March 13, 2007
 
Charleston's Bristol Broadcasting Faces Music Over Cancellation of Jerry Waters Show
 
by HNN Staff
 
In what may have been the first picketing of a cancellation of a local talk radio program in Mountain State history, several listeners of the former Jerry Waters Show on WVTS-AM Charleston descended on the Bristol Broadcasting studios during Waters' former airtime of 10 a.m. -- Noon on Monday, March 12, 2007.
 
Waters' show was cancelled abruptly two weeks ago without explanation, though some of the protesters say that station management told them after the demonstration today that Bristol will keep all options open after giving the syndicated Glenn Beck show -- Waters' replacement -- a chance this year.
 
Waters himself was not one of the organizers of the event, saying that he was "too close" to the situation. However, he congratulated his fans for showing their support for local talk radio in the Kanawha Valley.
 
From all reports, the protest was peaceable yet, in the talk radio tradition, vocal.