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Tuesday February 9, 2010 In a time when so many of our old favorites are closing, downsizing or moving out of town, it’s good to have an old friend we can count on. WHIO Radio has been with us for 75 years and it is still thriving (read more - Kim Margolis - Dayton Daily News) Great news for fans of Chicago’s No. 1 anchorman: Ron Magers is returning to Roe Conn’s afternoon show on Citadel Broadcasting news/talk WLS-AM (890). Starting Tuesday, the principal news anchor for ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 will be back as a daily contributor during the 3 p.m. hour of Conn’s show (which he now co-hosts with Cisco Cotto) (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) Howard Stern told his satellite radio listeners on Monday that he is considering leaving Sirius – and radio altogether -- to become a judge on “American Idol” (read more - Dylan Stableford's Media File - The Wrap) News Burps
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will launch a new radio program -- at anytime (read more - Denver Post) Monday February 8, 2010 How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl Ad Came Together (read more - Bill Carter - NY Times) (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) WWJD? He'd Skip Most of This Year's Super Bowl Ads: Tim Tebow May Have Stolen the Show With His Ad, but Bob Garfield Thinks Most Marketers Should Have Stayed Home (read more - Bob Garfield - Ad Age) Pete Rose leads off when Andy Furman debuts 5-7 p.m. Monday on "Real Talk" WQRT-AM (1160) after a two-year absence from radio. "Pete called me and said he wanted to be my first guest. How do you say no to Pete Rose?" says Furman, 60, host of WLW-AM's top-rated "SportTalk" show for 18 years (read more - John Kiesewetter - Cincy Enquirer) Iran has detained 7 tied to US-funded radio for spying (read more - AP) (Radio Zammaneh - Iran) "Rush" captures the ‘Spirit of Radio’ at Second City - The comedy troupe premieres a new musical about talk radio personality Rush Limbaugh that follows Rush Limbaugh’s rise from obscurity to fame and extrapolates what might happen with Limbaugh and the conservative movement as far ahead as 2014 (read more - Luke Wilusz - Columbia Chronicle) iBiquity Digital Corporation, the developer of digital HD Radio Technology for AM and FM audio and data broadcasting, today announced its 2010 pricing program for station licensing. The new plan includes reduced license fees and expanded payment options which will simplify radio broadcasters’ migration to digital (read more - iBiquity) Scoring a live, in-studio interview with billionaire mogul Sam Zell seemed like quite a coup for WBBM-Channel 2’s “Monsters and Money in the Morning” last Friday. Unfortunately, the four hosts of the CBS-owned station’s fledgling morning show - Mike North, Dan Jiggetts, Terry Savage and Mike Hegedus - blew it (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) Match-ups less competitive on AM -- Comparing the audiences local radio shows draw to competitors in similar time slots, one thing stands out: The battle of FM morning shows is fierce, whereas it’s a rout among the talk-show hosts on the AM dial, according to the fall 2009 ratings from Arbitron (read more - Dave Roepke - Fargo Forum) WMGK-FM (102.9) morning man John DeBella, a minister in the Universal Life Church, will preside over a Love Boat-style wedding ceremony for 40 couples on Friday on the Spirit of Philadelphia (read more - Michael Klein - Philly Inquirer) The head of News Corp. - Rupert Murdoch - and the editor of The Guardian - Alan Rusbridger - are facing off over whether newspapers should charge for content on the Web (read more - Eric Pfanner - NY Times) It would be hard -- impossible, actually -- to argue that Obama hasn't been accessible to the media, not with his constant television interviews. The man has even done color commentary at a Georgetown basketball game. But the decision to bypass the White House press corps is no accident (read more - Howard Kurtz - Washington Post) Minnesota Public Radio sued the Twin Cities Metropolitan Council after the board approved a light-rail transit project that would send trains past the radio station headquarters' front doors in downtown St Paul (read more - AVVO) On Radio 92.9 it was the acoustic version of “Plush.’’ On WAAF it was “Sex Type Thing.’’ On WXRV “The River’’ it was “Interstate Love Song.’’ On WFNX it was “Plush.’’ I was in the car, flipping through the FM stations, and I heard all four of these Stone Temple Pilots songs. At the same time. This is not rare (read more - Sarah Rodman - Boston Globe) This is not the first time a performance tax has been considered. In both 1971 and 1976, a performance tax bill was introduced in Congress and refused, citing the important promotional value of free radio airplay. In 1995, a similar measure was shot down to avoid jeopardizing what Congress called "the mutually beneficial economic relationship between the recording and traditional broadcasting industries." In both 2008 and 2009, however, pro-radio, anti-performance tax bills known as the Local Radio Freedom Act were introduced in Congress, receiving strong bipartisan support (read more - Reg Wydeven - Appleton Post Crescent) With the exploding popularity of smartphones, wireless laptops, and if Steve Jobs has his way, tablet computers, it's fast becoming a wireless world. But the breakneck growth of