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Monday August 25, 2008 Edition The calls already are flooding in to his morning show on KOMA-FM 92.5. "We're going to miss you, Danny.” "Are you really retiring, Danny?” A radio and television icon in Oklahoma City since 1950, Danny Williams says he's really retiring Friday, ending a broadcasting career that began in 1947 on an Austin, Texas, radio station (read more - view the video - Mel Bracht - The Oklahoman) It's a digital gold rush. You can "Listen Live" to virtually any radio station in the country - and beyond - As if anyone with a computer doesn't have enough choices when it comes to music sites and radio channels, here comes CBS Radio, making a big move onto the Internet. How big? Although, with 144 stations, it's dwarfed by Clear Channel's 1,200, it's claiming to be the No. 1 radio player online (read more - Ben Fong-Torres - SF Chronicle) WGN's Allison Payne apologized to viewers for slurred speech; saying she was 'not drunk'. The Channel 9 anchor blames lingering effects of mini-strokes (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) He’s been a CIA
subcontractor, a high-profile
Boston area radio personality,
a recording artist and a street-corner singer, but now
Sean Casey
has added retiree to that list. He was way too important to pass without being noted. Sherman (Jocko) Maxwell, who was 100 when he died, is widely considered the first black person to broadcast sports on the radio + Several hosts will be covering conventions of the party to whose philosophy they don't necessarily subscribe, and not surprisingly, they say they often find that the most fun. Afternoon host Sean Hannity of WABC (770 AM) has made that observation, as does his counterpart Steve Malzberg on WOR (710 AM) (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) A new report says traditional radio is prospering in spite of new technologies such as satellite radio, online radio and portable digital players (read more - Canadian Press) In the second edition of Bob Struble’s online column “Thoughts on Radio’s Digital Future,” iBiquity’s CEO encourages radio broadcasters to embrace digital technology, both online and over the air (read more - iBiquity.com) Some folks argue that it's all about the Internet and not at all about anythng else, says (iBiquity's Bob) Struble. It's fair to say, as Struble argues, that we would be foolish to put all our eggs in the Internet basket. Personally, I think what we do on our good-old air has a lot more consequence to our future than anything online, since the brand begins in the ears of our audiences and goes online only from there (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Bob (Struble) makes some very accurate points in his iBiquity press release, most importantly that streaming radio stations on the Internet is not the only way to save “our great industry.” He is absolutely correct in that assessment. Another good point he makes is that radio is a “content developer” (read more - Mel Phillips) Former radio personalities Gary Burbank and Bill Whyte perform a concert together for the first time Sept. 5. "Gary retired in December (from WLW), and I'm looking for a new radio gig, so I thought it would be fun to pair two out-of-work broadcasters with a musical background for a concert," says Whyte, fired last month after 41/2 years at country music WUBE-FM (105.1) (read more - John Kiesewetter - Cincy Enquirer)
"News
Burps" A huge number of texts were sent by the Obama campaign to cell phones all over the world, heralding the decision to select Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential candidate - For the first time in history, this type of momentous news was communicated via text to millions of cell phones (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) I know what you’re thinking. That I’m going to name John Hogan or Farid Suleman as the lesser of the evils just to titillate the masses and coerce them into subscribing to my daily feeds. Now, how could I do that? What I’d like to do is describe some of the characteristics and strategies that I think a radio CEO should adopt in the digital age. I often blister these poor (or should I say rich) incompetents with criticism. Why not step up and offer some positive things so they can criticise me. Turnabout is fair play, after all. One caveat. Don’t take any of this advice. I want to do it and I want to be paid $11 million a year for it like Farid (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) The circus is in town, complete with tents. At the giant media camp by the Pepsi Center, familiar initials like ABC, CBS, NBC are side by side with more exotic ones like NHK (the Japanese television network). The New York Times has staked out one of the largest spaces, while Daily Kos, Pam's House Blend and other bloggers by the hundreds have settled for smaller. High-minded and low, they're all here, Wall Street Journal to Access (read more - Joanne Ostrow - Denver Post) After pleading guilty to a felony charge of hacking into the e-mail accounts of his onetime colleague Alycia Lane, former CBS3 anchor Larry Mendte said he'd had a "flirtatious, unprofessional and improper relationship" with Lane (read more - Emilie Lounsberry - Philly Enquirer) From Tommy Kramer
-- The great movie director John Ford (the idol of, among others,
Steven Speilberg and
The “Mike and the Mad Dog” show was not just a New York institution (it was the highest rated radio show in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic in the afternoon) and a clearinghouse for instantaneous sports opinions. The true genius of Mike and Mad Dog was how they, perhaps better than anyone else, captured the fraught way in which men talk to each other about sports (read more - Bryan Curtis - NY Times) (read more - Ken Schott - Schnectady Daily Gazette) WRMF-FM 97.9 top jock Danny Czekalinski may be off the hook when it comes to allegations of domestic violence -- but the Morning Mouth, his station and his accuser are still dealing with the aftermath. Through his lawyer Friday, Czekalinski accused Jaime Barrett, the registered nurse who lived with him until a late May incident, of trying to shake him down - "It's extortion," said his attorney Gregory Coleman. "She's asked him to pay her $100,000, supposedly to cover her medical bills, and she vowed to make his life miserable until he does" (read more - Jose Lambiet - Palm Beach Post) Entercom has partnered with FlyTunes to deliver streams of its Portland radio stations to mobile phone users. Beginning today, users of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch will be able to listen to streams of KGON 92.3 FM, KWJJ 99.5 FM, KNRK 94.7 FM and KNRK 94/7 Steve Dahl's weekday comedy-talk program will air from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. rather than 5:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., beginning with Monday's "Best of Dahl" show on WJMK-FM 104.3 the CBS Radio outlet and continuing when Dahl and partner Buzz Kilman return from vacation. "Morning drive has shifted, and 5 to 9, I think, is the time to be on," Dahl said (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) From Claude Hall
-- We all had mentors. Sometimes more than one, but someone who
showed us the way. A few days ago, I told a friend in radio what
he’d taught me. I spent more time than usual in my rental car while on travel earlier this month. Because it was equipped with satellite radio, I did something different. I listened to a satellite channel that bills itself as “Real liberal talk radio, Sirius Left [channel] 146” (read more - Mark Hyman - Human Events) Juan "Hollywood" Morato, a DJ at K104.5 FM, was arrested Friday on drug charges. Police said the 26-year-old was found with cocaine and marijuana (read more - Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth) If GenXrs were labeled slackers and the generation of teen angst we might have to start calling Millennials "Generation Happy." That appears to be the finding from a brand new study commissioned by MTV called Happiness (read more - Harve Alan) Young Broadcasting has received a notice of non-compliance from the Listing Qualifications Staff of The NASDAQ Stock Market stating that the company had not regained compliance with the $1.00 per share minimum bid price requirement (read more - Trading Markets)
The
greats and the greatest of Texas radio will be in Fort Worth
at the world famous "Billy Bob's Texas" on Sunday afternoon,
October 26 at 2 pm for the
2008 Texas
Radio
WHOP was selling 1,200 old LP records, after adding a second station to expand its talk radio offerings, and needed to clean out space for a new studio, said Mike Chadwell, station manager (read more - Lexington Herald-Leader) WJEP AM 1020 returns to the airwaves after 20+ inches of rain from Tropical Storm Fay crippled the station along with several others in the area with heavy flooding and wind damage Celebrity physician Dr. Drew Pinsky defended a Pasadena psychiatric hospital, of which he is the co-medical director of the chemical dependency program, that has come under scrutiny for the unexpected deaths of three patients and the rape of a teenage girl in the last five months - Pinsky co-hosts the syndicated radio show "Loveline" and anchors a reality TV series on VH1 that follows celebrity patients in rehab (read more - Rong-Gong Lin II, - LA Times) Daniel Snyder Destroys D.C.'s Sportstalk Radio. It's a strange turn of events that has local ownership gutting the local programming. And the conflict-of-interest monopoly has created a stifling atmosphere where hosts have to tip-toe around the biggest subject in town (read more - Jonathan V. Last - The Weekly Standard) Fifty years ago this month, KUT 90.5 FM first hit the airwaves with "The Eyes of Texas" (read more - Lee Ann Holman - The Daily Texan) From his home studio in Sharpsburg, Scott Pollak records and edits his voice-overs, which also are used in business presentations, in messages that play when phone callers are put on hold, and even for trailers for small, independent movies. He also is a disc jockey for a weekend radio show on 104.7 FM The Fish (read more - Karl W. Ritzler - Atlanta JC) Texas veteran radio personality Curt Lancaster, Texas Farm Bureau Network's director of advertising sales and marketing has been named the recipient of the Texas Extension Specialists Association's award for outstanding support of Extension specialists (read more - High Plains Journal) Darrell Scott and radio station WDVX have had a long, happy relationship. "I love WDVX," says Scott. "They played my stuff before maybe anybody. When I got started, I could count on two fingers the stations that would give me the time of day." The relationship was mutually beneficial (read more - Wayne Bledsoe - Knoxville News-Sentinel) Indications are that 1310 Ticket-ex Greg Williams will make his D-FW radio comeback down the dial at ESPN-FM 103.3 (read more - Barry Horn - Dallas News) "Radio Heard Here": Actions speak louder than Words? (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Radio's glory days of comedy are relived in Elgin (read more - Gloria Carr - Courier-Times) ARBitron numbers for Atlanta, Columbus OH, Kansas City, Miami, Milwaukee, Seattle and Tampa (read the numbers) U.S. Congressman Mike Ross, D-Ark., made a $1,000 contribution Friday to the Two Rivers Museum in Ashdown, where documents from his stint as a local disc jockey are on display (read more - Jim Williamson - Texarkana Gazette) As our business has been confronted with declining revenues, a slowed economy, greater competition, and a younger generation that is far less passionate about radio we have witnessed some very significant belt tightening around the industry. Jobs have been eliminated, combined, or reconfigured to save money. It's not just been on the creative side of the hall either (read more - Harve Alan) Friday August 22, 2008 Edition Federal prosecutors are recommending a nine-year prison sentence for Bernie Ward, the former liberal talk show host on KGO 810 who admitted distributing child pornography, and belittle his claim that he was just doing research for a book (read more - Bob Egelko - SF Chronicle) Radio One has filed an application to transfer the listing of the Company's Class A Shares from The NASDAQ Global Market to The NASDAQ Capital Market (read more - MarketWatch) Former Boston radio host John DePetro is blaming the missus - saying his wife is behind the cheating ratings scandal that boosted his Rhode Island radio show and that he had no idea she cooked the books. WPRO-AM (630) finally broke its silence late yesterday and addressed the cheating scandal two weeks after it broke (read more - Jessica Heslam - Boston Herald)All Comedy Radio I was watching some show on dinosaurs last night and the dino-expert summed up the situation nicely: "There are only three ways the dinosaurs could respond in a time of rapid environmental change," he said. "They could MOVE, they could ADAPT, or they could DIE." As the winds of change swirl around the radio industry, it seems to me these same options apply (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) ARBitron numbers for Buffalo, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, and Pittsburgh (read the numbers) A new poll finds former Saturday Night Live and Air America personality, and Democrat Al Franken in a statistical tie with Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race (read more - Star-Tribune) Radio's Carnac: Many of you ask me what I think the industry will look like in the next five or ten years. It’s always dangerous to predict, but too much fun to ignore. Look back. Could you have imagined five or ten years ago the mess radio is currently in? Paul L. Gleiser could. Who is Paul L. Gleiser? (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media)
