Until February of this year I have spent the last 3 years at KWAM broadcasting my show at a rate of $6,000 per month. At the last of January when my year to year contract expired I was informed that the station had been contacted by some political forces that wanted to get me off year and was willing to pay 3 times my weekly @1,500 rate. I was told that to maintain my show I would now have to pay 3,000 per week and had two weeks before the increase would go into affect.
While I have been able thus far to pay the new rate thus far, I know that the station I placed on the map is robbing me which has led me to seek another medium to broadcast. i presently have two deals on the table one which gives me ownership and the other which gives me the option to broker the station for 24 hours a day seven days per week with the option to purchase. I expect one of the deals to close within days.
It is my plan to bring to the airwaves Memphis's first full time Blues format,"Giving you the blues seven days a week not just on Saturdays" This station will be very community involved and return the old days of radio where jocks have the freedom to use "The request line their talent and not be programmed by a machine. The station will also return"THE REQUEST LINE"
$156,000 with no ownership or even the feeling of loyalty is crazy, But I am thankful that their move is making me make a move of my own. My contract with KWAM ends in July and it is my feeling that had I stayed they would want another increase.
The Thaddeus Matthews Show is number one between the hours of 4-7pm having beat out Ben Ferguson at WREC and Jeff Lee at WDIA. At this site the video streaming which is down as the streaming company is creating new features, documentations shows that from February of last year to January of this year over 800,000 persons viewed the show on line.
STAY TUNED BECAUSE BEFORE LONG YOU WILL KNOW WHAT LITTLE MILTON MEANT WHEN HE SAID "HEY, HEY, THE BLUES ARE ALRIGHT
53 comments:
"At the last of January when my year to year contract expired I was informed that the station had been contacted by some political forces that wanted to get me off year and was willing to pay 3 times my weekly @1,500 rate."
I would have thought that those imaginary political forces would have made you a donation to keep your listeners off the air waves of Memphis radio stations since your callers can't handle the English language as spoken on other stations during the late afternoon.
HISTORY'S AM 990 KWAM
When The Thaddeus Matthews Show exits AM 990 KWAM in a few weeks, not only will The Thaddeus Matthews Show be history in its current format, but AM 990 KWAM itself will also be history.
With Matthews gone, you will be able to count KWAM listeners on one hand. These will be listeners whose only other entertainment is watching paint dry.
So good-bye AM 990 KWAM. And good riddance.
Thad, this is very good news. I have followed you on the radio for many years. I hope that businesses large and small will come out and advertise on your station. You are the only one in this area that let the black and white community know what is going on. On one of your future shows would you please talk about the Bass Pro deal. It is nothing but corporate welfare.
A.C. Wharton says that Bass Pro would be a tourist destination. We are in a recession. People can barely buy food and pay their mortgage. He want the Citizens of Memphis to spend 100 million dollars to bring Bass Pro here so that Bass Pro can pay on $35,000 a month in rent. "THE STUPIDITY OF IT ALL". If Bass Pro does not stay we will once again have a renovated
Pyramid with fish on top sitting empty building. Thad would you please pay the song by Queen "Another one bites the dust" for Ben Ferguson.
I wonder if the politicos in cahoots with the bosses at KWAM are really willing to make up the revenue lost to the station when Thaddeus Matthews bows out. It could be that AM 990 will be the only loser in this charade. But, when you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Thaddeus, I just have to say that even though I do not agree with everything that you say I do wish you MUCH success. You are doing great things and as many haters as you have, your followers out number them. As much as I do disagree with some of your opinions, GOD is keeping you!
"I hope that businesses large and small will come out and advertise on your station."
Thus far, the products advertised on the Thaddeus Matthews show haven't been worth having, but then, the listeners don't have any discretion when it comes to finding a decent spot on the radio dial.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME! THIS IS THE BEST NEWS SINCE WILLIE LEFT.
People, do not believe Thaddeus. He is feeding everyone crap cocktails. DO NOT DRINK HIS KOOL AID.
GOOD RIDDANCE FOOL!
hey blackman dont like 10% of what you say, but good luck in your future endeavors
Kwam is just ditching your tired ass show,Admit it fool!
Mike Fleming will fill the slot. It has been a year and his no-compete should be up.
Thug,
You haven't posted zilch about Rev. Benjamin Hooks. You were sitting on your tail working away on this thread at the time three major white owned TV stations covered the funeral of the year insofar as the majority race in this community.
You know what! You just aren't in the same league as those that have been around Rev. Hooks. Nor, are your followers.
