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Saturday September 4, 2010 Longtime Nashville radio mainstay Gerry House made the announcement Friday during his show on WSIX that he is ending his morning show on December 15 (read more - CMT) (read more - The Tennessean) Beth Ostrosky came back from a Hamptons beach jog recently with husband Howard Stern and heard screeching brakes and a bang. A baby deer had been hit and thrown onto their lawn. Beth, a certified animal rescuer, comforted the doe while Howard called for help, but sadly it died (read more - NY Post Page Six) Former Oshkosh Radio DJ Richard Kieffer, who used the name Rich Allen on WVBO 103.9 FM will spend two years in Virginia State Prison for soliciting sex from a minor over the Internet (read more - view the video - WFRV TV) Glenn Beck's liberation theology obsession: The Fox News personality is strangely bent on linking the president -- and race -- to liberation theology, evidence to the contrary be damned (read more - Tim Rutten - LA Times) Jay Blackburn, who'd served in Vietnam in combat, died in San Antonio where he and his wife Chancey lived. His major radio achievement was the creation of The Loop in Chicago with his partner Bruce Miller Earle. He and Earle consulted and/or programmed many radio stations in the United States and aboard, working for Art Holt, a radio station broker and station owner whose career goes back to years with Gordon McLendon. Jay authored "The Radio Gypsies" and was a mentor for Claude Hall's eNovel "I Love Radio." "Jay and Bruce Miller Earle were close friends dating back to the 1960s," said Claude Hall, once Radio-TV Editor of Billboard Magazine and later a college profession. "I considered them lovable radio rascals and will miss Jay Blackburn immensely" Faye Fisher, known on the air as Foxy Faye - the first black female radio broadcaster in Shreveport at KOKA - died Thursday (read more - KTBS) Tickets are now on
sale for the 2010 Texas Radio Hall of Fame Induction Celebration
to be held at Tin Hall Creating an impression which lasts. This is forgotten when we obsess on legendary call letters even when the legend is only in our minds, not the audience’s (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) There is no rhyme or reason as to who gets hired and who doesn’t, at least not on the surface. But some digging will often yield a lot of dirt. At one station I worked with a delightful lady. She had no qualifications for her job, but her ex-husband was a major advertiser and he approached the manager asking for a job for the woman he was divorcing. She got the job without even coming in for an interview. Qualifications? Forget about them (read more - Frank Absher - StLMedia) Friday September 3, 2010 Howard Stern told listeners to his Sirius XM radio show that he is “pretty sure” he will leave the satellite radio business when his contract expires at the end of the year, according to the blog Orbitcast (read more - Eric Savitz - Barrons) Pat O'Brien is one of the more recognizable faces and voices in broadcasting. When you watch or see him, you know he's done his homework and you trust his reporting or commentary. If we still had broadcast journalists wearing trench coats and looking like foreign correspondents in the war zone, you'd see O'Brien on the front lines. He's lived life – more on that in a moment – and it underscores his authenticity in his newest role – a "Loose Cannon" alongside Steve Hartman and Vic "The Brick" Jacobs noon-3 p.m. weekdays on Fox Sports Radio and KLAC 570 AM (read more - Gary Lycan - Orange County Register) Western Wisconsin radio disc jockey - Bruce Moores, or Ray Moores, as he's known on the radio - has been arrested for disorderly conduct and is accused of videotaping high school girls changing clothes and was found having sex with an 18 year old in a vacant office - Moores' employer, Maverick Media, said he is on administrative leave (read more - WSAW) KRCL, a nonprofit, listener-supported station in Salt Lake City with a mission "to provide media exposure for music, ideas and viewpoints that are under-represented in mainstream commercial media," has stopped broadcasting locally due to business and technical issues with its transmitter in Wellsville (read more - Jay Patrick - Herald Journal) WCBS-FM (101.1) is in the midst of broadcasting its "Top 1001 Countdown" + This weekend, WRXP-FM (101.9) will broadcast the "Definitive 1019 Songs" of the past three decades as selected by its listeners + WCBS-AM (880) will deliver a weeklong series of reports starting Monday and running to Saturday on how our area is coping nine years after the terror attacks (read more - Ray Edel - Bergen Record) The Last Rodeo Tour with Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn will come to a close at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. While it may be the duo's last concert together, this will not be the end of life on the road for Brooks, who hosts the nationally syndicated American Country Countdown for Citadel Media (read more - Top 40 Charts) News Burps Beasley Broadcast Las Vegas now manages The Oasis 105.7 FM KOAS and 107.9 FM KVGS, two radio stations owned by GGB Las Vegas, LLC. and has promoted Justin Chase to Operations Manager for the FM properties Beasley owns or manages in Las Vegas. In addition, radio veteran Sean Lynch is on board as Program Director of both stations
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Dr. Charles Sophy
with LG
says that parents and young people have a lot to