"News
Burps" “The Bob & Tom Show,”debuts on WGN America Monday-Friday from Midnight - 1:00am ET beginning on November 3 (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) Okay so the Radio revenues were in the tank again but there must be something good or at least encouraging in those lousy numbers, right? Let’s see. Okay here’s something - local sales were, oops can’t use that. National numbers are usually good - nope, down 7% when combined with local. Network has to be up, they always are. YESSSSS - up 3%. Not great but at least it’s up (read more - Mel Phillips) Underscoring Radio’s ability to adapt to changing media patterns, Off-Air revenue has surpassed last year’s mid-year forecast by the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) and is expected to approach $2B by the end of 2008 – nearly a full year ahead of the predicted timeline (read more - RAB) This post isn't about Michael Phelps (although that's not a bad idea either), but about a new movie that has recently been released. You may have to look hard to find it at a local theater, because unlike Dark Knight or Tropic Thunder, this is one of those "small films" (yes, there are some subtitles) that may be worth your time and a few bucks (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) When I turned on Power-105 to the Ed Lover show the other morning and heard him introduce "Sanjaya," I just assumed this was one of those odd skips, that some stray television signal from 2007 had gotten lost in space and was roaming around, trying to get home, when it happened to land on my radio dial. Imagine my shock, then, when I found this was not a lost moment from the past, but the real Sanjaya Malakar talking to the real Ed Lover in the real 2008 (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) Dave Graveline and his "Into Tomorrow" team bring you the latest in tech gadgetry and wizardry - including Dan Ragland, XE Platform Engineer - Intel Mobile Platform Group - this weekend on terrestrial and satellite radio and online at www.graveline.com CBS Radio News plans to simulcast the primetime three network special, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), along with the ABC, CBS and NBC television networks, on Friday, Sept. 5(
Thursday August 21, 2008 Edition In announcing the KIRO-AM/710 and the former KBSG-FM/97.3 (now renamed KIRO-FM) simulcast several weeks ago, was a bit coy as to the future of KIRO-AM, saying only that no decisions have been made. But given the predictions by competitors and reports that Bonneville has talked with national sports network ESPN about using its service, a switch to all sports seems at least a strong possibility (read more - Bill Virgin - Seattle PI) A 'World renowned' DJ has been convicted of hauling $3 million in cocaine - A jury deliberated less than two hours before convicting Kenneth Watkins. Watkins, who is also known as "DJ Blaze" and "DJ Hog Head Cheese," took the stand at his trial and stated that he is one of the hottest DJs in the U.S., claiming to be "world-renowned." He is affiliated with the Ideal Talent Agency in Atlanta, which, according to its web-site, features well-known Hip Hop artists such as 3-6 Mafia, 50 Cent, Jay-Z and Mike Jones. Kenneth Watkins has been featured on XM Radio (read more - Jason Trahan - Dallas News) This election year has been good to all-news and news/talk radio, which plan extensive coverage of both the Democratic National Convention in Denver next week and the Republicans in Minneapolis the week after (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) Pandora Radio is the canary in the coal mine. With about a million listeners every day, Pandora is one of the most successful Internet radio stations on the Web. I'm more of a Slacker fan personally, but Pandora's music-matching technology is among the best in the business. And it generates revenue, perhaps as much as $25 million this year alone. But that isn't enough to pay the royalty fees (read more - Dan Costa - PC Magazine) The key for Sirius XM is to keep attracting radio stars if the contracts make economical sense. Taking someone away from terrestrial radio -- like Chris "Mad Dog" Russo - is a win. The more content Sirius XM controls, the easier time it will have winning over new subs on the basis of exclusive programming. There's always room for a few more big dogs in the Sirius XM family (read more - Rick Aristotle Munarriz - Motley Fool) WEEI Sports Radio, owned by Entercom New England, is adding 93.5 FM in Keene to its list of new markets, starting Sept. 15. WEEI also will begin broadcasting Sept. 1 from 910 AM - 97.1 FM in Bangor, Maine, and 95.5 FM - 95.9 FM in Portland, Maine (read more - New Hampshire Business Review) Houston radio legend Paul Berlin, turns 78 on Friday. Which is only fair, since Berlin spun 78 rpm records when he debuted on Houston's airwaves in 1950. Former KILT newsman Dan Lovett has organized a bold-faced party for Berlin at the downtown Hyatt, with a who's who of Houston radio attending (read more - Ken Hoffman - Houston Chronicle) ARBitron numbers for St Louis, Washington DC, Monterey-Salinas, Cleveland and Baltimore (read the numbers)
All Comedy Radio "News
Burps" Tribune
Broadcasting’s WGN America
debuts
“The Bob & Tom Show,”
on WGN America Monday-Friday from Radio One Houston announced ACCOUNTABILITY ONE, a scheduling and ratings verification system. The Radio One ACCOUNTABILITY ONE software will merge the most recent weekly PPM data with advertising schedules and provide ratings delivery based on the purchased schedule Re: Accountability One: "Cost per thousand" is a number unconnected to the goals of the advertiser, unless that advertiser's goal is simply to send messages to thousands of people regardless of the outcome of that messaging. "Cost per click" or "cost per action" or "cost per conversion" are, on the other hand, measures of accountability that say actions are what we're paying for, not merely exposure (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Dan Potter
is taking over as News Director and Assistant
After nine years in Syracuse Kathy Denman says she has found her niche as Director of Operations for Clear Channel Traffic (read more - Amy Olson - CNY Link) Thirty years or so ago the term ‘clear channel’ had a somewhat different meaning than it has today. You were in special company as part of the ‘clear channel’ club. These were the ‘power house’ stations like WGN, WBZ, WLW, WABC, and KFI. All were 50KW non directional stations day AND night. They were virtually alone on their frequencies often covering up to thirty eight states with skywave. Sometime in the 80s a move was made to break down the clears. One by one stations were added to the clear channel frequencies cutting down on their skywave coverage. The thinking was these powerful metropolitan stations could not serve smaller towns as well as a local service on the same frequency. Many strange combinations of power and directional patterns were used to put new stations on the air. In the end the AM band became a jumbled mess (read more - Alan Furst) We recently wrapped up a project for iBiquity that provided us with the opportunity to visit several radio clusters all over the country. Over and above that project's objectives, we also learned something very important about radio's workforce. There are many engaged, passionate, and creative people at the station level who could be making bigger contributions to their companies, if there was an avenue provided for them (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) When Premiere Radio Networks, “a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications” sent out that August 13th press release launching “The iTunes Download”, I was curious but I didn’t listen to the demo until yesterday (read more - Mel Phillips) Steep auto discounts was one of four factors that I felt would boost auto sales. While other turn-around factors have still not been met, the Employee Discount Program offered by GM may be enough to stabilize sales for the auto maker, which in turn will help satellite radio subscription numbers. For consumers, there is also additional cash incentives on top of the already discounted price (read more - Tyler Savery - Seeking Alpha)
The greats and the greatest of
Texas radio will be at the world famous "Billy Bob's Texas" on
Sunday afternoon, October 26 at 2 pm for the Texas
Radio Hall of Fame Induction Celebration.
Where will you be?
Got your tickets?
Do it today while you're thinking about it!
50% of the available
discounted tickets
are already sold for the Sunday afternoon October 26
Radio After Denial: I was impressed to see C.L. King radio analyst Jim Boyle tell it like it is in his latest analysis of revenue projections. Boyle's remarks are right on because radio's monthly declines are not about to turn around any time soon and yet radio CEOs -- the ones I keep skewering right here -- are content to do the same nothing they've been doing (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh is viewed as a possible do-no-harm running mate for Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. But the corporate work that Bayh's wife has done could be cause for doubts in the running-mate vetting department. Susan Bayh, a lawyer, drew more than $837,0000 from her work on seven corporate boards last year, as Bloomberg News notes. She is lead director at Emmis Communications Corp., an Indianapolis radio-station operator that published Evan Bayh's 2003 memoir (read mroe - Mark Silva - The Swamp) Jacobs Media announced today that the next two “Presidents Of Radio” have been added to its breakthrough session at Summit 13, to be held in Austin, Texas on September 18th Spanish Broadcasting System will host the third annual “Viva La Raza” mega concert at the Pico Rivera Sport Arena in Whittier, CA on Sunday August 24 CelleCast has added five new programs in the past week to its network of on-demand talk radio programming for telephones. Joining the lineup are independently-owned programs The Todd Feinburg Show, Nick Federoff on Gardening, Things Green Garden Minute, and science programs Earth and Sky and Clear Voices for Science What could possibly be better? Satellite radio for variety with programmed channels, combined with the best portable digital music/media player available. So why has this not happened yet? (read more - Seaton Briggs - Seeking Alpha) Apple acknowledged that a software update for the iPhone partly fixes the connection snags that have caused a global firestorm for the new iPhone 3G (read more - Edward C. Baig - USA Today) Former CBS4 Denver anchor Bob Palmer has died (read more - KCNC 4 TV) From Rush Limbaugh: Ladies, the Drive-Bys went nuts yesterday when they got wind of my analysis of what would happen to the Republican Party and the conservative movement if McCain chose either Lieberman or Ridge. I mean, they went nuts out there. On all these cable shows, Good Morning America, they just went nuts, and they got funny. It's hilarious" (read more - RushLimbaugh.com) Conservative talk radio titan Rush Limbaugh relished the prospect of an Obama-Biden Democratic presidential ticket on his broadcast Wednesday. “I really hope it’s Biden,” Limbaugh told his listeners. “You don’t want to say that too loud, but I really do hope that it’s Joe Biden, because we’ve got mountains of archival audio on Joe Biden.” “Plus, the arrogance factor times two,” Rush added. “Biden and the Messiah would just be delicious” (read more - Amanda Carpenter - Town Hall) Rush Limbaugh stated that Sen. Barack Obama "believes it is proper to kill a baby that has survived an abortion" and Ann Coulter said that Obama "wants the doctors - chasing it through the delivery room to make sure it gets killed." They based their claims on Obama's opposition to an Illinois bill that he and other opponents said posed a threat to abortion rights and was unnecessary(read more - Media Matters) The Weather Channel Radio Network, launched in 1988 with three radio broadcast meteorologists and just two affiliates, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week. Today the network has more than 725 affiliated radio stations including three regional radio networks and, in the last five years, the Weather Channel Radio Network has doubled the number of radio stations with which it has affiliation agreements Chris "Mad Dog" Russo is believed to have signed a five-year contract worth about $3 million per year, and he not only was given an afternoon drive time