The truth is, you are not capable of running a business. Too many bankruptcies prove it. If you did not have political ads now, you would be history.
BUT, you prove that the white man can't hold the black man down anymore. You are your own man and try to earn your own living without depending on the govt to provide you a check. Why can you do it but a large portion of the black community can't? The truth is, they can if they will only get out and work like you and me.
Good luck, negro. Please prove that the black man can do anything he wants to if he will only get out and hustle. I sincerely wish you luck.
Hey Thad,
What's up bro?
No story on your friend Marco McClendon getting arrested for beating up his pregnant girlfriend?
Kharma is kicking its heels up lately heh? I mean, Marco getting arrested, Javier's appointment with the Tennessee Bar, you getting booted from KWAM.
KWAM giving you your walking papers is the best thing that could have happened!
Have some nuts and post this.
543 KWAM HAS NOT ISSUED WALKING PAPERS AND HOPE SINCE IM THEIR MAIN SOURCE OF INCOME THAT WOULD STAY. THE STATION HAS NO SALESPERSON AND NO OTHER PROGRAMMING THAT BRINGS IN ENOUGH INCOME TO MAKE A STATION VIABLE.
AS WITH ANY MEDIA MEDIUM ELECTION SEASON IS ALWAYS GREAT FOR RADIO AND TV AND IN MY CASE I HAVE SOLD A LOT OF ADS AS THIS SITE AND THE SHOW PROVES AND MY RATES ARE NOT CHEAP BUT MORE AFFORDABLE THEN ANY OF THE OTHERS.
IT ONLY MAKES GOOD BUSINESS SENSE TO INVEST $12,000 INTO SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE CONTROL ON 24/7 VS. 15 HOURS A WEEK. I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE STATION LIGHTING A FIRE UNDER ME TO TAKE WHAT I DO TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
MY CRITICS WILL SAY WHATEVER BUT THE SHOW IS NUMBER 1 AND THAT MEANS THAT MAINSTREAM STATIONS LIKE WREC LOST TO ME.
Rule Number One: If you are good at what you do, people will "pay you" to do it.
I knew something was up when you had to pay $6000 per month out of your own pocket to do what "you think" you are good at.
$156,000 flushed down the crapper speaks volumes.
But I will admit, you are VERY GOOD at stirring shit up....too bad it doesn't make you a living or make any real difference in the world. If being a shit stirrer did pay, you would be a millionaire!
So take care Thaddeus.
Thad, Good luck on your new endeavors. Also, can you ask Steve Webster if he knew that his opponent Carmichael Johnson is getting additional help in his race from his wife's appointed staff in the Assessor's office. It has been implied that they will lose their appointment, if they do not commit to 2 days during early voting and on election day. They have been told they have use their own time or else. I find this very interesting, and hope that Steve will as well. This gives his opponent an unfair advantage.
Thad, check out doing a daily podcast....
"AS WITH ANY MEDIA MEDIUM ELECTION SEASON IS ALWAYS GREAT FOR RADIO AND TV AND IN MY CASE I HAVE SOLD A LOT OF ADS AS THIS SITE AND THE SHOW PROVES AND MY RATES ARE NOT CHEAP BUT MORE AFFORDABLE THEN ANY OF THE OTHERS."
It's great to see that you now have some paid advertisers. What happened to the non political advertisers, the ne'er do well lawyers and female toy hucksters. Were they ashamed to advertise with the political bums you promote or was it that you were just tired of letting those non political advertisers huckster for free?
You are right Thaddeus, sometimes we have to take a different road in order to see what God really has for us. Alot of things that go on in Memphis area would not come to light if you hadn't found the facts and reported it over the airways. I thank you for your continued efforts to make a way for all people. Love Ya!
Congratulations on your forthcoming radio station. I hate Constance will no longer sit beside you. I thought you two were making a great team. Please don't bring Mia back to sit beside you. The sound of her voice sickens me.
If Fox decided to cancel their No. 1 show American Idol without reason, you would know that the Fox
network bosses were crazy. It is the same with AM 990 KWAM. The KWAM bosses are in effect cancelling their only effective radio program. And they have got to be crazy.
If Thaddeus Matthews were to announce on his radio show that a billionaire was giving away money at Southland Mall, thousands would converge on the mall property and extra security would have to be called in to control the crowds looking for the free bucks. If another KWAM broadcaster were to make the same announcement, there would be no additional pedestrian or automobile traffic at Southland.
Why? Because nobody listens to those other boring broadcasters on that little stale radio station.
Think about it.
"KWAM giving you your walking papers is the best thing that could have happened!"
