of their advertising!

Anonymous said...

That is very good to hear. I hope they loose all of their advertising!

Greg said...

Ah, but will the radio hosts be fired? Probably not.

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