show from 2 to 7 p.m., but an entire channel. "Mad Dog Radio" will appear on both Sirius and XM, with Russo as executive producer (read more - Neil Best - Newsday) Intel has made progress in a technology that could lead to the wireless recharging of gadgets and the end of the power-cord spaghetti behind electronic devices (read more - John Markoff - NY Times) Nokia's 5610 XpressMusic, which costs $99 with a two-year contract from T-Mobile, plays MP3s and has an FM radio tuner (no AM) along with dedicated music playback buttons (read more - John Biggs - NY Times) Following a BetaNews article indicating that Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin suggested the company's finances were in bad shape, the company shot back that it was not the case. A spokesperson for the satellite radio provider contacted BetaNews late Tuesday refuting the original article's premise that Karmazin had admitted that Sirius XM's finances were not healthy - There was certainly no place where Mel 'admits' to the company in bad financial shape. Simply not true nor said," Sirius SVP for Communications Patrick Reilly told BetaNews (read more - Ed Oswald - BetaNews) KCLU has acquired Santa Barbara's KIST-AM (read more - Karin Grennan - Noozhawk) Wednesday August 20, 2008 Edition Big Dheena, of Adlab’s radio station BIG 92.7 FM, a popular Tamil radio jockey is aiming to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by attempting to stay on the air non-stop for over 136 hours - The current Guinness record is held by Stefano Venneri (Italy) on the Radio BBSI station in Alessandria, Italy (read more - Thaindian News) Times are generally tough for media companies, as illustrated by the troubles at Tribune, taken private in a deal led by real-estate mogul Sam Zell. The publishing and broadcasting company is struggling under a mountain of debt, selling assets in an effort to raise cash - Univision is also facing challenges, though not as severe as Tribune’s - The main culprit is the sharp decrease in advertising revenue amid the slowing economy and a shift in advertising dollars to the Internet - (read more - Andrew Ross Sorkin - DealBook) High-speed Internet access is so important to the welfare of U.S. consumers that America can't afford not to offer it - free of charge - to anybody who wants it, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin says (read more - Leslie Cauley - USA Today) NBC has used the Olympics to roll out what might be the new way to measure its audience, something called the Total Audience Measurement Index. The network is issuing its daily “TAMi” numbers, showing just how important online viewing is becoming. Television provides the overwhelming bulk of the viewing, ranging from 91% to 95% of viewers, depending on the day. But 5% to 8% of viewers are watching online (read more - Tim Cuprisin - Milwaukee JS) ESPN President George Bodenheimer would like to remind advertisers his company was measuring cross-platform sports content for them for several years prior (read more - Andrew Hampp - Ad Age) The Parents Television Council's recent report warning that increased sex on TV is leading to increased sex among teenage viewers drew both positive and negative responses (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) Radio revenues probably dropped 7% in June compared to the same month last year, according to veteran radio analyst Jim Boyle of CL King and Associates - delivering a heavy blow to the industry in what is traditionally the second-biggest month of the year in terms of revenue (read more - Aware 11) MSNBC is shaking up its prime-time programming lineup, removing the long-time host Dan Abrams from his 9 p.m. program and replacing him with Rachel Maddow (read more - Bill Carter - NY Times) KTNV-TV, Channel 13, reporter, Jeff Gradney has been fired after he and his girlfriend were accused of soliciting male partners on the Internet (read more - Norm Clarke - Las Vegas Review-Journal) Dick and Dom are to leave BBC Radio 1 after less than a year, as the station revamps its weekend schedule (read more - BBC News U.K.) There is something seriously wrong when Pandora - arguably one of the most popular Internet streams out there - is close to pulling the plug and shutting down. A million daily listeners and record numbers of iPhone users (and me) are going to be very unhappy. The reason? (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) What were their latest results as to what makes a good radio commercial? To begin with, strong beginnings make a difference. “An involving point of entry distinguishes some of the most successful radio ads in our study”. Secondly, word selection matters. “Words that are sensory-laden, emotional or empowering have a demonstrable impact on the emotional reactions of consumers.” Thirdly, audio can be powerful (read more - Mel Phillips) The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) has introduced RAB2009 Early Adopter pricing, the largest ever discount on advance registration and a deep savings on rooms at the luxury, five-star Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando during the conference, March 16 to 18, 2009 (read more - RAB) The radio division of Astral Media, Montreal-based and Canada's largest radio broadcaster, is shutting down its online and television classified ad division, TATV (read more - Canada Business CA) Valuable piece from the influential blog Mashable about the decline of podcasting and the rise of videocasting - But it really makes the point that it's not really about things declining but rather about choice rising (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) AT&T and LG Electronics announced the availability of the LG Invision, a new multimedia device for video on mobile phones (read more - PR Newswire - Yahoo) We referred to local artists we played on WMMS as the “Pride of Cleveland” - P.O.C., for short. The name, suggested by Kid Leo in the mid ‘70s, came from the locally-brewed P.O.C. beer, which was headquartered in Cleveland from 1892 to 1962 (read more - John Gorman) Clear Channel
Radio and the Washington, DC
Martin Luther King, Jr.
National Memorial Project Foundation
announced the additions of renowned radio personalities including
Steve Harvey, Doug Banks, Tom
Joyner and
Michael Baisden
to an all-star ensemble of
celebrities for the Clear ARBitron numbers for Boston, Detroit, San Diego, Hartford and Akron (read the numbers)
All Comedy Radio "News
Burps" Has Jon Stewart eclipsed Howard Stern as the King of All Media? Stewart isn't saying but I'm beginning to think that's the case. A new survey from the Pew Research Center says that television is still the primary news source for most U.S. citizens. At the same time, Pew says that younger Americans tend to rely on Internet news sites like the one you're reading now. It's a confluence that favors Stewart like no other (read more - Tim Beyers - Motley Fool) The disappearance of Bob Strong, a popular DJ on Ipswich station Town 102 FM, a prominent local radio presenter, continues to remain a mystery today. He has been absent from his mid-morning slot for two weeks now, but programme bosses last night refused to offer listeners an explanation (read more - Russel Claydon - EADT 24 U.K.) From Jimmy Rabbitt
-- "Love Me Tender" succeeded another
Elvis Presley
single, "Hound Dog" b/w "Don't Be
Sara Cox and Edith Bowman both return to Radio One in September, following maternity leave. Cox will cover Jo Whiley’s show (Monday-Friday 10am-1pm) during Whiley’s maternity leave and from the new year host Sunday mornings (10am-1pm) (read more - Music Week U.K.) News Corp's Rupert Murdoch earned $27.1 million last year (read more - Wall Street Journal) This summer, Philebrity intern Dan Pierson will be listening to a different Philly-area station for a full hour once a week, blogging what he finds, and then publishing those findings. After the jump, Dan reflects on Philly’s Interactive Hip-Hop and R&B, WPHI 100.3FM The Beat (read more - Philebrity) John A. Riggle is retiring as vice president and general manager of Tribune Co.'s WPMT-TV in Harrisburg, Pa., effective Sept. 1, and will be replaced atop the Fox affiliate by Larry Delia, vice president and general manager of the company's two stations in New Orleans (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) WJEP AM 1020 Ochlocknee/Thomasville/Tallahassee adds Radio Cabo to its lineup beginning September 5, from 10 PM to 1 AM Eastern Time on Friday Nights The NFL has expanded another revenue stream, but could also indirectly benefit from informal research. Sprint's "NFL Mobile Live" is being expanded for the upcoming season, with Sprint users having access to live NFL games via some of the paid plans it offers. The NFL will likely be supplied with reports as to what teams, games, and players are being selected by paying customers (read more - Dave Kohl) Tuesday August 19, 2008 Edition Sirius - XM radio put an end to the speculation and officially announced that Chris “Mad Dog” Russo will be their newest sports host. SIRIUS channel 123 and XM channel 144 will relaunch as Mad Dog Radio (read more - Sirius XM Radio) (read more - Crain's NY Biz) (read more - Bob Raissman - NY Daily News) (read more - Corey Deitz - About) As founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” franchise, Joe Francis has often been accused of duping women into doing things they wish they had not, especially baring their breasts in front of a video camera. This time, it is Mr. Francis who says he was fooled - not by a cameraman, but by his accountant (read more - Michael Parrish - NY Times FCC Commissioners and other staff plan to travel to the 82 priority markets to host public events and to work with local broadcasters to expand their number of public service announcements about the switch to digital television (read more - WTOP) As the former broadcaster of the Chiefs, Jayhawks, Kansas City A’s and many others, Merle Harmon has seen it all, and has met and worked with many of the most famous people ever to grace a playing field, a sideline, a typewriter, or a microphone. Now retired and living in Texas, Harmon was back in Kansas City this weekend for a reunion of the old Kansas City A’s, which was held by the T-Bones at Community America Ballpark (read more -Scott Lavelock - Leavenworth Times) Too often it's easy for music-oriented radio stations to forget this twist on the old marketing maxim: "You are not what you play, you're the benefit of what you play." Even if the benefit is getting airline travelers into their seats faster, as it is for Delta (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Jacobs Media's Keith Cunningham weighs in on what you can expect from Nikki Sixx at this year's Jacobs Media Summit 13 in Austin, Texas: What Nikki Sixx knows about branding and the rock audience that you might not, is what we aim to find out when he joins us at Summit 13, on September 18th, in Austin. Why should you make the trek to Austin to see this session? (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) The CBC will announce a radical revamp of its Radio Two network today with the introduction of more popular and cross cultural music and a de-emphasizing of classical content (read more - Chris Cobb - Ottawa Citizen CA) A defiant Tony Veitch will strenuously deny the charges of assaulting his former girlfriend - and both he and the family of his alleged victim have expressed relief that he has at last been charged. "I am more determined than ever to fight to clear my name," the former TVNZ and Radio Sport broadcaster said outside Auckland District Court (read more - Emily Watt and Michael Field - Dominion Post NZ) As of August 30, longtime radio talk show host Lynn Cullen will no longer be on WPTT-AM (1360) where switching to a new format and will eliminate her show, which airs from 9 a.m. to noon (read more - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Kenn McCloud, 48, formerly with station KBKO in Bakersfield, is scheduled to undergo triple-bypass surgery Tuesday (read more - KGET TV 17) From boy-wonder state senator to conservative talk-show host, Tom Scott is back on 960 WELI with afternoon drive talk show partner Ryan Gorman on the infelicitously named Tom Scott & Ryan Show (read more - Business New Haven) The judge who ruled that Jammie Thomas owed $222,222 for her downloaded and shared music files has had a change of heart - The judge has learned since that making songs available is not a copyright violation and is now weighing granting Jammie a new trial (read more - Mel Phillips) On the heels of the company signing president and CEO John Hogan to a five-year deal, Clear Channel Radio has signed several senior executives in its management team to long-term contracts, including Evan Harrison (President of Clear Channel’s Online Music & Radio unit), Susan Karis (EVPO), Mark Kopelman (EVPO), Gene Romano (Executive VP of Programming ), Tom Schurr (EVPO), and George Toulas (EVPO). Separately, the company promoted Harrison, Kopelman, Romano, and Toulas to newly created positions that will give each of these executives expanded roles with the company (read more - MarketWatch)
All Comedy Radio "News