all things wireless is threatening to cause a traffic jam of the airwaves that deliver calls, Web searches and video to those data-hungry devices. Left unchecked, that could eventually mean more dropped calls, slower service and a lot of frustrated customers (read more - Mike Zapler - San Jose Mercury News) Cec Heftel, former Hawaii congressman and broadcast industry pioneer, died Thursday in San Diego, according to his family - Among other broadcasting achievments, Heftel has been credited for being a radio-industry visionary for seeing an opportunity to serve the burgeoning Hispanic population in the United States and buying Spanish-language FM stations in Los Angeles. The company, Heftel Broadcasting, later became known as Hispanic Broadcasting Co (read more - Honolulu Star-Bulletin) (read more - John Rook) (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Although they and other politicians have often been on the receiving end of jokes and jibes, the City Council ignored the opportunity for some payback and instead honored Michael Baxendale and John O'Brien better known as the hosts of the top-rated radio show Bax and O'Brien with a proclamation (read more - G. Michael Dobbs - Springfield Reminder) Michael Savage moves to KTRB 860 + Celeste Perry, formerly of KFRC-FM, is hosting mornings on KOFY-TV, popping up between shows ranging from "The 700 Club" to "Maude" and "The Streets of San Francisco," with entertainment notes, viewer e-mails and occasional guests + Fans of Sarah and Vinnie on KLLC (Alice at 97.3 FM) were shocked when they tuned in on Jan. 25 and found them missing (read more - Ben Fong-Torres - SF Chronicle) It appears that Sirius XM Radio CEO Mel Karmazin has pulled off another deal of the decade, and it appears that Sirius XM will not be required to execute its shareholder approved reverse split (read more - Brandon Matthews - SatWaves) Monroe County Circuit Court Judge David Audlin on Thursday rejected most of the allegations in a lawsuit pitting Keys disc jockey Mark "Ryno" Masca against his former employers at US1 Radio (read more - Sean Kinney - Florida Keys Keynoter) Long before the world of computers and iPods radio DJ's with their turntables, vinyl records and access to the stars of the music world powered that era's 'Social Media'. And one African American radio pioneer from the Central Valley is still on the air thanks to California State University's KFSR radio station's weekly Jazz show. Woody Miller is truly a radio pioneer when he serves up the Jazz greats (read more - Nancy Osborne - ABC 30 Fresno) Fox News has placed the full, unedited conversation between Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart online (view the entire and uncut video - Fox News) (read more - view video cuts - Gawker.com) News Burps On the heels of a lawsuit filed by a Florida woman who claims that Michael Irvin, the former Dallas Cowboys receiver, raped her several years ago, ESPN has canceled Michael Irvin's radio show on 103.3 KESN Dallas-Fort Worth (read more - CBS 11 TV) (read more - Robert Wilonsky - Dallas Observer) (read more - Rebecca Lopez - WFAA TV) From Claude Hall --
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-- I'm not much on defining roles for people; I think it's more
about revealing who you are, Who Dat Guy's Top 10 Super Bowls (read more - Ron Jacobs)
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Dorothy Hamill, 1976 Olympic
gold skating medalist, is keeping young and Yesterday's joint appearance with Arianna Huffington on CNN's "Reliable Sources," hosted by the estimable Howard Kurtz, gave me a chance to tell Arianna in person what most people think about her crusade against the Fox News Channel: It is silly. Her focus on a word here and a phrase there is silly. The warning that Glenn Beck or others are "inciting" the public and that this is dangerous is silly (read more - Hugh Hewitt - Washington Examiner) Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon bashed the media's coverage of the tea party movement with unsubstantiated claims of bias during a panel on "Fox News Sunday." "The mainstream media hates the tea party movement almost as much as it hates Sarah Palin," Sammon claimed. "And the reason is simple: that's because both are a threat." Sammon, who previously worked at the Washington Times and Washington Examiner, and now oversees Fox's news coverage out of Washington, offered no examples to go along with his blanket criticism of the press. But it's not the first time that Fox has criticized the media's coverage of the tea party movement or the conservative 9/12 protest (read mroe - Michael Calderone - Politico) Jon Stewart, who already had a reputation for lobbing word grenades at media personalities and outlets that displease him, this week delivered one of the most sustained criticisms of Fox News ever heard on Fox News (read more - Brian Stelter - NY Times) Only 15 percent of advertisers surveyed say they’ll spend their money in traditional media like radio, television, outdoor, magazines and newspapers. The rest of the ad people studied in a new Forrester and Association of National Advertisers survey will shift their budget online into social-media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), search-engine marketing (Google, Yahoo, etc.) and email marketing (read more - Mel Phillips) Five years ago, an interactive radio advertising campaign looked like this: You bought a bunch of spots, and we'd send