Enlightened management gets rid of personell or anything unwanted just as KWAM is getting rid of the racist and perverted talk of the Thaddeus Matthews show.
Disclaimers do not make the point with those who would waste their excessive waiting for the relief check time glued to the radio as do the followers of Thaddeus Matthews and the users of the irrelevant products he advertises. Getting rid of Thaddeus Matthews in the manner of KWAM avoids lawsuits, sit ins and boycotts as practiced by the Obamians.
From this narrative presented by Thaddeus Matthews, KWAM's financial dealings with him border on extortion. If at all possible, Matthews should tell this little obscure radio outlet that he is leaving effective Friday April 23 at 7 p.m. and AM 990 can shove it. "Take this job and shove it. I ain't working here no more."
Time for a change.
"A lot of things that go on in Memphis area would not come to light if you hadn't found the facts and reported it over the airways."
But what Matthews comes up with goes no where. As someone posted, Matthews just stirs up a lot of shit. It's all over him and he doesn't have enough sense to wipe it off. With all the judgements against Matthews, you can only wonder how he prevents his eating money from being attached.
You are an idiot and 99.9% of the stuff you say is nothing but BS. However, I have to give you a big thumbs up for what you said yesterday - you are not going to change your stance or tip-toe around an issue just because of who is in the studio with you. That characteristic is one thing that makes you worth listening to...only occasionally though.
"The KWAM bosses are in effect cancelling their only effective radio program. And they have got to be crazy."
April 23, 2010 7:18 AM
The owner of that station knows what he is doing as he has earned millions. What is your base talent that would permit anyone to turn an ear to hear your opinion? Hosts of other shows on KWAM have national reputations. Who, outside of those in the hood, have ever heard of Thaddeus Matthews or for that matter anyone who has ever tuned into the KWAM shitz disturber, Thug Matthews.
"But, when you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas."
April 21, 2010 1:14 PM
DATS RIGHT, KWAM IS GETTING UP AND SHAKING OFF DEM FLEAS!
THADDEUS, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE TO DO YOUR BARKING, MAYBE MEXICO.
Thad you are and will forever be an IDIOT. thanks for all you think you do and may the Lord have mercy on you sorry soul.
Mr. Matthews,
Why don't you get a real website and stop with the political advertisements? It looks extremely low class. And you can also quit the nonsense about being Jeff and Greg from wdia. We all know it's nonsense fool.
5:11 I WILL BE BARKING FROM DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS VERY SOON WITH THE ONLY ALL BLUES FORMAT IN THE MARKET...AND OF COURSE THE THADDEUS MATTHEWS SHOW IN THE AFTERNOON DRIVE TIME.... IN FRACT FOR YOUR ENJOYMENY I MAY EVEN BRING JANIS FULLILOVE TO THE MIDDAYS... NOW ARENT YOU EXCITED!!!!
AS FOR WDIA THE NUMBERS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.
Anonymous said...
From this narrative presented by Thaddeus Matthews, KWAM's financial dealings with him border on extortion.
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Your logic is so screwed, lol. But oh don't you wish you could blame it on the white cracker.....again. Blame, blame, blame.
Mr. Thad, as a free, proud, African American, freely chose to do his business in this manner.
And as well, he will have to deal with the consequences of his poor decisions.
Man, people always gotta be blaming someone else........grow the fuck up already.
AM 990 KWAM programming stinks, and without The Thaddeus Matthews Show to breathe some life into its boring schedule, it will continue to sink into the sewer as potential listeners change the dial to real radio stations, stations that entertain and hold your attention.
None of the other radio stations ever have to worry about KWAM surpassing them in the ratings. AM 990 should really be labeled a ham radio operation.
April 23, 2010 7:10 AM Anonymous said...
4:10 p.m. April 22, the tea party people are racists stuck in the middle of the 20th century, no more no less.
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And the People on your side (black and white folk) are stuck on the damn plantation, no more no less.
My God, it appears that many black people want to remain dependent and are willfully wanting to remain slaves of the SAME DEMOCRATS who bought, shipped, and enslaved your people and who now want to enslave mine......GUESS AGAIN....NOT HAPPENING ON MY WATCH....TRUE DAT!
So continue your whining and crying and saying stupid shit like you did ........... "damn dem ole mean racist crackas who don't want to give up their freedoms and suck on the gov'ment TIT like I do." Fk that... By the way, your "R" word....it ain't hittin on nnnnnnnnnnnnuuuuthin!!! Like water on a duck's back....or like Hammer said "Can't touch this!" Ha!