Burps" 101.9 RXP The New York Rock Experience revealed that on September 9th they will be giving listeners a chance to be apart of the ultimate New York Rock Experience - a guided tour of the city’s most famous (or infamous) Rock & Roll sights aboard a double-decker bus, with RXP morning show host Matt Pinfield as the tour guide and The Kooks performing live From Happy Hare
-- I am encouraged about some
of the up and coming young radio talents but, this is a salute to
the
GM has dropped out as a sponsor of the Oscar and Emmy telecasts saying that the expense is difficult to justify (read more - Jean Halliday - Ad Age) Beginning Monday, Aug. 25, ESPNU, the 24-hour college sports network, will present live simulcasts of ESPN Radio’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd SiPort, a leading developer of digital terrestrial broadcast receiver ICs for use in consumer electronic devices announced today that its SP1010 single-chip HD Radio Receiver has received HD Radio Ready certification from iBiquity Digital Corporation., the developer and licensor of HD Radio technology What will happen if a serious storm or disaster takes out the cable and leaves a city with a couple of radio stations that have no news room? This scenario isn’t limited to smaller towns. Big cities are extremely vulnerable. Take Houston, less than sixty miles from the Gulf Of Mexico. Houston is sitting duck for a major Hurricane. If the TV stations are off, there is only one radio station in the entire city with a decent sized news room. Just ONE. And that is an AM station that carries mostly syndicated programming (read more - Alan Furst) Envision Radio Networks’ Country Live USA adds KBKB-FM Burlington IA as its newest affiliate Monday August 18, 2008 Edition New York radio is just two months away from officially switching entirely to a new system of audience measurement, the Portable People Meter (PPM), and the countdown continues with the unofficial numbers for July. Under PPM, it turns out, longtime leader WLTW (106.7 FM) is still ahead (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) Fired
KTSA
talk host
Jeff Koch
will continue manning his afternoon show while the station actively
seeks a replacement. "We will be auditioning people for the
position along the way, while Jeff is exploring other options both
inside and outside of the company,"
Mark Landis,
vice Pandora can't make money, may pull the plug - Pandora is one of the nation's most popular Web radio services, with about 1 million listeners daily. Its Music Genome Project allows customers to create stations tailored to their own tastes. It is one of the 10 most popular applications for Apple's iPhone and attracts 40,000 new customers a day. Yet the burgeoning company may be on the verge of collapse, according to its founder, and so may be others like it (read more - Peter Whoriskey - Washington Post) (read more - Tech Radar U.K.) (read more - Ars Technica) The RIAA claims the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) gives them the right to go after streaming audio for royalty payments. It’s based on the false assumption that all digital recordings are a perfect duplication of the master copy. Since streaming audio is digitally delivered - the RIAA wants streaming audio broadcasters to pay its collection agency, SoundExchange, for airplay. The reality is that most digitally delivered music and spoken word on the Internet is highly compressed audio. A perfect duplication it is not (read more - John Gorman) Leroy Sievers, a veteran broadcast journalist, former executive producer of ABC News' "Nightline" and the author of a popular and candid daily blog about his battle with cancer, "My Cancer," has died at age 53 (read more - ABC News) (read his daily blog - NPR) Washington, which likes to think of itself as the indispensable city for high-stakes journalism, is losing its luster. A full-blown withdrawal is underway, with newspaper companies reducing their troops here or pulling them out altogether. "The folks back home see a Washington bureau as a luxury," says Bill Walsh, a former correspondent for the New Orleans Times-Picayune who recently left journalism (read more - Howard Kurtz - Washington Post) Satellite subscribers say they write those monthly checks for any number of reasons - to listen to favorite celebrities like Howard Stern, Oprah Winfrey or NASCAR driver Tony Stewart; to get away from commercials that often cram “terrestrial radio” channels; to have the music they want, when they want it. On the eve of its seventh birthday, satellite radio is about to undergo a massive face-lift - By November, Sirius XM Radio will roll out new pricing plans and technology (read more - David Hayes - KC Star) (read more - UPI)) WOKY-AM (920) morning hosts Gregory Jon and Meg McKenzie broadcast live from faux 1950s Miss Katie’s Diner from 6 to 10 a.m. Tuesday to mark the day’s dedication of the bronze statue of TV’s Fonzie (read more - Tim Cuprisin - Milwaukee JS) It seems that radio has cycled back to the 50's. It's been so long since we had a quarterly report come in from radio that was in the plus category as far as big profits were concerned you have to go back in the archives to find it. "Down 2%..down 3%..." And, like in the late 50's most of the people I talk to who work in radio on a day to day basis are not happy, but spend more time talking about the old days or what they might do in the future other than radio. This is not to paint the future of radio as bleak. Still, over 90% of the people in North America listen to radio once a week or more. But, stats are that the listening time and advertising dollars are in a plunge, and radio must do something about it..even re-invent itself (read more - Bob Hamilton) Palestra.net. It's the latest - and boldest - move by a major media company - News Corp. - to capitalize on America's some 6.1 million undergrads. While outlets such as Viacom's MTVU network and privately owned Zilo Networks have gone after university students for years, Palestra's at the front of a new wave led by news outlets desperate to connect with young viewers (read more - James Erik Abels - Forbes) When you spend more of your life on air than off, such almost-famous moments tend to add up. "I must have interviewed hundreds of musicians," said long-time DJ Curtis Kay of WDHA-FM, a.k.a. "The Rock of New Jersey," based in Cedar Knolls - In an industry where market-hopping is the norm, Kay has managed not only to stay put, but also to maintain his enthusiasm - Curtis Kay is indeed his real name. His hair length is another story. (read more - Ellen S. Wilkowe - Daily Record)
All Comedy Radio "News
Burps" I find it's easier to get local news on a local website than from local TV where viewers have to put up with superficial reporting and news consultants who advise anchors to say “here’s a story you won’t believe” - they’re right, I won't. Oh, I used to be a TV and radio newsman among other media careers in my past, but radio and TV are the last places I would turn to now. For all practical purposes, radio got out of the new business long before it got out of the local radio business. It's doing that now. I mention all of this because as radio (and television) leave their audiences behind in news coverage, the next generation has turned to other sources. You asked for it - you got it (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Rhys Ifans is to team up again with the man who made him a household name in a new film about an infamous ’60s pirate radio station off the coast of Great Britain. The Ruthin-born actor is to star in director Richard Curtis’ "The Boat That Rocked", a comedy based on the real-life exploits of Radio Caroline (read more - Nathan Bevan - Western Mail U.K.) I was not surprised by New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s charges of a “potential bias in the (Arbitron PPM) methodology.” What did surprise me is Quinn’s lack of knowledge regarding the FCC’s possible role in an investigation of Arbitron’s methodology. That is something that the FCC does not and will not do. They are a regulatory commission not an investigative agency that determines audience measurement methodology (read more - Mel Phillips) HipCricket is working with Univision Communications and Univision Radio to deliver mobile marketing solutions (read more - Wireless Week) To no one's surprise, KROQ has been nominated as Station of the Year, and Kevin Weatherly is once again on the ballot for Program Director of the Year. I don't keep track of such things, but has Kevin or KROQ actually lost either of these awards in the past 15 years? In fact, KROQ should be the Alternative Station of the Century, and Weatherly should be honored similarly. But the net effect of KROQ and Kevin winning year after year is that it denies awards to some of the stations and programmers in the trenches. These stations aren't as "world famous" as KROQ, nor perhaps are their PDs as savvy as Weatherly. But somehow in some way, they should be recognized above and beyond just being nominated (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Eddy Hartenstein, the former head of satellite television provider DirecTV, will become the new publisher of the Los Angeles Times on Monday (read more - Martin Zimmerman - Chicago Tribune) Dan Patrick, who may fancy himself a king in the world of conservative talk radio, is still being reminded that he is a rookie in the clubby world of the state Senate. A rookie with an attitude, but a rookie, nevertheless (read more - Clay Robison - Houston Chronicle) Tyra Banks, the model/talk-show hostess kept her "Tyra Banks Show" audience waiting for nearly two hours at her West 26th Street studio Tuesday during a taping of "Celebrating Black Models, Past, Present and Future," while she stood backstage giggling, snacking and chatting with the crew (read more - Page Six - NY Post) Some KWMU donors are reconsidering their pledges following the University of Missouri's firing of longtime station manager Patty Wente (read more - St Louis Biz Journal) Premiere Radio Networks and City of Hope, one of the nation’s leading cancer research, treatment and education centers, has launched "The Pink Channel", the first radio channel supporting the fight against cancers, particularly those that affect women. The Pink Channel airs on XM Satellite Radio Channel 24 and will feature pop hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s as well as segments on health and wellness, personal development, trend reports and more Neil Abercrombie
is proof that all politicians
aren't scum, scammers or scandalous sociopaths. He's one of those
Today's Internet is not going to look like tomorrows internet. So we still have time to develop a vision for radio for tomorrow. A radio industry that is a two-way street of entertainment and information. This version of radio will be new and will know no generational boundaries. How's that for a Utopian dream? (read more - Harve Alan) For more than 30 years, Garrison Keillor has broadcast "A Prairie Home Companion." For the Salt Lake City tour stop of "The Rhubarb Tour", a night of music and stories, he'll be joined by singer Suzy Bogguss, sound-effects genius Fred Newman and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band (read more - - Salt Lake Tribune) A lot has been discussed about the new iPhone application that allows subscribers to access their accounts and listen to Sirius XM Radio right over their iPhone. It is a great concept, but without a push from either Apple or Sirius XM, it will have to grow organically - which may be slower than many people hoped for. The other hot new phone on the market is the Samsung Instinct being offered by Sprint (read more - Tyler Savery - Seeking Alpha) Radiopaq is the internet radio search engine where you can find thousands of stations and podcasts from across the globe (read more - RadioPaq.com) The word in the media right now is that Google is preparing to join forces with T-Mobile and HTC in a project that will eventually bring customers a new type of interactive smartphone (read more - Alex Garrel - eFlux Media) From Claude Hall
-- Jerry Wexler is dead. Heart. Florida. He was 91. I had emails
Friday from both Hal Smith and Rob Moorhead. My thanks. I’m sitting
here now trying to figure
Bob Keene produced
Twist records for KRLA,
Los Angeles; KYA,
San Francisco; WQAM,
Miami; KPOI,
Honolulu; WTIX,
It is amazing how a great tool like the car stereo system can actually be a serious distraction from the most important things in your life: your wife, your kids, your family. It is amazing how you can be "with" people but not "be" with them. Sadly I was made aware of how much time I spent with my kids but how little of that time actually counted. Talking, conversing, communicating, are all things that require effort and intention and won't happen on their own (read more - Nechemia Schusterman - Chabad) WGCU’s long hair is getting clipped, and its classical-music audience will be asked for a down payment on the new look (read more - Harriet Howard Heithaus - Naples Daily News) From Tommy Kramer
-- As a Listener, I want a TRAFFIC report, not an ACCIDENT report.
