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May 21st, 2003 | Rogue of the Week
 

Jammin 95.5 threepeats!

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First it was the "pink taco." Then poking fun at the mentally retarded. Last week, the morning PlayHouse crew at Jammin 95.5 crossed a new threshold in the quest for higher ratings--mutilated corpses--and picked up an unprecedented third Rogue within three months!

Days after Jammin 95.5 FM general manager Tim McNamara suspended the station's PlayHouse crew for exploiting the developmentally disabled, the crew's website (www.radioplayhouse.com) featured a link to images of two killers dismembering their victim.

The accompanying caption describes how a "biker bimbette" conspired to murder her husband by fellating him on the couch while her lover stabbed him in the neck. As depicted in 12 grisly photographs, the pair then proceeded to sever the dead husband's penis and insert it into his mouth.

According to the website, the photos were used as evidence in the trial and the woman and her boyfriend are currently serving 30 years to life.

The photos did not appear on the PlayHouse site. Instead, visitors were offered a link to the images with the description: "GRAPHIC PHOTOS!!! CLICK HERE to see...." Clicking the link transported viewers to a Swedish website called FlashBack, whose creed is "information wants to be free."

WW first learned about the images on Tuesday of last week and downloaded them on Thursday evening. By Friday afternoon, the link had been removed.

PlayHouse host PK declined to discuss the images. "I'm really not gonna comment and get myself in more hot water," he says.

Station manager McNamara told WW he had not seen the images, but he played down their significance. "The traffic on this [site] is so minimal," he says.

There's a good chance that traffic includes a significant number of kids. The station, owned by Paul Allen, courts the lucrative 12- to 24-year-old demographic, and the PlayHouse draws 58,000 listeners ages 12 to 17 in a typical week, according to Arbitron--roughly a quarter of the entire Portland market for that age group.

McNamara vows to keep the PlayHouse crew on a short leash.

 
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05.30.2003 at 03:50 Reply
lay off they may be tasteless sometimes (hell, often), but they're the most entertatining thing going...and they aren't mean-spirited. they're saying things in a joking way, even if it doesn't come across that way.besides, david walker, your own reporter, is on the show once a week as "the playhouse's movie guy". —jake m

 

07.29.2003 at 10:54 Reply
PLAYHOUSE WHY DOESN'T THE WILLAMETTE WEEKLY FIND SOME REAL NEWS TO REPORT. —LEAH

 

10.05.2003 at 07:39 Reply
Tasteless Jokes! I wrote you people before and still have'nt seen a response to the Playhouse making very tastless about John Ritter and Dale Earnhardt yet printed. For more info contact. —Donna Messina

 

03.10.2005 at 10:00 Reply
JAMMIN 95.5I THINK THAT JAMMIN NEED TO BE MORE CREATIVE IN THEIR OWN MATERIEL, AND THEY NEED TO STOP STEELING ALL OF THE DOG HOUSE WILD 94.9 IDEAS,PRANKS,JOKES, ECT. PLEASE SOMEONE LET THEM KNOW. IT'S JUST SO SAD. WE MAKE FUN OF THEM IN THE BAY FOR NOT BEING ORIGINAL—RUTHIE

 

08.30.2005 at 09:00 Reply
Come on Oregon!Look, Oregon is so uneventful, painfuly boring, and less than interesting! Playhouse is all we have for entertainment. I wish people would STOP trying to make Oregon so conservative. IT'S OT GOING TO HAPPEN...EVER. This place is a haven for pedaviles, meth addicts, homeless people. Really, we need all the entertainment we can get!—Shanna

 

 
 

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