Since last Friday, the station has also been airing two new public service announcements about anti-Asian violence. radio goes, that’s one of the worst things I’ve ever heard,” Aoki said according to a press release.Īoki says Saavedra suggested the station do a two-hour Sunday special with MANAA focusing on the issue of anti-Asian violence. “I told them I’ve been doing this for 29 years and as far as L.A. On May 17, MANAA Founding President Guy Aoki had a phone meeting with Saavedra and Bertolucci.

Assistant Program Director Neil Saavedra and Program Director Robin Bertolucci also told AsAmNews that the sketch was not intended to offend Asian Americans. In an email to Kawamoto, Conway said that the sketch was not an attack on Asian Americans. “No one would dare do anything like this regarding people of a different race but they think they can get away with it with Asians!? Everybody should be treated with the same respect!” “This broadcast would have been very offensive & inappropriate at any time but in the wake of all the anti-Asian hate it is extremely egregious,” he told AsAmNews in an email today. “The imitation was so stereotypical with the character saying “Moshi-moshi” & “Ah-so” type comments in a sing-song voice interspersed with karate screams with gongs gonging in the background,” Kawamoto said to AsAmNews back then. Kawamoto said the sketch involved stereotypical impressions. The sketch, which aired on May 3, involved Conway “interviewing” Yuko Sakamoto, the wife of sportscaster Vic the Brick Jacobs. has been suspended after listeners and organizations like Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) complained about a racist Asian sketch.Ĭonway and producer/voice talent Sheron Bellio will be suspended for a week until June 1st.ĪsAmNews first published a story on the sketch after seeing social media posts from KFI listener Keith Kawamoto. Eastern Time with response from KFI and a KFI listener). (Editor Note: This story has been updated at 3 p.m.

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