{"id":480607,"date":"2019-01-08T12:56:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=776247"},"modified":"2019-01-08T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:56:31","slug":"two-dallas-radio-stations-ban-r-kelly-following-lifetime-docuseries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/two-dallas-radio-stations-ban-r-kelly-following-lifetime-docuseries\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Dallas Radio Stations Ban R. Kelly Following Lifetime Docuseries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two prominent Dallas radio<\/a> stations publicly announced that they will no longer support R. Kelly<\/a>\u2019s music on Monday. The decision from K104, which plays a mixture of contemporary hip-hop and R&B, and KRNB, which plays R&B reaching back to the Nineties, came in the wake of the six-part docuseries Surviving R. Kelly<\/em><\/a>, which aired last week on Lifetime.<\/p>\n

Calls for radio to remove the singer\u2019s music from their playlists began to take place more than a year ago following an extensive investigation of Kelly by Buzzfeed<\/em><\/a>, and some stations had already taken steps to remove the singer from rotation, including WBLS in New York City and KJLH in Los Angeles. However, the decision by these two Dallas stations, both of which are locally owned by the Service Broadcasting Corporation, suggests that public opinion around the singer\u2019s alleged sexual abuse may be changing among core R&B fans after the airing of Surviving R. Kelly<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A rep for Service Broadcasting Corporation did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cUp against the background of what we know \u2026 where there were girls actually locked up in rooms and urinating in buckets and held against their will, even if they were over 18, [Kelly\u2019s music] just has a different meaning now,\u201d said Claudia Jordan, morning show host for KRNB, during an on-air segment<\/a>. \u201cI just feel like, in good conscience, we just can\u2019t continue to support this guy.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly there are a lot of people out there and what they do in their work\u00a0\u2013 they are talented people\u00a0\u2013 but they have demons,\u201d Jordan continued. \u201cAnd I feel like as a woman that is an advocate for other women \u2026 we cannot support this man anymore. I\u2019ve been a victim of abuse from a man, and it wasn\u2019t as extreme as this. But reading all the comments, we have to at some point take a stance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s comments were echoed by DeDe McGuire, who hosts the morning show for K104, during a segment that aired on local news<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m glad that radio is taking that stance,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cRadio has always played a major role in the black community \u2026 that goes back to the Civil Rights movement. We have to take care of our own. If the courts won\u2019t take care of [Kelly] in terms of punishing him, then we\u2019ll stop playing his music as punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n

While these two stations have taken a stance, the three large radio conglomerates \u2014 iHeartMedia has over 850 stations, Cumulus Media has more than 400 and Entercom has over 200 \u2014 have not yet announced a policy when it comes to playing Kelly\u2019s music. Neither has Urban One, which is currently responsible for 57 broadcast stations in 15 urban markets in the United States and reaches many R&B listeners.<\/p>\n

Reps for iHeartMedia, Cumulus, Entercom and Urban One did not reply to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Project Islamic Hope President\u00a0Najee Ali\u00a0and Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President\u00a0Earl Ofari\u00a0Hutchinson asked both iHeartMedia and Urban One to boycott Kelly\u2019s music during a press conference. \u201cRadio stations and entertainment outlets that continued to play and spotlight and profit off of Kelly\u2019s name, celebrity and music after the revelations came out about his sexual predatorship are just as culpable as him,\u201d\u00a0Hutchinson tells\u00a0Rolling Stone.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Two prominent Dallas radio stations publicly announced that they will no longer support R. Kelly\u2019s music on Monday. The decision from K104, which plays a mixture of contemporary hip-hop and R&B, and KRNB, which plays R&B reaching back to the Nineties, came in the wake of the six-part docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, which aired last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 08:25:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}