Fans Fuming Katharine McPhee Treated Unfairly At Washington Radio Station Hot 99.5

June 11th, 2007 by Castina

Washington, DC area Top 40 radio station Hot 99.5, the same station that paid thousands of dollars in Bobby Brown’s back child support only to have the “Tenderoni” singer back out of a deal to appear as a week-long guest DJ, is once again underfire. This time, fans of one-time “American Idol” runner-up Katharine McPhee are outraged that the singer was treated rudely on-air with radio personality Kane .

Kat appeared at the station while she was in the Nation’s Capital for a rally supporting presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Katharine was interviewed by an intern named Ally on The Kane Morning Show. The station had previously agreed not to swamp the singer with any “personal questions.”

Ally began the interview by quizzing Kat about her forty-two year old fossil of a boyfriend. Al then asked if having a boyfriend who was so much older hurt or helped the relationship.

An irritated Kat stated that she did not wish to discuss her private life.

Angry fans have flooded Kane with hate mail, to which he responds:

“Maybe she should have been nicer and been live as she promised.”

“I’m getting increasingly frustrated by e-mails from McPhee fans that don’t know the whole story and are writing me angry e-mails. It makes Kat look bad when ever other word in your e-mail about how you thought we didn’t handle the interview professionally starts with an F.”

“Slam us, go-head,” Kane writes. “We agreed to have her on; we followed the rules. They didn’t tell the truth. Kat could have had a little more fun with Ally. She could have said, ‘You guys know you’re not supposed to ask me personal questions. What’s wrong with you?’ Rather, she just got mad.”

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On June 11th 2007, Jazzy wrote:

Kane is immature. More than that, he’s a liar. The reason why Kat couldn’t be in his studio was because she wouldn’t have been able to make it due to traffic. Her management had scheduled two interviews for that day. The only choice they had was to have Kat do the Baltimore interivew in studio and the DC interview by phone. Either that, or do neither of the interviews. Kane was obviously on an eg0-trip and still is, since he seems to have serviced this story to any media outlet that will run it.

Even so, that does not excuse Kane’s on-air behavior. First of all, the intern should NOT be doing interviews. Secondly, they orchestrated this interview to be nothing but personal questions. Thirdly, Katharine did not lose her cool, despite the disrespect she was getting from Ali.

Here is the interview. Listen for yourself:

http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/WASHINGTON-DC/WIHT-FM/06-6-07%20mcphee%20interview%20with%20commentary.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&MARKET=WASHINGTON-DC&NG_FORMAT=chr&SITE_ID=1802&STATION_ID=WIHT-FM&PCAST_AUTHOR=WIHT-FM&PCAST_CAT=Arts_and_Entertainment&PCAST_TITLE=Kane_On-Demand
On June 11th 2007, MyLove wrote:

Kat fans are the worst. Kat can thank her fans for fucking up her career. Actually, her career was fucked up after her album stopped selling. So long McPhee, enjoy your 15 minutes while you can. Thank you fans!
On June 11th 2007, Charles wrote:

Good article here but the missing ingredient is a link to the podcast of the broadcast:

http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/WASHINGTON-DC/WIHT-FM/06-6-07%20mcphee%20interview%20with%20commentary.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&MARKET=WASHINGTON-DC&NG_FORMAT=chr&SITE_ID=1802&STATION_ID=WIHT-FM&PCAST_AUTHOR=WIHT-FM&PCAST_CAT=Arts_and_Entertainment&PCAST_TITLE=Kane_On-Demand

Fair? Unfair? Entertaining? Listen it yourself and decide.
On June 11th 2007, J wrote:

Isn’t Kane the same guy who begged for attention with the whole Bobby Brown jail thing…someone’s desperate to be the next Ryan Seacrest.
On June 11th 2007, Pheenomenal wrote:

The crudest question of all asked of Katharine by ALi was “Do you find it hard to stay faithful to your BF while you are on the road”. Really. The point is, these questions were designed to upset Katharine as revenge for her team changing the interview from in studio to phoned in at the last minute. Fair enough that this might not have been the best thing for her team to do but is the professional response to that to ambush her with personal questions and have the intern do it so that Kane’s ass is covered? That was cowardly and childish. And then to air the interview with snarky comments by the DJs? Surely schedules get changed all the time when someone is on tour at the mercy of airlines and traffic. Is this always the stations response? Could you not have just accepted the phoned in interview and taken a rain check for the station visit? Then you would have been ahead. Now you will never ever talk to Katharine again. And very soon she will be a huge star.

As for you MyLove and any of the several trolls that are as obsessed with Katharine as her most devoted fans yet for some perverted reason choose to insult her all over the internet - you are going to make yourself ill with your unreasonable hatred of a beautiful and kind and talented young woman. Is it just “mean girl” type jealosy behind all this?
On June 11th 2007, Anna wrote:

that intern was intentionally disrespectful, she knew what she wasn’t supposed to ask (about her personal life) she did it cause the were peeved she didn’t go live. Katharine was not even pissed. she said nothing disrespectful or rude she just sounded…irriated, and had every right TO be. and Kane said she should’ve said ‘You guys know you’re not supposed to ask me personal questions. What’s wrong with you?” That would’ve been a lot worse than the “you’re asking silly questions” that she DID say, in a very nice manner.

spin spin sugar.
On June 18th 2007, hahahahahahahahahah wrote:

to the first poster….”The reason why Kat couldn’t be in his studio was because she wouldn’t have been able to make it due to traffic. ”

Kat herself, claimed that her flight was late, no one ever said anything about traffic.
The interview was hilarious, and Kat needs a lesson or 50 in how to conduct herself. she rarely makes an appearance or gives an interview without some sort of controversy!. Perhaps she ought to just stick to the “i wanna be a porn star” mentality that she seems to be displaying all too often. She just might have a future there