Telling me that “there’s
an
Salem Communications announced that it has entered into an agreement to stream its music and talk radio stations on the Internet with StreamAudio (read more - CNN Money) Longtime sports/talk station WNDE-AM 1260 has beaten back newcomer WFNI-AM 1070 in a critical listener demographic despite WFNI’s extensive promotion of hosts Eddie White and Indianapolis Star sports columnist Bob Kravitz (read more - Anthony Schoettle - Indy Biz Journal) Clear Channel Radio’s Total Traffic Network has expanded its delivery of real-time traffic data over RDS-TMC (Radio Data System Traffic Message Channel) for navigation-equipped vehicles and devices that bring the total number of North American markets served to 95, with the 15 additional markets increasing the total population coverage of CCTTN to over 200 million people in the country (read more - Business Wire) Baseball is the one sport that is still better on radio. A great broadcast team can bring a game to life in ways television can’t. The best radio baseball broadcast team of all time? Bob Murphy, Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner, the original Mets crew. Oh, no I’m not a homer. Not me. Actually there have been many good teams. Milo Hamilton and Larry Dierker were excellent on the Astros games in the 80s (read more - Alan Furst) After years of regarding pirated video on YouTube as a threat, some major media companies are having a change of heart, treating it instead as an advertising opportunity (read more - Brian Stelter - NY Times) On Thursday, WFAN’s “Mike and the Mad Dog” became just Mike, when Chris Russo left the station abruptly, ending a nearly 19-year partnership with Mike Francesa that had made them perhaps the most formidable duo in sports-talk radio (read more - Richard Sandomir - NY Times) (read more - Ken Schott - Schnectady Daily Gazette) (read more - Neil Best - Newsday) (read more - Roger Catlin - Hartford Courant) Don Helms, 81, the steel guitarist who became one of country music's most influential musicians through his association with singer-composer Hank Williams in the 1940s and early 1950s, died Aug. 11 at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville after a heart attack (read more - Terence McArdle - Washington Post) I usually listen to satellite radio when I'm working. But Pandora's world has just changed all because of the Apple iPhone 3G. iPhone and iPod Touch owners can now download a free Pandora application that gives them access to their Pandora stations. Overnight, Pandora has many thousands of new fans (read more - Troy Dreier - Jersey Journal) Philly NBC10 news anchor Vince DeMentri’s bio and picture have been removed from nbc10.com. DeMentri has been off the air for over a month since allegations arose that he took items from NBC10 news anchor Lori Delgado (read more - LauraNachman.net) Friday August 15, 2008 Edition More than a dozen jobs are being eliminated at Texas Monthly magazine, including that of former publisher Michael Levy, as part of a Emmis Communications' work force reductions (read more - CNN Money) Claudia Giovannoni, marketing director at internet advertiser Coull, said broadcasting is still in its inception and is growing as an additional medium to reach audiences on a global scale. The Olympics online coverage is a good test bed for worldwide online broadcasting, she added (read more - iHotDesk) On Monday, The Keith Sweat Hotel joins the lineup at 93.5 The Beat FM in Los Angeles Dropped calls are a problem with the iPhone 3G (read more - Leslie Cauley and Michelle Kessler - USA Today) Music producer Jerry Wexler is dead at 91 (read more - Google AP) (read more - John Rook) Sirius XM
will cut executive jobs, Karmazin
says, and he'll Mel Karmazin says he made an "ugly" debt deal in the Sirius - XM Merger (read more - Todd Shields - Bloomberg) Is the 'Mad Dog' Headed to Sirius XM's Sports Channel? -- WFAN's loss could be rival WEPN's gain - Mike without the Mad Dog. You better get used to it. New York sports talk radio station WFAN 660-AM announced Thursday night that hosts Mike Francesa and Christopher Russo have broken up their pairing after almost 19 years together (read more - Ken Mcmillan - Times Herald Record) (read more - Bob Raissman - NY Daily News) (read more - Neil Best - Newsday) (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) (read more - Tyler Savery - Seeking Alpha) (read more - Richard Sandomir - NY Times) KDAY/93.5 FM goes with "The Beat of L.A." starting Monday, when it targets age 18-49 black adults with a new format name and increased signal strength + "L.A. radio is literally the pinnacle of the radio business with some 'gold medal people and properties' that have achieved legendary status such as KROQ, KRTH, KNX and KFWB," Roy Laughlin new LA boss at CBS Radio e-mailed. (read more - Gary Lycan - OC Register) Rush slammed after blaming Elizabeth Edwards for affair -- Add this to the litany of shocking and offensive things to have emerged from right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh's mouth: "It just seems to me that [John] Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk." The popular conservative seemed quite clearly to be blaming Edwards's wife, Elizabeth, who is battling breast cancer, with driving her husband to another woman (read more - David Edwards and Nick Juliano - Raw Story) Next year BMW will introduce the Internet to its upscale car buyers. That’s only the start. Other auto manufacturers are already in or planning to offer WiFi on wheels. It’s coming - as promised - and the youth generation has been waiting for a way to access the entire Internet on the go. This is like what FM was to us - and more. What about terrestrial radio? (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) ARBitron numbers for Albany GA, Anchorage, Tri-Cities and Yakima (read the numbers) KYYS’ 20-year tradition of Elvis Parades downtown commemorating the King’s 1977 death has died itself (read more - Hearne Christopher Jr - KC Star) Kevin Slaten plans to continue with his wrongful termination lawsuit against KFNS radio despite a judge ruling against him this week in a related case. And he lashed out at the judge who ruled Slaten has to stay off KFNS' competitors airwaves until October, saying his decision smacks of communism (read more - Dan Caesar - St Louis Post-Dispatch) Dave Graveline and his "Into Tomorrow" team bring you the latest in tech gadgetry and wizardry - including interviews with Sally Smith Clemens, Product Manager - Olympus Ximena Cuevas, Senior Marketing Manager - T-Mobile Jay Adrick, VP, Broadcast Technology - Harris Corporation Frank Hannigan, CEO & Co-founder - YouGetItBack Bob Gulino, Senior Mktg. Communications Manager - Logitech - this weekend on terrestrial and satellite radio and online at www.graveline.com Regardless of Mel's recent appearance on Mad Money to calm stock holders, there is still the underlying question of what the future holds for satellite radio. It is no secret that I think the Internet is going to be a large competitive factor; especially when I read that Chrysler is fitting vehicles with wireless routers with a $29.00 per month subscription rate (read more - Gino Lattarulo - Seeking Alpha) With the Woodward Dream Cruise looming and all that surrounds it, we felt it would be better to "jump the gun" than to speak about everything in past tense. In recent years, this event has become a media extravaganza with just about every station in town taking part in some form or another. Even public radio WDET-FM (101.9) is scheduled to there (read more - Art Vuolo - MichiGuide) T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google’s Android software, perhaps as early as October (read more - Laura M. Holson and Miguel Helft - NY Times) As more PPM markets come online, we are all going to learn more about how our stations actually perform. The July PPM data that was just released contains some interesting nuggets. One is that 7% of Arbitron’s PPM panelists do at least some streaming (the lowest that number will ever be), but only a handful of streams made the minimum reporting standards (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Classic hits station KOMA-FM 92.5 retained its spot as Oklahoma City's most popular radio station for listeners 12 and older in the spring Arbitron ratings (read more - Mel Bracht - The Oklahoman) KFGO 790 AM dominated in the overall Arbitron ratings released Wednesday, taking a 16.6 share to swap spots with KVOX 99.9 FM, the longtime country-music station that topped the fall 2007 ratings. Froggy 99.9 came in second (read more - Dave Roepke - Fargo Forum) Regent
Communications on August 11
received a Citi analyst Tony Wible issued a report on SIRIUS XM Radio yesterday citing that availability of iPhone users to receive SIRIUS XM Radio is a positive for the equity. While I can see why the street would be enthusiastic about the development, I also see a need to maintain a level of caution (read more - Tyler Savery - Seeking Alpha) Local TV news has a problem. News directors are making it easier to not watch at all, and at times give viewers too many reasons to flip away. Commercials built into newscasts, delayed weather news, overhyped "you won't believe this" news segments that don't deliver, and phony breaking news or exclusive tags on stories - all of these are tactics that erode quality and drive viewers away. The examples are numerous and are all around the dial (read more - Richard Huff - NY Daily News) The fellow on a motorcycle who chased State Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe from the Alabama-Florida line, up Highway 137 through the Conecuh National Forest, then up U. S. 29 to Andalusia, was a radio disc jockey, not a police officer as the media has reported (read more - Bob Martin - Hartselle Enquirer) Jacquie Hammond, 39, owner of the Canadian School of Modern Broadcasting in Edmonton was arrested in Savannah, Ga. and faces 16 fraud-related charges (read more - Clara Ho - Edmonton Sun CA) Michael Savage has changed his mind and is reluctantly dropping his lawsuit against an Islamic rights group that launched an advertisers' boycott after he attacked Islam and the Quran on the air (read more - Bob Egelko - San Francisco Chronicle) From Kent Burkhart
-- Lots of radio meetings
scheduled for the fall. Three of them are in Texas, and one in
Georgia. So
A flash from the
area's past is bringing a new radio presence to the Inland region at
10:01 a.m. today when station
KWIE in Ontario begins
broadcasting as FLO 93.5 FM.
It's all in jest, but ABC is using high gas prices to boost TV viewing in its marketing campaign for the fall season by dubbing its premiere week "National Stay at Home Week." The stunt kicks off Sept. 21 - the night the Emmys will air on ABC (read more - Tim Cuprisin - Milwaukee JS) There were three summertime sweepers we’d occasionally run in-between two songs to ID WMMS - The Buzzard - with. We had competition - good competition - and we never went more than a couple of songs without identifying the station. We wanted to make sure our listeners knew what station they were listening to (read more - John Gorman) There will be no political windfall for radio this year but the hope is that when such “distractions” as the Olympics, the Russian invasion of Georgia and the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter soap opera fade along with the leaves, that more attention will be paid to the election and more money will be rolling in. You can only hope (read more - Mel Phillips) Rick Vaughn, program director of Clear Channel Radio's WIOQ-FM in Philadelphia, Thursday was named to the same post at the company's WKSC-FM 103.5 in Chicago, effective Sept. 2, replacing Rick Gillette (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune)
All Comedy Radio "News
Burps" Donald Trump will buy Ed McMahon's Beverly Hills home and allow him to continue to live in it (read more - Ann Brenoff - LA Times) Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell today sent a letter to Newsday Publisher Tim Knight demanding an apology for the August 13 column by Jenna Kern-Rugile entitled "Does shock jock hate speech lead to violence?" in which she inexplicably and noxiously links the contemptible July 27 murders committed in the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. Bozell also insisted that Ms. Rugile never again appear on the pages of Newsday (read more - NewsBusters) London's Capital 95.8 is suffering an embarrassing isolation, seemingly trapped in the hell of eternal puberty, struggling to find its own identity and acceptance among its peers (read more - Paul Smith - Media Guardian U.K.) Regis Philbin's daughter Joanna, 34, is about to be a published author. Agent Rebecca Oliver at Endeavor has sold a three-book deal to Cynthia Eagan at Little, Brown imprint Poppy (read more - NY Post - Page Six) As radio jobs become tougher to find in the US, I’m often asked about opportunities overseas. They can be very exciting, but hard to find. I spent time as Group PD in Australia. It was terrific, though at times it was a frustrating experience. And I wouldn’t change one minute of it. My first piece of advice is make sure you have a way home. In other words, be sure your overseas job pays for you to move there and back. The cost of an overseas move can be prohibitive (read more - Alan Furst) From Ron Jacobs --- Shooting blank blogs is unfair to anyone who bothers to check out this spot. There's no way to really know who or how many of you there are. Posted comments have been scant. Email sent to me directly at rj@hawaii.rr.com has been interesting. Most are sublimely rewarding. Fellow trivialists continually amplify my factoid file. I try to answer, time permitng, those that push hot buttons or ask interesting questions. So I apologize for this Blogospheric Dead Air. The ono audio continues to run non-stop at the home page. Positive response by users, participants and "media" continues to grow. For that, I am most grateful (read more - Ron Jacobs) Premiere Radio Networks has appointed Brian Lakamp, formerly the CEO of Fluxe, a digital media startup, as EVP of Digital Media Univision Radio says that beauty and fashion expert Martin Llorens has joined RadioCadena, Univision's national AM radio network, to host "Hola Martin" (read more - MarketWatch) Ousted Philly CBS3 anchor Larry Mendte is up for 19 local Emmys, as we all learned last week. He could have had even more, but his former station last month pulled his name off the three entries it had made on his behalf (read more - Michael Klein - Philly Inquirer) Envision Radio Networks Looking Up to Number One has a two-hour Labor Day special, hosted by Star 99.1 New York’s Johnny Stone that will recap this summer’s hottest music from Christian artists John H. Davison, President and General Manager for the Los Angeles stations says Craig Rossi has been named Director of Sales for Citadel Broadcasting stations 790 KABC and 95.5 KLOS The key elements essential for delivering engaging Radio advertisements have been confirmed in the results from Engaging Emotions Through Effective Radio Ads, the second part of a study from the Radio Ad Lab conducted by Gallup & Robinson (read more - Radio Ad Lab) Emmis Communications Corp. has cut an undisclosed number of positions from its magazine-publishing arm and reduced salaries by 2% (read more - Norm Heikens - Indy Biz Journal) Thursday August 14, 2008 Edition Arbitron, the rating service, released the first figures for the local area using its new electronic method of measuring listeners, while phasing out its decades-old diary system. The new method surveyed listeners in July, compared with the spring diary, which measured audience habits from April to June. In July, Top 40 station KIIS-FM (102.7) ran far ahead of the field, snagging an average of 5.8% (read more - Steve Carney - LA Times) Later this month,
Sirius-installing
partner Chrysler
will begin selling a $499 car-mounted router that will provide
secure online connectivity for
everyone in the car.
Like most EV-DO subscriptions,
access won't be cheap. However, at $29 a month, it's a relative
bargain compared to the EV-DO wireless card plans Jiles Perry
Richardson - "The Big Bopper"
went to work right after school as a late-night disc jockey on
Beaumont radio station KTRM.