over the street team, the van, and our tent to your event and hang out with your customers. Of course, you'd get a series of live "cut-ins" throughout the afternoon. Today, interactive has an entirely new meaning (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Charlie Strickland has become the newest partner in Broadcast Affiliate Sales Frank N. Magid died in Santa Barbara, California, on Friday after a courageous battle with cancer at the age of 78 - Over the years, the company worked with all of the major broadcast networks. It was Frank Magid who, based on research his company had conducted, recommended that CBS feature Walter Cronkite as a solo anchorman on the CBS Evening News, catapulting Cronkite to a highly visible and successful career. He played a key role in the development of ABC's Good Morning America, which debuted in 1975, and helped to define the modern network show format and style. Magid urged FM radio stations to move into the AM realm when few believed it represented a real opportunity (read more - Magid.com) David "Paul" Williams - Houston radio personality on KNUZ radio during the 1960's - passed away unexpectedly at his home in Houston on Friday February 5 (read more - Houston Chronicle) Friday February 5, 2010 American Idol Producers Want Howard Stern to Replace Simon Cowell (read more - Cleveland Leader) (read more - NY Post Page Six) There is a particular moment that Tim Westergren lives for. "For me, one of life's biggest thrills is finding a new song that I like," he says. "It's better than sex." Ten years ago, Westergren embarked on a mission to help others experience that same thrill (the former, not the latter) on a regular basis. The result was Pandora, the Oakland-based Internet radio site that now boasts nearly 50 million registered listeners. What separates Pandora from its competitors - some of which predate the company - is the way it builds its playlists (read more - Jim Harrington - Oakland Tribune) "It's great to be back on the air," Doug McIntyre said in response to the news that "Red Eye Radio" returns to KABC/790 AM starting February 8, midnight to 3 am (read more - Gary Lycan - OC Register) New numbers from from Nielsen Media Research say that 9 out of 10 Super Bowl watchers won't be watching in a bar or restaurant. Nielsen also reports that the majority of Super Bowl viewers, some 51 percent, are tuned in for the ads, and not the game (read more - Tim Cuprisin - OnMilwaukee) One hub of activity, and there are a couple here at the Super Bowl, is the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center. It is the central location for all things media-oriented, including the famed Radio Row, which isn't a row at all and isn't only radio (read more - Philly Inquirer) CEOs defend Comcast-NBC Universal deal -- Congress on Thursday began evaluating fears that the proposed combination of cable television giant Comcast Corp. and NBC Universal would further concentrate the nation's media outlets into the hands of a few, and create a corporate colossus that critics contend could crush small competitors and Internet entrepreneurs, while also leading to higher cable bills (read more - Meg James - Chicago Tribune) Verne Lundquist’s courtside chat last weekend with President Barack Obama was his first with a sitting president, although he did interview former President Lyndon Johnson in January 1972 for the Cowboys’ radio network after a Dallas-San Francisco playoff game. Lundquist knew this was a bigger deal, however, when a friend sent him a clipping of him chatting with the president and CBS analyst Clark Kellogg - from the front page of the Times of India (read more - David Barron - Houston Chronicle) Earthworks Entertainment, Inc.'s Hit Parade Radio has signed an exclusive representation agreement with Mike Tyler’s Broadcast Affiliate Syndicators of Dallas (read more - CNN Money) Don Cornelius, former host of the television program "Soul Train," still produces the syndicated musical dance show that he created. VH1 celebrates the rise of the show in 'The Hippest Trip' (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) A special NBC Black History Month lunch spread -- featuring fried chicken, collard greens and black-eyed peas -- sparked a commissary controversy yesterday, but the African-American chef who planned it doesn't understand the fuss (read more - Jeane MacIntosh and Christina Carrega - NY Post) The White House announced Thursday the appointment of Dick Lobo, president and chief executive of Tampa PBS station WEDU-Ch. 3, to head the International Broadcasting Bureau - the government department that runs Voice of America and the broadcast news outlets aimed at Cuba, and Radio and TV Marti (read more - Eric Deggans - St Petersburg Times) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Dr. Bonnie Weiner exposes the
myth about heart disease
and women. It's a The collateral damage from Sarah Palin's broadside against Rahm Emanuel for his "retard" comments keeps spreading. Her spokeswoman today flamed Rush Limbaugh (even after Limbaugh said Palin would know better) and the former Alaska governor also blasted a top aide to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, for whom Palin will soon be campaigning. Now comes an audio clip of Palin ally Glenn Beck having a laugh about paintings of "retarded children" (read more - Robert Schlesinger - US News & World Report) |
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