Clear Channel has decided to resume airing ads by the South
Wind Women’s Center that it pulled off the air last month.
According to kansas.com, the company made the decision after reviewing its criteria
for selecting ads and determining that the South Wind ads didn’t violate the
law or Federal Communications Commission standards and weren’t intentionally
hateful or incendiary, Tony Matteo, operations manager for Clear Channel in
Wichita, said Tuesday.
South Wind, which opened earlier this year to offer
reproductive medical services for women, including abortions, had planned to
present petitions to Clear Channel on Wednesday containing 68,000 signatures of
people who wanted the ads reinstated. The clinic is in the building that
formerly housed the clinic of abortion provider George Tiller, who was murdered
in 2009.
The ads first ran on Clear Channel’s KZSN, 102.1 FM, on July
1. They were pulled the same day, said Julie Burkhart, South Wind’s executive
director.
The center was told the station thought the ads were
divisive, she said.
The ads promote the center’s health care services for women
and its physicians but don’t mention abortion. Burkhart said that was
deliberate.
“We wanted to use language that would appeal to the most
people and not offend people who might be opposed to one of the services we
offer,” she said.
Other radio stations in Wichita have been running the ads without any
problems, she said. Clear Channel owns four stations in Wichita , but the center’s ads ran only on
KZSN.
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