Radio Lags Behind In Tapping Into Digital Ad Money -- As radio struggles to produce revenue from their digital platforms, sales executives see growing evidence that texting campaigns may be the best way to monetize mobile. That revelation comes as digital ad spend is getting healthier with each passing day (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) Steve Jobs made a lot of product introductions this week. He relaunched Apple TV. Refreshed the Nano line. Launched Ping for iTunes, a social network all about music. He’s on fire. But the one thing you didn’t hear from the Zenmaster is news about the launch of Apple’s new cloud delivery system for iTunes (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) While lagging well behind CDs and digital downloads, vinyl still has a consumer base. One in ten of our respondents say they made a vinyl purchase in the past year, with more activity coming from 18-34s rather than Boomers, the folks who grew up listening to LPs (and even 45s) (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Radio’s Social Media Lessons from Hollywood (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Dave Graveline and the Into Tomorrow team this weekend feature Matt Knox, CEO - DiggersList; Mark Riccobono, Executive Director of the NFB Jernigan Institute - National Federation of the Blind and Noam Bardin, CEO - waze -- On air, online and on satellite radio Thursday September 2, 2010 If a journalist makes up a story and puts it on the airwaves, she'll probably get fired. If a radio personality does it, he might get a promotion. Sounds like I'm in the wrong business. But I digress. Let me explain (read more - Randy Dotinga - North County Times) With a new round of layoffs expected this fall, CBS News is being trimmed to the bone with a dramatic drop in ratings, strange BlackBerry blackouts, and eager suitors for anchor Katie Couric (read more - Rebecca Dana - The Daily Beast) Utah's Deseret News will cut nearly half of its staff and consolidate operations with affiliated television and radio operations - KSL-TV and KSL Radio - to emphasize digital delivery of news on websites and mobile devices (read more - AP) After months spent gathering comments about preserving an open and competitive Internet, the FCC requested more feedback on Wednesday about whether regulations should apply to wireless Internet service (read more - Edward Wyatt - NY Times) First looks at new iPod Nano, Touch, Apple TV, iTunes (read more - Edward C. Baig - USA Today) (read more - Fast Company) Steve Harvey is making his first foray into the game show world -- but the new host of "Family Feud" says his training as a stand-up comic fits snugly (read more - Michael Starr - NY Post) The St. Louis Cardinals and CBS Radio's KMOX have reached a multi-year rights agreement in principle for KMOX to become the flagship station for Cardinals Radio Broadcasts, starting with the 2011 baseball season After four years as assistant program director/executive producer at news/talk WLS-AM (890), Tracy Slutzkin was promoted Wednesday to program director of the Citadel Broadcasting station - You can’t blame them for being a bit rusty after all these years, but Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson got off to a less than elegant start Wednesday as the new 6 p.m. anchor team on WBBM-Channel 2 (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) Arizona Governor Jan Brewer cancels all of the governor’s campaign advertising on KPHO CBS 5 News because of its campaign coverage of her race (read more - KPHO TV 5) Nevada County Broadcasters says it wants to focus on its core market and has sold Yuba City radio station KUBA to Results Radio of Santa Rosa (read more - Ryan McCarthy - Appeal-Democrat) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Dr. Holly Smith
is alerting parents and college-aged people about the problem
Reed Bunzel learned this week that he is one of only 15 American semi-finalists and is looking for votes in the Canadian Club "Hide A Case" contest, searching for hidden cases of CC whiskey around the world A Law Suit Looms Over HD Radio -- A New Jersey law firm that specializes in personal injury is investigating HD Radio. What? (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) From Jimmy Rabbitt
-- The Texas duo of Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery audition for
Lubbock radio station
Glenn Beck's The Blaze Web site -- Is it an "Online Flop"? Conor Friedersdorf says The Blaze is "all heat and no light" (read more - The Daily Beast) (read more - Gloria Goodale - Christian Science Monitor) Apple CEO Steve Jobs did it again yesterday when he announced more product and service upgrades for his products. Radio people are no doubt celebrating the fact that the new Nano will still have an FM chip in them although Touches and Shuffles will continue to have no FM. It may be a moral victory but the Nano/FM has not really increased radio listening. But focus for a moment on the brilliant move Jobs has made in the area of social networking for music (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) How much effort does your radio brand invest in its distinctive voice? How distinctive is your voice, in fact? It’s almost impossible to imagine a distinctive voice that doesn’t in some way involve actual human voices (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) You can’t stop technology, and there’s a tidal wave of change impacting the way that consumers now haul themselves out of bed. For so many, those bells and tones and songs in cell phones are doing the nasty task of getting us going in the morning. But don’t throw that clock radio out just yet (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Those who rely on Arbitron’s ratings as their report card want to believe ratings mean something, that good programming is rewarded with improving numbers, while bad programming is punished with declining numbers. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to happen very often (read more - Richard Harker - Radio InSights) Wednesday September 1, 2010 Final nominees for the nation’s top Country radio stations and broadcast personalities were delivered to Country Radio today, when Steel Magnolia revealed Tuesday for the 2010 CMA Broadcast Personality and Radio Station of the Year finalists live from Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium (read the list of finalists) WSJT-FM has become Play 98.7, Tampa’s newest hit music station - Play 98.7’s playlist and station info are at www.play987.com WWBA 820 AM is canceling the Dave Ramsey Show with VP of Programming Allan Davis saying the station ratings are not where they need to be with Ramsey show in the 2 to 4 p.m. time (read more - WTSP 10 News - Tampa) My name is Glenn Beck, and I need help -- Despite all the words spilled in evaluating Glenn Beck's tent-less revival last weekend, the real meaning may have been hiding in plain sight. Beck's "Restoring Honor" gathering on the Mall was right out of the Alcoholics Anonymous playbook. It was a 12-step program distilled to a few key words, all lifted from a prayer delivered from the Lincoln Memorial: healing, recovery and restoration (read more - Kathleen Parker - Washington Post) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Bob Davis
