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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 2001)
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A new program already has been purchased for the same time period next fall. iting low viewership and significant ^advertiser resistance, KGW-TV has can celed Dr. Laura, calling it a financial disaster. A fter M illio ns of H it s , During its four-month run, the highly contro versial daytime talk show regularly was pre W eb S ite S igns O ff empted by paid programming, sometimes as A ndy Thayer, StopDrLaura.com assistant often as three times a week. i i national protest organizer, told Just Out the According to StopDrLaura.com spokes Web site ran out of money and is no longer person Andy Thayer, Portland is the first available for viewing. “It happens when cam paigns peak,” he says. market in the country to cancel the show. “This is what makes this hig news,” he says. StopDrLaura.com, thought by many to be Stations across Canada were the first to can the largest grassroots campaign of its kind, cel the new talk show just weeks after it attracted mostly political neophytes, says debuted. A Philadelphia VHF station later Thayer, who resides in Chicago. His hope is dumped Dr. Laura but had it picked up by a that the thousands of people who participat UHF station, Thayer says. ed will continue to get involved in other “This could be the first step in a rush by political efforts around the country. Thayer other stations to the exit,” he says. “No one thinks most gains in the gay and lesbian wanted to be the first one to buck such a huge community are made as a direct result of what content provider as Paramount/Viacom, so it he refers to as “street action,” or grassroots campaigning. took some courage to be the first one to...open the floodgates.” The site went offline the week of Jan. 8. Stations all over the country moved the Despite that, individuals will continue to moni show from daytime to overnight timeslots, tor and protest the Dr. Laura television talk following the lead of several CBS-owned sta show in cities across the country, he says. “This tions in large cities. Thayer says media campaign has been a great success.” experts involved in the vast StopDrLaura .com cybercampaign thought stations were hesitant to cancel the show completely B uckw alter R eceives because of the power Paramount Television has in the industry as one of the largest pro C ommendation from K atz viders of syndicated shows. rans activist Lori Buckwalter was presented He hopes other stations will follow Port with the Mayor’s Human Rights Award on land’s lead and is guessing they will. “They are Jan. 15 at Jefferson High School. The ceremony losing bucket loads of money in this. There is no way they can make money in that timeslot.” Dr. Laura will continue to be produced by Para mount Television, accord ing to KGW program direc tor Brenda Buratti, but only through the rest of the season. Broadcasting the show during late night wasn’t an option for the station, she says, because of commitments to N B C pro gramming for all but 30 minutes of the schedule. Dr. Laura is an hour-long show. KGW will continue to pay a hefty licensing fee for the program and will run paid programming during the 1 p.m. timeslot to re cover some revenue, ac cording to Buratti. She told Just Out last September when Dr. Laura debuted that the show would run for two years, as long as it stayed in production, re- 1 gardless of the ratings. | Although the contract 1 with Paramount doesn’t “ have language allowing the o cancellation, KGW decid ed to do it anyway. Buratti Lori Buckwalter proudly displays the Mayor’s Human Rights Award says the station is taking some legal risk by completely removing the was part of the 2001 Metropolitan Human show from its schedule. Rights Center Awards, handed out in conjunc The program has been in the spotlight since tion with the celebration of the Rev. Martin its inception. Dr. Laura Schlessinger, one of the Luther King Jr.’s birthday. country’s most popular radio talk show hosts, has Buckwalter, a transsexual, has been a been targeted for more than a year because of strong advocate for the civil rights of sexual her homophobic statements. minorities, especially transgendered people. More than 100 advertisers withdrew their She has served as executive director of the support of her talk show in response to the gender rights advocacy organization It’s Time, T