On October 26 in Fort Worth,
Dan Mason, President and CEO of CBS RADIO has named Roy Laughlin as the Senior Vice President, Market Manager for CBS RADIO’s seven Los Angeles stations, effective Tuesday, September 2, replacing Jeff Federman ARBitron PPM numbers for Philadelphis and Houston + Abilene TX, Amarillo, Appleton-Oshkosh, Augusta GA, Billings MT, Bismarck, Boise, Fargo-Moorhead, Fayetteville AR, Grand Forks, Green Bay, Joplin, Lebanon-Rutland, Monroe LA, Panama City, Parkersburg-Marietta, Reno, Savannah, Tallahassee, Traverse City, Twin Falls and Valdosta (read the numbers) Groups opposed to what they call “amnesty” for undocumented immigrants announced plans to bring some 50 talk radio hosts from around the country to broadcast from Capitol Hill on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” event is a reprise of a similar event last year when the populist broadcasters rallied opposition to the immigration reform legislation that ultimately collapsed in the Senate (read more - Samuel Loewenberg - The Politico) His radio career
began in Waukesha, before he broke into the big time at Milwaukee’s
old WRIT-AM.
But it was on Chicago’s WLS-AM
(890) that
Clark Weber
made his biggest
Until his retirement 10 years ago, Danny Holiday ran what might be termed an on-air symposium on early rock 'n' roll, tracing its development, playing the familiar, the obscure and the forgotten, mixing in history, details and trivia of the music's first decade. As of Sept. 7 on Everett-based KSER- FM/90.7, Professor Holiday's class is back in session (read more - Bill Virgin - Seattle PI) The folks at SIRIUS XM Radio may not have wanted this released, but I was able to dig up a video of SIRIUS XM Radio CEO Mel Karmazin speaking about the merger just after it was announced, and what will be happening with the company going forward (read more - Tyler Savery - Seeking Alpha) For DJ's Frito and Alli at Candy 95, going to bed early and waking up early is the hardest part of their job. For me however, 4 a.m. came a little too soon (read more - Chelsea Lankes - The Aggie Batt) As a listener to
talk radio,
I often find myself imagining what other listeners are feeling
viscerally about what's coming
"Fun-lovin' KCBQ" ---- the legendary '60s AM radio station ---- is back. The XM satellite radio company will air a tribute to KCBQ from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday, complete with four-decade-old commercials and disc-jockey chit-chat. "We are going to recreate it so it sounds almost to make almost exactly like it did in the 1960s with the music and all of the DJ patter," said XM radio personality Terry "Motormouth" Young, host of "Sonic Sounds Salutes" (read more - Randy Dotinga - North County Times) Rich Michaels has begun a five-day suspension from WMMQ (94.1-FM). Brent Alberts, the operations manager for Citadel, said only that the suspension was for "personal comments" Michaels made on the air Monday (read more - Lansing State Journal) Radio operators
led by frantic consolidators looking to
slash expenses have entered
into a risky game of
duplication. From John Rook
-- Now with celebrated industry notable Clive Davis at his side, New
York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, taking the first steps that could move
the Rock
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Burps" What kind of radio are listeners searching for? (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Ottawa County's newest information and entertainment outlet, WPCR, www.PortClintonRadio.com is now on the air (read more - Ottawa Beacon) Young Broadcasting has reported its results for the second quarter ended June 30 (read more - Business Wire) As more broadcasters struggle with "the digital thing," it becomes critical that there's strategic vision in the boardroom. There's too much at stake, and too many silos demanding funding. From where should radio's investment in digital technology be siphoned? (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) With new technologies like iPods, satellite radio and online streaming music becoming more common, talk of traditional terrestrial radio biting the dust has been running rampant in recent years. Questions of whether the industry can survive the storm of new audio gadgets have some saying the death of radio is imminent (read more - Aprill Brandon - Victoria Advocate) As I've said thousands of times, if FM-AM radio had varied playlists with thousands of songs and wider format variety, unlimited local and national sports events, entertainers hosting their own programs, and stopped the five minute plus commercial clusters, millions of people wouldn't feel compelled to spend a monthly fee to listen to satellite radio in the first place. Instead, they would have bought HD radios to enjoy these niche channels along with the local stations they used to enjoy. Another advantage radio has is specific to the sports fan. No blackouts of local teams and games (read more - Dave Kohl) 95.1 The Fox says that Brother Wease would return to the air with a new show on Monday, November 17 (read more - view the video - 13 WHAM) The 2000 Summer Games have been the poster child for cross-platform distribution. These summer Olympics have combined traditional TV coverage, multiple cable channels, web, video downloads, VOD, and mobile. As you have read, watched or heard these games are a big winner in terms of delivery of audience. Even Olympic content requested on peoples cell phones is coming close to breaking through half million mark daily (read more - Harve Alan) According to Philly's CBS3, the reports on television industry message boards that the station’s ratings have dramatically declined with the departure of Larry Mendte and Alycia Lane are actually the result of a mistake from Nielsen ratings service (read more - LaraNachman.net) More Latinos turn to television and radio for health information rather than consult a doctor, raising concerns for a population expected to double by 2050 (read more - Fox LA TV) Is Internet radio the best thing for classical music? (read more - John Stoehr - Charleston City Paper) The "Power 96," 36-hour live radio marathon was held to support Miami Children's Hospital’s "Radio Lollipop,” a volunteer-run organization that uses music and activities to engage children at the hospital (read more - NBC 6 TV) iBiquity Digital Corporation and the Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors have formed an alliance to manufacture dedicated single chip software for in-car HD radios (read more - Mel Phillips) The Minnesota Pavek Museum Broadcast Hall of Fame has announced its 2008 inductees: Jason Davis,, Chuck Knapp, Lynn Dwyer, John Gordon, David Knutson, Chick McCuen, Ron Handberg, Pat Miles, Mel Paradis and Brad Johnson (read more - Twin Ports Media)
Here’s a
WMMS print ad from the mid seventies.
There were two area
Cox Enterprises intends to sell the Austin American-Statesman, its affiliated operations including Austin360.com, and all of Cox's stand-alone community newspapers in North Carolina, Colorado and Texas (read more - Atlanta JC) With advertisers and their clients demanding more and better ways to reach potential consumers, The Media Financial Management Association and its BCCA subsidiary will host a Regional Seminar focusing on the revenue opportunities these developments represent and the and operational enhancements they will require. “Follow the Money - Give Advertisers What They Want,” will be held on October 16 at The Penn Club in Downtown Manhattan (read more - MediaFinance.org) Gene Elston, the voice of the Astros radio broadcasts from 1962-86, was elected as the 2008 inductee into the Houston Baseball Media Wall of Honor (read more - MLB) Beasley Broadcast Group has revealed the winners of its annual Company Operating Awards. Thomas Manning - General Manager of the Year; Tom Calococci and T Gentry - Program Directors of the Year; John Jaras - Sales Manager of the Year; Pet Money - Business Manager of the Year; Power 96 WPOW-FM - Radio Station of the Year Howard Stern and iN Demand Networks have extended Howard's on-demand TV service through the end of 2010 (read more - MultiChannel News) Citadel's TalkRadio 790 KABC and 95.5 KLOS will host a ThinkCure! Radiothon to promote awareness and raise funds for cancer research from 5a.m. Friday, August 15 until Midnight, Saturday, August 16. Salem Communications has entered into an agreement to sell WRVI (105.9FM) to the WAY-FM Media Group, Inc. for $3 million (read more - MarketWatch) Wednesday August 13, 2008 Edition CBS Radio is garnering a larger share of digital advertising on the strength of improving online ratings, while political ads and Arbitron's Portable People Meters should help improve the outlook for traditional radio advertising, the unit's chief executive (Dan Mason) said. "Advertising is going through some difficult times now," Mason said (read more - David Wilkerson - MarketWatch) Rush Limbaugh: "Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk" (read more - Media Matters) Gospel radio host Donna Dukes was fired Tuesday from WATV 900 AM a week after she discussed her canceled women's conference on a rival station's morning show (read more - Joseph D. Bryant - Birmingham News) A radio station salesperson, Alana King, is suing her former employer for fraud, claiming the station has attempted to enforce a clause in her contract that never existed. Meanwhile, three of the four on-air personalities who quit WTVY-FM radio along with the salesperson and two others will return to the airwaves Wednesday (read more - Lance Griffin - Dothan Eagle) ARBitron numbers for Augusta-Waterville ME, Bangor, Binghamton NY, Charleston WV, Columbus GA, Duluth-Superior, Evansville, Erie, Lexington-Fayette, Lewiston-Auburn, Lubbock, Macon, Montgomery, Portland ME, Roanoke-Lynchburg and Springfield MO (read the numbers) A judge has decided that sports-talk radio host Kevin Slaten was sandbagging Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan when Duncan was interviewed March 27 on KFNS, and that Slaten must stay off the local airwaves until at least Oct. 5 (read more - William C. Lhotka - St Louis Post-Dispatch) The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will be adding a NYC location (read more - Crain's NY Biz) As if Don Imus, cattle auctions and the quilting show weren't enough, RFD-TV announced Tuesday it is bringing back possibly the most underrated program in the history of television: "Hee Haw" (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) Oldies maven Big Daddy - who left the night shift on WRIT-FM (95.7) five years ago - and his classic deejay patter and huge music library are available online from San Francisco’s KYOU-AM with a show at kyouradio.com airing from 8 to 11 p.m. Fridays and 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays Milwaukee time (read more - Tim Cuprisin - Milwaukee JS) Don’t say the record industry isn’t committed. Committed to suicide by lawsuit. Many label execs dislike the entire RIAA lawsuit campaign but somehow they let their trade organization continue to pursue suing their customers. They’ve made no friends and have not made a dent in music piracy which remains brisk. Oh, there was something else. But you may not call it news (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Lite 106.9 listeners want to know 'Where's John?' (read more -Tom Dorsey - Louisville Courier-Journal) Clear Channel Radio Chicago named Tony Coles vice president of programming and operations of its six-station cluster and program director of WLIT-FM 93.9, effective Sept. 2, and upped Rick O'Dell to program director of WNUA-FM (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) The bump in CBS Radio ratings is due to the streaming of stations on AOL. It should be noted that although CBS and AOL recently formed an alliance to offer the stations in one portal, various CBS stations (including WCBS-FM) have been streamed via AOL for several years now (read more - Mel Phillips) Today marks the 5,000th episode of X96's "Radio From Hell" FM radio morning show (read more - David Burger - Salt Lake Tribune) AOL has an article about jobs that are disappearing at radio. It comes as no surprise to those of us who work in or around the business. Hardly a day passes that I don’t get a least one call or email from someone frustrated by a job search. It’s very tough out there. The jobs are scarce. Pay appears to be way down. Yesterday for example a long time major market PD who is ‘between engagements’ told me he was offered a medium market job that paid in the mid $30,000 range. That same job would have paid double that ten years ago. He was used to making double even that in his old job. Quite a shock (read more - Alan Furst) Western Texas College is hiring Bob Lewis, also known as "Tumbleweed Smith," to manage the college's radio station, KGWB. Lewis has been producing his syndicated radio program, "The Sound of Texas," for about 40 years. Shawn Balint, of KTRS St. Louis, who was Dreith's personal selection for college radio station manager and instructor, came to Snyder in July, but did not sign his contract and left shortly thereafter (read more - Dink Foree - Abilene News-Reporter)
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Burps" iSuppli Corp. believes that market changes - including the merger of the two principal satellite broadcasters in the United States - will allow vehicle manufacturers to be more confident about supporting digital radio in their development roadmaps, boosting sales in the coming years (read more - Engineer Live) "The problem with a lot of Hispanic people, they're not very familiar with the people who are running for Congress or the government," said J.C. Tejeda, the Spanish program director at KCHR. "So it's our job to educate them and just give them the info and the 411 of every candidate, and they decide who to vote for" (read more - Rudabeh Shahbazi - KEPR TV) iPod and HD Radio myths and realities (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Morning host Steve Harvey of WBLS (107.5 FM), who co-starred with Bernie Mac in the "Kings of Comedy," called him "a great brother" and said they had remained good friends. Harvey opened the phones for listeners to tell their favorite Mac joke (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) Jay Dixon, the program director for Kiss 104.1, has held warm on-air remembrances for the late great Isaac Hayes. He was the morning producer for Hayes in the late 1990s in New York’s Kiss station (read more - Rodney Ho - Atlanta JC) The rise of social networking activity, coupled with texting and incessant cell phone use, has created a notable decrease in the use of email. That's what our Bedroomers told us. For many of them, key communication took place on MySpace, Facebook, and on their phones. Email was rapidly becoming a place where they conducted business and/or communicated with adults (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Music trends and our business: Historically, country music and rock formats have tended to do well in difficult economic times. Prediction: this means that country music and rock are in for a pretty good three to seven year run, because the 25 year super bubble that was the U.S. economy over the last two decades has now burst and the general public is very much aware of that fact (read more - Jaye Albright)
KERA, the public broadcasting
station for North Texas, will air
"Nowhere But Texas 2"
at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 9.
