Bobby Brown, Hot 99.5 FM Washington

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DC Station Bails Out Brown







In what is likely the saddest excuse for a radio stunt seen at least since January, washed- up pop singer / deadbeat dad Bobby Brown has been bailed out of a Massachusetts jail, thanks to the efforts of a Washington DC station:

Radio station frees Bobby Brown from jail
2nd March 2007, 10:30 WST


US singer Bobby Brown was freed after spending three nights in the Massachusetts jail when a radio station paid the $US19,150 ($24,435) the singer owed in late child support and court fees.

Hot 99.5 FM, which broadcasts in the Washington DC area, intervened following on-air discussions and two days of negotiation with Brown's attorney, said Kane, the host of the station's The Kane Show.

"In exchange for the money, he agreed to be an employee of our radio station for one week," where he will discuss what he did wrong and how he could turn his life around, said Kane, who goes by one name.

"We are going to have a very open and candid conversation."

A judge had ordered Brown held in the county jail in Dedham until he paid up, after constables arrested the singer while he was watching his daughter's cheerleading competition at Attleboro High School.

Brown will travel to Washington DC and be on the air with Kane for the morning show beginning on Monday. He also will make public appearances for the radio station.

Phaedra Parks, Brown's attorney, had earlier said the singer has been struggling to meet monthly payments to Kim Ward, the mother of his two teenage children.

Brown and pop diva Whitney Houston are divorcing after 14 years.

For the station, this is pocket change, the kind of money that might be spent giving away a prize to a listener or making a small outside ad buy.

And while the free publicity for the FM outlet is already tremendous, with global coverage so far, it will do little for Brown other than to encourage him to continue behaving irresponsibly.

UPDATE: Brown can't take the heat, bails out on radio deal after first day.


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