knows where the creepiest
crawlers are and has the
top 10
cities
Up until now, Sirius has been riding their heavyweight personalities, endless amounts of (mostly) commercial-free music, talk, sports, regional weather and traffic plus exclusive events to capture its sizable audience. Now they are about to offer personalized radio services - the same services available on Pandora, Slacker and Last.fm (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) The other day when I was writing about the NAB plan to surrender to the music industry over a radio tax, one of my readers wrote to tell me about what is going on in Italy in a similar situation. I thought you might be interested (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) 6 Steps to Dramatically Improve and Profit from Online Radio (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) The reality – as we see in PPM and elsewhere – is that there are a lot of women listening to Rock radio. And in fact, if you program, manage or own a Rock station, I’ll bet you there are a lot more women in your loyalty club/email database than you think (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Steve Kosbau has been named Market Manager of Greater Media's Detroit-based radio properties, including WRIF-FM, WCSX-FM and WMGC-FM. He will begin his new position in mid-September MLB Advanced Media has announced a partnership with YouTube to provide free streaming of MLB games within 36 hours of completion along with on-demand feeds of what it terms "every game" from the current season, along with 2009. But before you say "It's about time!", there is that 'catch' (read more - Dave Kohl) Tuesday August 31, 2010 The radio industry's bid to make FM tuners a required element of cell phones and PDAs isn't sitting well with readers of TheStreet. In fact, it took last week's title of dumbest of the dumb (read more - Ross Tucker - The Street) Sarah Palin takes on Brian Williams -- Sarah Palin’s comments on last night’s Sean Hannity Show were dominated by critiques of the media, and one member of the media in particular (read more - OnMedia - Politico) Lincoln Financial, which has had a local marketing agreement with Big League Broadcasting for years, is buying Big League’s assets and wrapping 790 The Zone into Lincoln, which also owns Star 94. (Big League never owned the 790 signal. Lincoln had given them a long-term lease for use of it) (read more - Rodney Ho - Atlanta JC) Celebrating 60 years, radio station KPRS proudly remains a family-owned business (read more - Steve Penn - KC Star Radio Disney executive Michael Riley succeeds Paul Lee as the new president of ABC Family (read more - Kate Stanhope - TV Guide) Saying that he was frustrated with the way the media covered his "Restoring Honor" rally, Glenn Beck is adding budding web mogul to his list of media titles. The radio and TV show host launched Monday a news and opinion website called The Blaze - edited by Scott Baker, formerly of Breitbart TV - that he says will be "a place where you can find breaking news, original reporting, insightful opinions and engaging videos about the stories that matter most" - The only apparent ads for the site as of Tuesday morning were for a new book by former House Majority Leader and tea party favorite Dick Armey and Goldline, a gold-based investment service that has been reported to sell the metal at a markup (read more - Huffington Post) (read more - Forbes) (read more - Politico) Scripps was motivated to invent news radio, but didn’t exactly know how -- 1920: A Detroit station airs what is believed to be the first radio news broadcast. The exact headlines of that day are of no historical significance, but with this local newscast a nascent medium finally conveys a message so compelling that it would soon capture the world’s imagination as only television and the internet would, many, many years later (read more - Wired) Despite a complaint from a Sioux Falls radio station company, Sunny Radio will begin broadcasting this week on FM 92.1 (read more - Jill Meier - Argus Leader) In cadence and content, his Washington rally debriefing Monday on Fox News's "The Glenn Beck Program" was soothing television, with a slideshow that proved theirs was not a choo-choo train trip to the land of make-believe, but a real phenomenon. He called it a miracle. Here's a picture Beck has of Sarah Palin praying for fully 10 minutes, Beck said, "the most beautiful picture of Sarah Palin ever taken," just look at it. Here's one of a man and his young son in a moment of patriotic bliss-out under blue skies. Here are the geese that flew in perfect formation over the crowd just as the rally began on Saturday in front of the Lincoln Memorial. As he stood in his bulletproof vest and prepared to restore America, those geese, Beck said, were a way of knowing that God had noticed (read more - Hank Stuever - Washington Post) Glenn Beck rally attendance has become hotly contested following Saturday's event in Washington. But from Woodstock to the Million Man March, figuring out the number of people who show up at big events has never been easy (read more - Peter Grier - Christian Science Monitor) (read more - David Weidner - MarketWatch) |
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