5 Feet of Fury

TALKERS seminar: Controversy — the line between excitement and disaster

Talkers magazine:

When a supermarket manager and station advertising client complained about what listeners were saying about his store and demanded retractions and free airtime for rebuttal, Horn asked if there was any truth to the listener’s gripes.

Upon finding out there was some truth to it, Horn told him, “What we did was actually give you thousands of dollars in free research which highlighted a weakness.” In the end, “that manager thanked us.”