Fw: Save "Zach's Trax" Campaign

[ivan thomasz]

Dear John,

You might not remember me, but I used to write you postcards asking you to
play records by Singaporean bands such as the Padres on your show. I was
also very thrilled when you granted my request to play "Shot by Both Sides"
by Magazine as a dedication to the bands in the Singapore music scene back
in 1991, I think.

Now, I come to you with another request of a more serious nature. I would
like to enlist your help in getting a local radio personality to get his
recently cancelled show back on Singapore radio.

The radio presenter I'm talking about is Paul Zach, an American journalist
and radio show host who has been playing all sorts of wonderful music,
regardless of genre (just like you) on his show called Zach's Trax, for the
past nine years or so.

You can imagine how appalled Zach's fans were, when the station concerned,
Radio Heart,  summarily cancelled his show without offering any satisfactory
reasons to their listeners.

I appeal to you now to help your fellow presenter continue with his vocation
of informing and entertaining his listeners, by joining in our e-mail
campaign to get Zach's Trax reinstated. The e-mail address of the Head of
Programming at Radio Heart, Bernard Law, is lawcg@.... My
letter to Mr. Law is attached.

For the record, I was also one of those also appealed to the BBC to retain
your esteemed colleague Andy Kershaw. Good on all his fans who fought to
have him back at the Beeb!

Thank you very much for your time and all the best to you and your
colleagues at the BBC.

Regards,

Ivan Thomasz

P.S. Any member of the Peel list at egroups is more than welcome to join in
this campaign.

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 3:20 PM
Subject: Cancellation of Zach's Trax


> Dear Mr. Bernard Law,
>
> It was with great disappointment that I received the news that NTUC radio
has decided to cancel Paul Zach's groundbreaking music show, Zach's Trax,
after more than nine years of serving his faithful fans through NTUC Radio
Heart.
>
> It is even more disheartening because NTUC Radio has not even offered any
satisfactory reasons why Zach's exceptionally entertaining and informative
program was cancelled. This cancellation of the outstanding service Paul
Zach has rendered to his audience through his show, goes against the very
promises of NTUC Radio's mission statement, which is:
>
> "To be a good corporate citizen, which the NTUC family is renowned for,
towards public, community and social projects."
>
> I fail to understand how the controllers of NTUC Radio could be so blind
to the fact that Zach's Trax more than fulfilled NTUC Radio Heart's
promotional statement:
>
> "NTUC Radio Heart is an infotainment station. Listeners hear what's in,
what's hot and what's happening in and around Singapore." (both quotes from
the Radio Heart website),
>
> Because if NTUC Radio is truly committed to serving its listening public,
it wouldn't even consider cancelling Zach's Trax. After all, don't the loyal
fans of Zach's Trax count as Heart's public that it's supposed to serve as a
"good corporate citizen"?

What is more, doesn't Zach's show introduce listeners to "what's in, what's
hot and what's happening in and around Singapore" where music is concerned?
If the hottest alternative music from Singapore and America, or music from
Cuba, that Zach's Trax features, isn't something that's happening in, and
around or outside of Singapore, then I don't know what is.
>
> If anything, far from having his show cancelled, Paul Zach deserves to
receive some tangible award for outstanding services rendered to NTUC Radio
Heart and its listening public from the controllers of Radio Heart.
>
> I, and many other faithful fans of Zach's Trax, do sincerely hope that you
and the rest of the management of Radio Heart will seriously reconsider your
decision to cancel Zach's Trax and reinstate the show with Zach in charge,
sometime very soon.
>
> At the very least, such a positive action on Radio Heart's part will
please a minority of your listeners, no doubt. But you can't deny that we,
the minority, still count as an important part of the public that you're
supposed to serve.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> A most disappointed Radio Heart listener,
>
> Ivan Thomasz
>
> "You can't fool the children of the revolution." - Marc Bolan.
>
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