Talk:KCNN (FM)

Controversial Edit Reverted
The information about the "public service announcements" (on how to conceal child pornography) were properly sourced, and should not be deleted simply because the owner of the station says that they are no longer relevant. If they were true, they are relevant. If they were not true, then please provide information that contradicts the existing sources. Discuss here on this talk page.

See the conflict of interest policy for making edits at the request of an interested person. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:55, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Who is Jack E. Alexander
My username is BTTHEVOICE. I tried to make an edit to the KAVV page at the request of the owner of the station. I don't care one way or the other what the page says. I'm just the web guy. I just don't understand why I'm being referred to as Jack E. Alexander. I have no knowledge of who that is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Btthevoice (talk • contribs) 05:21, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Nobody anywhere is referring to you as Jack E. Alexander. The fact that you are though, is, well, pretty telling. Softlavender (talk) 05:29, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 September 2018
I am Paul Lotsof and have been the station manager of KAVV Radio since its inception. Much of this writeup is misleading, inaccurate or both. I am particularly concerned about the section on an announcement that I aired on the station between 2015 and 2017 on the subject of child pornography. As written it looks as though I advocated child abuse which has never been the case. Here is a proposed revision which I hope you will consider: KAVV has been owned by Stereo 97, Inc for over 35 years and that’s unusual in today’s radio.

KAVV offers its listeners a unique blend of classic country music and the very newest country releases. The station is one of the few in the nation that still has live local personalities on the air all day long. The station’s staff is extremely stable with three employees having worked for the company for thirty years or more. KAVV also is deeply committed to local news and it reports on city council meetings which even the local newspaper no longer does on a routine basis. Nearly all of the public service announcements are local or regional in nature.

In 2015 Station Manager Paul Lotsof wrote and produced a one minute public service message which called attention to Arizona’s child pornography law. The announcement alluded to the law’s extreme provision which imposes life in prison for people who merely possess photos of nude juveniles in sexually suggestive poses. The announcement went on to suggest that anyone who has such photos not store them on their computer’s internal drive unless they want to  risk spending  the rest of their lives in the state prison. The announcement did not advocate or condone any form of child abuse nor did it advocate the production or distribution of child pornography. Similarly it did not suggest that anyone break the law. After the announcement was aired for two years, in May 2017, the announcement was brought it to the attention of a Tucson television station. The TV station sensationalized the announcement and made it the lead story on several of their newscasts. From there the announcement was given to Phoenix television stations who in turn conveyed it to several news syndication services and the two year old announcement was reported as news nationwide. The Cochise County sheriff said he would pursue criminal charges against the station but the county attorney ruled that no law had been broken as the announcement was free speech protected by the first amendment. Meanwhile the station’s advertisers were subjected to threatening phone calls from all over the nation and several of them temporarily cancelled their advertising. After several days the national interest in the announcement waned and nearly all of the advertisers quickly returned.

In the spring of 2018 the Nielsen radio survey revealed that KAVV was the most listened to radio station in Cochise County. The publicity over the child pornography matter may have been a factor in the station’s ratings surge.

For the past several years KAVV has been for sale along with many other radio stations throughout the nation. Investors are reluctant to buy radio stations for fear of competition from newer digital media. CAVEMANager (talk) 09:51, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Dolotta (talk) 20:15, 26 September 2018 (UTC)