The low down termination of Thaddeus Matthews Show

I think the way The Thaddeus Matthews Show was terminated by KWAM on April 30, 2010, was sneaky and quite underhanded that Legacy Media Memphis would breach his contract and act if they had a reason to do it... Since I started listening in January, Mathews had been stating that he had been paying $1250 per week for the last two years to broadcast his daily radio show. Matthews stated that his payments were made to George Bryant President of Legacy Media Memphis owners of KWAM.

I have my own opinion as to what happen on this subject and I think Matthews brash and no holds barred attitude rubbed many people the wrong way. This is what helped to contribute to the weekly rate increase to $3000 per week. The power move was suppose to make him fail, but instead of the struggle of making the payments Matthews listeners rallied behind him and began making donations to help. The number of commercials that he was airing increased as well!

I believe that what truly was the last straw for KWAM, when Ben Ferguson was released from WREC. The ideal that they could maintain an audience and still receive that added income from Ferguson was more than they could take. It was no secret that Thaddeus stated that he had acquired a radio station and that he was planning on leaving when his contract expired!

So KWAM said that you were going to quit any way in July, get your stuff and go now.

Now this angered Matthews considering that KWAM was not even on the map until his show started airing. He stated that the Arbitron ration showed that his show had beat every talk show during the 4-7 time slot including every thing on his KWAm including all national shows.

Matthews claimed that at the end of his show on Friday, Byrant returned to the station with a show termination letter and copies of his commercial spots in a envelope. The meeting if that's what it is to be called became very tense partly because he had a contract that ends in August and partly because Bryant took a check from Matthews on Thursday for $1000 from a new advertiser knowing that he planned to end the show the next day.

Matthew intends on suing KWAM because he has a contract and their reasoning does not hold water. Matthews said that he can now prove that KWAM and George Bryant conspired to breach his contract and this is why he is suing Bryant and Legacy for $500,000 in damages.

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