The program is a collection of short
documentaries
Premiere Radio Networks has launched “The iTunes Download,” a three-hour weekend music countdown show hosted by iTunes Director of Music Programming Alex Luke. This weekend, the syndicated radio program will debut on Top 40 radio stations nationwide from Los Angeles and will air on Saturdays or Sundays (read more - Clear Channel) The FCC is no longer opposed to cellphone use in planes; technology has resolved safety concerns; and a poll released last week by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics found that Americans are now split on whether it would be advisable to let the passenger in the next seat chat up his brother on the phone (read more - Alexandra Marks - Christian Science Monitor) The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), in conjunction with U.S. performing right organization BMI and the Mentoring and Inspiring Women (MIW) in Radio Group announced the recipients of 15 scholarships to Rising through the Ranks, the 2008 Women in Radio Management & Leadership Training Program at the RAB Academy in Dallas, September 9-10. Scholarships were awarded by a selection team consisting of representatives from BMI, MIW, and the RAB (read more - RAB) Envision Radio Networks’ Country Live USA adds KLAA-FM Alexandria, LA as its newest affiliate Lagniappe says that Matt McCoy, longtime morning man for WABB-FM 97.5, will soon be taking the mic at Q100 (read more - LagniappeMobile) SIRIUS XM Radio will broadcast a special tribute on SIRIUS’ Totally ‘70s channel commemorating Isaac Hayes, who died Sunday, August 10 at age 65. "A Final Visit from Isaac Hayes" will be broadcast on SIRIUS channel 7 on August 14 starting at 7 am ET Keith Olbermann is again being an embarrassment to MSNBC. The cable channel and MySpace have teamed up to choose two "citizen journalist" correspondents to cover the upcoming national political conventions. The "journalists" will be featured both on MySpace and MSNBC's campaign coverage. A spy said, "Every anchor is onboard and willing to play along, except Keith (read more - NY Post Page Six) On August 18, FOX Sports Radio host and two-time Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl Champion, James Washington, and AM 570 KLAC Commentator/FOX Sports Net Analyst, Matt Stevens, will host the “2008 Fun in the Sun Golf Tournament” in Pasadena to benefit Shelter 37, a non-profit corporation created by Washington for at-risk children in Southern California The NAB announced that television stations across the U.S. have embraced a pro-consumer initiative ensuring continued television service in the weeks leading up to and following the digital television transition (read more - NAB) (read more - Kim Hart - Washington Post) On Tuesday September 23, former Channel 2 Weatherman Barry Lillis, known for his smile and personality, will be enshrined in the Buffalo Broadcasting Hall of Fame along with Ron Jaworski, Art Wander, John Disciullo, Bill Stachowiak and Roger Baker (read more - WGRZ 2 TV) Tuesday August 12, 2008 Edition On Wednesday,
radio stations in Los Angeles and Orange County will get their
ratings for the first time from a new electronic monitoring system
(PPM),
replacing the decades-old method in which listeners scribbled in a
diary what Connecticut radio station owner John Fuller chimes in on the WPRO-AM ratings scandal (read more - view the video - ABC 6) Among many other things, Isaac Hayes was the morning host at WRKS (98.7 FM) from 1996 to 2001, and after his jolting death on Sunday, the people from that part of his life made it clear they really loved this guy (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) Sirius XM Radio CEO Mel Karmazin knows the merger between the two satellite radio companies took too long, but it was worth the wait, he told Jim Cramer on CNBC Monday (read more - Tom Brennan - CNBC) KIRO radio is simulcasting all programming on 97.3 FM and 710 AM. The FM signal will allow better reception in homes, automobiles, tunnels, under overpasses and in office buildings. Rod Arquette, KIRO - KTTH Program Director says “Puget Sound residents will immediately notice a better, cleaner sound on FM” Three people are to receive organs donated by BBC Radio Jersey presenter John Uphoff who died last week (read more - BBC U.K.) Industry observers agree that it's highly unlikely that a second player would enter the satellite radio field. Instead, the competition is coming from a wide array of media. Satellite radio, like terrestrial radio, faces increased competition from new media platforms that don't require a costly satellite network -- Internet radio, podcasting and increased sales of iPods and other portable music players (read more - Adrian McCoy - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) EsNtion Records has filed a civil suit against JonesTM, Incorporated -- formerly known as TM Century -- for allegedly illegally distributing EsNtion copyrighted music and video recordings produced exclusively for the EsNtion, EsNtion Latino, EsNtion Silver and Forever Soul labels (read more - MarketWatch) While I was away last week one of my readers posited that if I was so smart, why don’t terrestrial radio companies ask me to help them turn it around. My God, are you sure you are reading my pieces? I mean, I’ve indicted just about every terrestrial owner out there who has failed to keep their radio business afloat. These are the same suspects who have fired their own talented people, refused to hire proven consultants and think they have all the answers. Still, it’s a good question (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) SIRIUS XM should not have a problem refinancing any of this debt. So what does it mean to shareholders? It should mean nothing! That’s right, absolutely NOTHING! As the old converts are paid off, the existing short positions are covered, and the shares returned. The replacing converts (assuming this is the debt instrument chosen at that time) short against the new. The net effect is a zero-sum-game (read more - Tyler Savery - iStock Analyst) Ten years ago, when Bob Buchmann was program director at WBAB (102.3 FM) on Long Island, he read a statement from a manager at WNEW-FM (102.7 FM) that rock radio could no longer work in New York. "I found that so totally wrong," he says, "that I called the people at AM-FM, who then owned WAXQ (104.3 FM), and asked if their programming job was still open. It became my personal mission to prove that statement wrong" (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) "Mad Men" Debut A Ratings Hit: Draws 2 Million Viewers For Highest Audience Ever." That's double the first season average. Heretofore, AMC had been best known as that cable network that runs all the old movies, but not as old as the ones on Turner Classic Movies. But in part as a result of Mad Men, AMC's overall ratings are up and the network is suddenly transformed into a destination, not simply a utility (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) KSSK radio's Michael W. Perry and Larry Price celebrated a milestone Saturday at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. For 25 years now, they've stood side by side in the same spot (read more - Duane Shimogawa - KHNL TV) WFOR-TV/CBS 4 has announced a continuing partnership with Spanish Broadcasting System’s WRMA-Romance 106.7FM, and WSBS-MEGA TV to provide the Hispanic community of South Florida with vital information on how to achieve higher levels of preparedness during the 2008 Hurricane Season Wendy Williams has launched a six-week "sneak peek" of her TV talk show, The Wendy Williams Show. The show made a splash when former Apprentice contest-villain Omarosa made a stir (see the clip) fighting on-air with Williams, and prompting the NY Times' Alessandra Stanley to write, "At long last a breakthrough in daytime programming: the backtalk show." We spoke to Williams recently to ask her about the new show as well as how she can not only dish it out (read the interview - Gothamist) Cumulus Media reported financial results for the three and six months ended June 30 (read more - Cumulus) ARBitron numbers for Cedar Rapids, Florence SC, Hilton Head SC, Kalispell-Flathead Valley MT, Las Cruces, Myrtle Beach and Providence (read the numbers) In a new brief filed at the Supreme Court by some of the most influential people in broadcasting - Former FCC Chairmen Newton Minow and Mark Fowler, along with former FCC Commissioner Jim Quello - the FCC's attack on indecency has been referred to as a "Victorian crusade" (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Talk radio’s eruption over the “Gang of Ten” bipartisan energy proposal continued on Monday, as U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss got into it - in polite fashion - with WSB talk guru Neal Boortz over the issue (read more - Jim Galloway - Atlanta JC) Chalk this victory up for the little guy or girl in this case as 16-year old Whitney Harper whose downloading fine, originally priced at $750 per song for the 37 songs she illegally downloaded was reduced to $200 per song. U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez lowered the fine apparently believing that she had no idea she was accessing copyrighted material. Could this be a precedent setting court decision in an era when copyright lawsuits from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) can reach as astronomically high as $30,000 per song??? (read more - Mel Phillips) Abdullatif Al Sayegh, CEO of Arab Media Group, the largest media organisation in the UAE, today announced the appointment of Steve Smith, an industry veteran, as Chief Operating Officer of Arabian Radio Network (read more - AME Info) Envision Radio Networks’ The Rockin’ ‘80s celebrates Labor Day with rockers like Sammy Hagar and Tommy Shaw, The Marguerite Casey Foundation has given $250,000 to Austin's KUT Latino USA radio program in (read more - Austin Biz Journal) Fox is talking about some sort of primetime tribute to comedian Bernie Mac, who died over the weekend (read more - Tim Cuprisin - Milwaukee JS) The BBC has lost its standing as one of the world’s finest broadcasting organisations in the eyes of its staff, according to Sir Terry Wogan. The presenter, who for many years was one of British television’s biggest stars, claimed that staff no longer valued working for the Corporation in the way that they once did. The “old fashioned thoroughness and commitment” formerly displayed at the BBC was no longer there, Sir Terry told Radio Times in an outspoken interview to mark his 70th birthday (read more - Ben Quinn - The Times U.K.) Jay Dixon, the program director for Kiss 104.1, has held warm on-air remembrances for the late great Isaac Hayes. He was the morning producer for Hayes in the late 1990s in New York’s Kiss station (read more - Rodney Ho - Atlanta JC) The clock is ticking on the FCC's free wireless broadband proposal, with organizations on both sides of the debate stepping up their arguments (read more - Nancy Gohring - PC World)
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Burps" As anyone who deals with Arbitron ratings knows, the impact that 6 diaries can have on a ratings period is mind-numbing - even though Providence is a decent sized market with a metro population of 1,376,500 (ranked #39th) and presumably an adequate number of diaries to appropriately measure the market. Imagine the impact in a smaller market (read more - Harve Alan) The memorial service for Skip Caray, the Atlanta Braves longtime broadcaster who passed away last week, concluded late Monday afternoon (read more - Christian Boone - Atlanta JC) The 104.3 MYfm, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and sponsor, Foresters 5th annual "Radiothon Making Miracles Happen" successfully raised more than three-quarters of a million dollars for the hospital and the Children’s Miracle Network bring the total amount raised over the last 5 years to $3,250,000 The Virginia Beach City Council will vote tonight on whether the Christian Broadcasting Network can build a proposed 150-home subdivision near Regent University (read more - Deirdre Fernandes - Virginian Pilot) Celebrity tidbits are a Palm Beach Daily News staple. The May 1 issue ran a picture of a cat named Pumpkin or ``Punky'' Limbaugh, owned by political commentator and Palm Beach resident Rush Limbaugh (read more - Rachel Zahorsky - Bloomberg) A quick answer to
the question of whether or not to put any faith in what celebrities
have to say about politics and politicians is: "No more or less than
anyone else." People routinely listen to Conservative talk show
hosts such as Sean Hannity,
Bill O'Reilly, and
Rush Limbaugh, who are, after
all, nothing more than celebrities who are entertainers. Monday’s report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations brought the bad news that magazine newsstand sales fell sharply for the first half of 2008 (read more - Matthew Flamm - Crain's NY Biz) KSHE2, Classic KSHE made HD Radio history this past weekend at the Washington Town and Country Fair in Washington, Missouri, when KSHE2 broadcast the Charlie Daniels Band concert live as it happened Monday August 11, 2008 Edition Mel Karmazin
is on a mission. Now that the creation of
Sirius XM
is official, terrestrial radio's
formerly brightest star is after nothing short of total domination
of his old medium.