So you may want to take a glance in the mirror to see WHO REALLY IS THE RACIST IN THIS 21st century. I'd bet my left nut it isn't the independent-minded folks (who don't want or need Uncle Sam up their anuses in every aspect of their lives) hanging out at Tea Rallies!
As always, just as with the true white racists (your fellow Democrats who have you fooled), with many blacks, it's always about race. You are so brainwashed that you do not see that the "Gone With The Wind" folks are YOUR FRIENDS and fellow members in the Democrat Party!
With Tea Party Patriots...it's about limited government, values, freedoms, and the spirit of personal independence ...IDEAS and a way of life that keeps the Demoncraps without a job and out of power, which is why they are working overtime shitting out the PROPAGANDA that works so well on uneducated minds. And of course, the Democrap Politicians keep dangling more carrots in front of your foolish noses.......you all thinking you are going to get something for free.....and people are steadily falling for it! Newsflash-----Nothing In This World is Free---Got that?
FREE ADVICE - Wise up before it's too late. If you want to continue to be a slave of the Democrat Party then that is your free choice. But I will tell you, it only makes you look more foolish and hateful knocking the people who choose not to be enslaved by these federal government Pimps.
P.S. I belong to NO party so don't even go there. These are PEOPLE LIKE ME....http://www.facebook.com/BlackTeaPatriots
Thaddeus, I wish you all the success with your Blues station!
THE BEN FERGUSON MYSTERY
Why did Ben Ferguson really leave WREC, the White Racist Entertain=
ment Channel? Was he so badly beaten by Thaddeus Matthews during the weekly 4 p.m.-7 p.m. time slot that he decided to call it quits?
The Ben Ferguson Show was as boring as they come, hosted by a young racist with no talent for radio broadcasting or any other
entertainment media.
It is no wonder that Matthews constantly clobbered him in the ratings. And now they have put that skunk Andrew Clarksenior in the old Ferguson time slot, which means WREC listeners will have to listen and hold their noses at the same time.
Maybe when Matthews exits KWAM in a few weeks, the AM 990 clowns will go third-rate and hire boring Ben as a replacement. Now wouldn't that be worth a laugh.
8:36 a.m. April 25 must be living in another country besides these United States of America. For it is the GOP and the teabaggers who would keep black folks and Hispanics on the plantation picking cotton while the white masters reside in air-conditioned comfort in million-dollar mansions.
The GOP and its sideshow teabagger movement are built entirely around a white plantation mentality that should have faded with the end of the Civil War. But racism and bigotry have continued to cloud the American dream for all American citizens as the white racists continue to rage.
There is an interesting article by Lewis Diuguid in this morning's Commercial Appeal stating that
"Opposing Health Care Was Historic
GOP Error." Once again, the GOP is on the wrong side of history.
The GOP has been taken over by right wing lunatics who would rather impeach Bill Clinton for a harmless affair with a White House intern whore than to impeach George W. Bush for lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
But lying is now the hallmark of the GOP: the non-ending lies from the GOP Fox News Network and from the professional hate radio liars like Limbaugh and Hannity.
Any party built on a Joseph Goebbels foundation will eventually disintegrate. Somebody needs to bring truth back as a standard bearer for the once noble party of Abraham Lincoln.
You can't beat WDIA and Bobby Ojay Thad. We are the best. When you get Janice Fullilove, Bobby is going to beat her dress off. Your show want last son.
THADDEUS TO WREC?
One of the posters commenting on The Commercial Appeal website stated that Thaddeus Matthews is close to inking a contract with Clear Channel to do an afternoon 600 show. The poster stated that with AM ad revenue down, WREC needs an established star to pump up its ratings, something that no-talent, boring Ben Ferguson could not do.
If this is true as rumored, wouldn't it be ironic for Thaddeus Matthews to replace Ben Ferguson and add some racial balance to the White Racist Entertainment Channel?
But right now this appears only to be a rumor.
"THADDEUS TO WREC?"
WREC would really go on down the tube like KWAMPD already did.
Thaddeus will be great doing a music station. I'd listen in.
Just as Clear Channel doesn't need white racists, they certainly don't need any black ones.
One of the posters commenting on The Commercial Appeal website stated that Thaddeus Matthews is close to inking a contract with Clear Channel to do an afternoon 600 show. The poster stated that with AM ad revenue down, WREC needs an established star to pump up its ratings, something that no-talent, boring Ben Ferguson could not do.
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If the Star this poster speaks of is so awesome, why isn't he regularly invited on CNN and MSNBC like Ben Ferguson?
