Boston Radio: WRKO Host Rips Ex-Sponsor Over Illegals

Jeff Kuhner

Looks like WRKO 680 AM morning guy Jeff Kuhner’s rant about big local advertiser Dunkin’ Donuts won’t cost his company any more of the coffee giant’s business, even though he blasted their java as “mud water,” the doughnuts and muffins as “stale” and opined that half the chain’s employees were “illegals.”

But, according to The Boston Herald, that may be because DD’s already pulled most of their ads from Entercom’s stations, dumping WRKO and WEEI and retaining only WAAF.

In case you missed it, Kuhner hammered the cherished local coffee company after its CEO, 
Nigel Travis, called for amnesty for 11 million immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. Kuhner spent a few minutes ripping Travis for the amnesty comments, then went off on the chain’s products and asked whether listeners would boycott Dunks.

“The coffee sucks,” he said. As for the doughnuts and muffins, Kuhner added: “I wouldn’t feed ’em to the sea gulls.”

“I’ll tell you why Nigel Travis, the CEO of D and D, I’ll tell you why he wants amnesty for 11 million illegals,” he said (completely botching, by the way, DDs’ nickname). “I bet half his workforce is illegal.”

Kuhner went on to say that when he visits the Dunks near the Entercom studios in Brighton,
“There’s only one person there who speaks English.”

Michelle King, director of global public relations at Dunkin’ Brands Inc., said the company was “aware of the comments made by the WRKO talk show host.”

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