By monitoring the Stern radio show (we had volunteers taping the show - coast to coast and paid staff going through the tapes to determine advertisers), we were determining who the sponsors of the show were. We were sending 1,000 letters a month to local, regional and national advertisers of the Stern show. Some of the nations most prominent corporations were culpable. But as they received letters urging them to withdraw from sponsoring Stern's filth (we furnished them with specific documentation of his filth), they fled. Light dispels darkness.

Our last national figures were as follows:
Out of 16,548 advertisers written - 15,011 advertisers no longer
advertised. 90% of the advertisers written to withdrew:

http://americandecency.org//email_updates/email12.16.05.htm http://americandecency.org//email_updates/email12.16.05.htm Stern through our efforts from January 7, 2003.

Stern: I’m really happy about spending the next five years in radio. I really am. Ya know. I was really going to give up on it. I got discouraged. I really resent not being able to talk about a lot of the topics I want to talk about it. I don’t like the censorship. And, I’m kinda burned out. But, I’m very excited about the future. ... By now we should have been on across the entire country which I would have been. There is no doubt in my mind that I would have been on in every market in this country of ours but the FCC stopped it cold.
Robin: And not only that it was a struggle holding onto markets.
Stern: Yeah. I’m down to 42 markets. I use to be in 60 something markets. And, now I’m down to 42 because they scare people off. The religious right targets my advertisers. Threatens to boycott them.
Robin: : They start a letter writing campaign saying “Please don’t advertise on this station.”
Stern: In some of the small towns. Local guys who advertise on my show they get religious guys picketing outside of their homes. ... It’s called racketeering. It’s trying to close a guys business down because he doesn’t believe what you believe.
Robin: For making his business decision.
Stern: So it’s gotten so bad. I mean it’s gotten so impossible to operate in this environment. That tis is the smartest thing that I could have done [contracted with satellite radio]

Is Stern leaving because we drove him off the air?

We have resumed our letter writing campaign. Stern is still on the air. There is work yet to be done.

Here are some of Stern's comments about us over the years. Remember we were monitoring Stern on 25 stations from DC, Pittsburgh, LA, Detroit, Chicago, Dallas, etc..

"... Stern radio show - August 7, 2001
Stern: ...I've certainly lost some radio stations within the last five years because of the religious right. They've targeted me and gone against me and actually ruined a lot of my advertising community - my advertising base. Robin: That has nothing to do with ratings though. Stern: So, I have suffered some loses there but it's only because I refuse to conform and refuse do a mainstream kind of show. Ya know. I'm trying to battle the FCC on the one front. And battling the religious right on the other. Every day I receive letters and smear campaigns from the religious right. The radio stations I'm on are begging me to help them. I don't know what to do about it. Robin: We're one of the few shows that get cancelled and we can be #1 at the same time. Stern: Yeah. My family of advertisers are so dear to me. The only thing I can say to my audience around the country is support our advertisers. These are the people who understand our show is entertainment, fun. And that we are being targeted so the religious right can raise money ....

October 14, 1998
Stern:
"... Ah, I've been in the battle for years with them. They have effected my business. They've effected my life. Ah, they send tons of letters to my advertisers. Um, ya know I don't get it. But I know that in some of the smaller markets we're in they're really hassling these people. It's almost like racketeering. ..."