Things that make me go hmmmm.
MUSIC RADIO IS AS DEAD AS THE BLUES. WHY WOULD ANYONE BOTHER TO LISTEN WITH ALL THE FREE MP3 AND DIGITAL CABLE MUSIC AVAILABLE?
THE FALL GUY
Why do they regularly invite Ben Ferguson to appear on CNN and MSNBC? It is because they need a fall guy, a fool whose statements are so ignorant and stupid that they can only be laughed at and ridiculed at the expense of the teabagger movement. Ben perfectly fits the profile of a Howdy Doody-looking clown people find amusing.
Ben Ferguson is certainly not on CNN or MSNBC because of his intelligence or his good looks. He appears on these networks because he is a clown without makeup and people love to laugh at his ridiculous statements.
THE FALL GUY
Why do they regularly invite Ben Ferguson to appear on CNN and MSNBC? It is because they need a fall guy, a fool whose statements are so ignorant and stupid that they can only be laughed at and ridiculed ....
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Oh okay. So now I know why FOX always has that short, ugly, fatass, master-race-baiter, Albert "Shakedown" Sharpton, on their program....
They've got to have a "fall guy!" He is the African American's representative - their chance to show the entire world know what all the other races (white, Asian, Hispanic) in the USA have to deal with from ignorant and stupid hateful black racists. Now I understand...thanks for the insight!
Keep up the good work uncovering the corruption, Thaddeus!
THE FALL GUY
Why do they regularly invite Ben Ferguson to appear on CNN and MSNBC? It is because they need a fall guy, a fool whose statements are so ignorant and stupid that they can only be laughed at and ridiculed ....
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Oh okay. So now I know why FOX always has that short, ugly, fatass, master-race-baiter, Albert "Shakedown" Sharpton, on their program....
They've got to have a "fall guy!" He is the African American's representative - their chance to show the entire world know what all the other races (white, Asian, Hispanic) in the USA have to deal with from ignorant and stupid hateful black racists. Now I understand...thanks for the insight!
Keep up the good work uncovering the corruption, Thaddeus!
THE FALL GUY
Why do they regularly invite Ben Ferguson to appear on CNN and MSNBC? It is because they need a fall guy, a fool whose statements are so ignorant and stupid that they can only be laughed at and ridiculed ....
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Oh okay. So now I know why FOX always has that short, ugly, fatass, master-race-baiter, Albert "Shakedown" Sharpton, on their program....
They've got to have a "fall guy!" He is the African American's representative - their chance to show the entire world know what all the other races (white, Asian, Hispanic) in the USA have to deal with from ignorant and stupid hateful black racists. Now I understand...thanks for the insight!
Keep up the good work uncovering the corruption, Thaddeus!
Thaddeus Matthews would not be eligible to shine the shoes of most of the other talk show hosts that sir on KWAM. They are individuals with seven figure incomes not six figure debts with bankruptcy on the horizon. Joe Ford and Thaddeus Matthews when it comes to intellect must be clones.
"Keep up the good work uncovering the corruption, Thaddeus!"
But nothing ever comes of what Matthews uncovers. Could it be that nothing he uncovers holds water?
A challenge, name one thing Matthews uncovered{?}, that resulted in a change for the better. He throws much on the table then walks away.
Good Luck mayne. I know I will listen. YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are regularly featured TV when there is a reason to let a spokesman sound off with racist complaints. It is too bad that the African Americans don't have a better spokesman for their cause than Jesse and Al, a pair that have bad reputations as charlatans.
They surely put decent blacks in a bad light with their self serving and unwelcome comments.
Some of you RACIST scared bastards need to understand what you are talking about. All of Matthews listeners are not from the HOOD! We picked our selves up by your whiteass boot straps and made our own way. To the white and black trailer trash, that should have been dumped in Memphis along time ago, go nail down your trailers it's storm season. Memphis is a evil city and always have been. The day will come when your white ass can't hide behind your fake ass religion and we will destroy all of your ass!
I'm with you,behind you and a fan of your," Thaddeus Matthew Show".
I'm going to bless you with monies
soon. I will contact you.
Leon
we really missu thaddie bear,radio is boring and redundant.
when? please give us adate as to your starting.
Wow, I am actually going to miss having a drive time laugh once in a while! Thaddeus has to be one of the most uneducated men in Memphis. Just read his webpage with all the grammer errors. Wise up, this was about money and money only. Ben Ferguson is a nationally known political talk show host. Thaddeus isn't even close to being in his league! No one out of the Memphis city limits would give Thaddeus the time of day.
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