"We're CC Media Holdings, the new parent company of Clear Channel Communications, today reported results for its second quarter ended June 30 (read more - Trading Markets) Curtis Sliwa says the upcoming trial of John Gotti Jr. could mean a reunion, in a way, of the old Curtis and Ron Kuby morning team from WABC (770 AM). Kuby says don't plan on it (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) Musician and DJ Isaac Hayes, 65, died early Sunday morning in Memphis (read more - WMC TV) CNBC will have the Olympic Games. Fox Business Network has gamesmanship. "To be honest, it just seems like one of those great opportunities where the target is there and shame on us if we don't go after it," said Kevin Magee, a Fox executive vice president. Monday CNBC switches at 4 p.m. from business to Beijing boxing (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Sun-Times) It turns out that no Olympic event that NBC promotes as being live in prime time is shown live in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, as they are in any other TV series. But the Olympics is not just any program, or so NBC tells us (read more - Richard Sandomir - NY Times) Missed the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch lighting ceremony? (watch it in 4:42 minutes - YouTube - CCTV) Jeff Smulyan takes pride in the corporate culture of Emmis Communications. Still, it's hard to maintain morale when the radio business is taking more hits than a punch-drunk boxer. Lamented Smulyan: "We're an industry that can't find its bottom." He didn't add: "with both hands" (read more - John Ketzenberger - Indy Star)
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Burps" Howard Stern will likely be the biggest “BEST OF” draw. Stern, used to only be available on Sirius, and for those that bought a car that only installed XM, were either forced to buy a Sirius retail device and get a full subscription to Sirius on top of their XM subscription, or to simply do without Stern. These consumers now have an inexpensive and viable option that allows them to Access Howard Stern without the cost of new equipment, without cluttering up the dashboard, and without paying a full $12.95 per month for the second service (read more - Tyler Savery - iStockAnalyst) Bonneville International will move its federally-focused radio station, WFED Federal News Radio, to a full-market signal on 1500 AM and 820 AM in Frederick in the fall of this year Canwest Global Communications said it had sold three U.K.-based radio stations on Monday, stating the FM outlets "could not meet (their) financial performance expectations" (read more - Vancouver Sun) The story of John Edwards's affair with a former campaign aide became so widely known - what a Slate blogger called "undernews" - that by last week there seemed little point in the mainstream media gatekeepers' keeping it isolated outside their moat. And yet, even as some national news organizations tried halfheartedly to confirm the tawdry tale, they ignored it in public -- wary of the National Enquirer, of Edwards's dismissal of "tabloid trash," of wading once again into the swamp of sexual scandal without definitive proof (read more - Howard Kurtz - Washington Post) Univision has promoted Joanne Lynch to president of the Television Station Group (read more - MarketWatch) A couple of weeks ago - June 21, to be exact - one of our quarterly quizzes ran in this space. And one of the questions was about WPOP. It mentioned several of the station's most popular disc jockeys, "Lovable" Lou Terri, Don Blair, Sal LaRosa, Bob Marx, Del Raycee and Lee "Baby" Simms, and asked which two were New Britainites. The answer given was Bob Marx and the late Sal LaRosa. But it turns out there were actually three longtime Hardware City residents in that group, and the one we omitted just happens to have been a broadcasting giant. Oops. A couple of regular readers of this family newspaper sent copies of the column to Don Blair's home in Florida, and it brought back a lot of memories for the veteran network broadcaster. Who is Don Blair? (read more - Bart Fisher - New Britain Herald) Sirius XM Radio CEO Mel Karmazin has some advice for Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman: put some distance between yourself and Sumner Redstone (read more - Peter Lauria - NY Post) Newspapers stink. Using them for wrapping fish is too good. And, I like newspapers. That is, until now. And it struck me that newspapers and radio have a lot in common. I used to like radio a lot better in the past. Radio stations and newspapers are shortchanging their public on content and blaming technology for their ills. It’s not the technology - in either case - that’s killing them. Technology just provides the delivery system. After all descendants of Johan Gutenberg's printing press from 1439 can’t be the only means of distributing news forever. It’s about - here we go again - the content (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) From Claude Hall
-- Guest Commentary by George
Wilson:
There were many nice things that
happened along the way, but the worst experience stands out like a
sore thumb. Many talented people touched my life and helped my
career. One of them was Buzz
Bennett. Buzz first joined me
in Baltimore at
WITH.
Buddy Deane,
a friend of Jack Gale,
told me about this great young man that was
Univision newscaster Jorge Ramos will receive the Award for a Lifetime of Achievement in Hispanic Television, presented by Multichannel News and Broadcasting & Cable magazines at a luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 23, at the New York Hilton (read more - MultiChannel News) Just when you think the musicFIRST coalition couldn't come up with more outrageous arguments, they use the Clear Channel $24 billion sale as a rationale to extract more money from the radio business. Their Executive Director, Doyle Bartlett, offers this original argument: "Without music, this deal would be impossible. Without music, Clear Channel's radio empire would just be castles in the sand" (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Oprah Winfrey’s reign as a ratings powerhouse is over. The show has been drifting back to Earth, losing 7 percent of its audience nationwide this year alone. O the Magazine saw a double-digit decline in circulation. Authors can no longer count on the “Oprah effect.” And her endorsement of Barack Obama may have turned off, literally, viewers who supported Hillary Clinton (read more - Aaron Barnhart - KC Star) From Tommy Kramer
-- Here’s a tip for everyone,
but especially News Talents. Avoid “news-speak.” Reading wire copy, with its abundance of
official-sounding
Dave Ankers has been named as USRN’s new VP/Operations and Digital Media and Judy Rosen has been named as the VP/Managing Director of Pulse Content for the company’s Pulse of Radio division which provides prep services and online news content in a dozen different radio formats to over 500 affiliated stations Doug Stephan's Good Day adds affiliates, WHBU AM in Indianapolis and WPRS AM in Terre Haute and Good Day Health with Dr. Ken Kronhaus and Good Day Wealth with Georges Yared add WVNJ AM in New York Nielsen Business Media has promoted Bill Werde, Executive Editor of Billboard, to Editorial Director for the brand (read more - Business Week) Citadel revenues declined 9% over last year. Network revenues were off 11% and there was an 8% revenue drop at Citadel stations. You claim that your $20 million in programming and personnel cuts from, as you put it “a whole bunch of positions” and expense cuts from the last quarter are beginning to show promise – and did you really say that you predict it will ramp up to $15 million in revenue by 2010? (read more - John Gorman) The owner of a radio station said vehicles at the business have been broken into the last three nights in a row. Charles Evers of Jackson's WMPR said he's instructed his employees to shoot to kill (read more - WAPT TV 16)
Got yours yet? Hurry!
Discounted tickets
are selling fast for the Sunday
afternoon October 26
Only 17 months old, KRYP-FM - "El Rey" - has become the king of Portland radio (read more - The Oregonian) Is Google a media company? (read more - Miguel Helft - NY Times) Smooth Radio Glasgow was heavily criticised yesterday after it emerged that it had sacked six Scottish DJs and increased its use of celebrity presenters' programmes broadcast from London (read more - Carolyn Churchill - The Herald U.K.) It’s the difference in opinion that makes talk radio work. The problem is, most hosts don’t allow much room for that difference of opinion. It’s their opinion and nobody else’s. How many times do you hear a caller shouted down by the host because they have a different viewpoint? The network hosts are most insecure when it comes to callers. You’d think the guys making big bucks could handle a caller from Long Island without yelling at him and calling him a moron. That’s real entertainment in my book (read more - Alan Furst) Cable news ratings have risen sharply, with record viewership for debates and growing numbers for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC and Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Sites including MSNBC.com and CNN.com have set new records for views of online videos. A trade association for newspapers has placed advertisements telling campaign managers that “newspapers deliver voters.” But many media companies are struggling to translate campaign coverage into repeat readers and viewers - or revenue (read more - Brian Stelter and Richard Perez-Pena - NY Times) From Mimi Chen: I am going crazy from all the people mispronouncing Beijing. It is pronounced BAY (as in E-BAY) and Jing (as in Jingo or Jingle bells) it is NOT pronounced like a zhing or soft gee. It is NOT French! I have been hearing it mispronounced not only on network news, but also in ads, the news and in commercials and it drives me crazy. My dad was born and raised in Beijing. I know how it's supposed to sound. If you know anyone at CNN, please forward this! All the big networks are driving me crazy. Chinese people are too polite to correct dumb American people. (but I'm not polite - so) For more than a year, the Federal Communications Commission has been trying to institute rules that would require the telcos to equip their cell phone tower sites with backup service that would keep them running for at least eight hours. But the wireless industry - led by CTIA -the Wireless Association, Sprint Nextel Corp. and others - has resisted this, saying it is too expensive (read more - Mike Wendland - Detroit Free Press) Progressives love NPR. If you take a look at Arbitron figures, you’ll see one of the big problems for Progressive Talk is NPR’s morning and afternoon shows. In many markets they not only beat Progressive Talk, but the beat the other right-wing talk stations as well. What does this tell you? (read more - Michael Rafone) The Fairness Doctrine would create only the illusion of a surge for liberal talk radio, John Neurohr, the press secretary at the Center for American Progress said, noting that some progressive hosts, such as Ed Schultz, manage to bring in high numbers simply because they're entertaining. Most critics say that the doctrine is unlikely to be reinstated and is being used by the left as an empty threat and by the right as a rallying cry. Still, Christian broadcasters are bracing for its re-emergence, said Frank Wright, the president of the National Religious Broadcasters. "This is not the time to despair," he said. "If all these bad things happen, we're going to sue immediately" (read more - Winston-Salem Journal - Religion News Service) The Old FCC consisting of former FCC chairmen Newton (”TV’s a vast wasteland”) Minnow, Mark Fowler and former commissioner James Quello have filed a brief with the Supreme Court asking the Supes to strip the FCC of its power to regulate indecency entirely, according to Broadcasting Cable. They claim that the current FCC “is on a Victorian crusade” that hurts broadcasters, viewers and the Constitution (read more - Mel Phillips) GoAmerica has appointed former FCC commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy to its Board of Directors (read more - CNN Money) Beginning August 18, Ryan Seacrest's "On Air" will become VIBE 98.5's new midday show, running from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. Monday to Friday (read more - Kelly Doody - Calgary Sun CA) ARBitron numbers for Albuquerque, Charleston SC, Des Moines, El Paso, Madison and Spokane (read 'em) Chester Smith, who started his career as a country music singer and radio broadcaster and built a television station empire based in the Modesto area that earned him millions and the respect of those he inspired, died Friday (read more- Modesto Bee) Lou Teicher,
hald of the team of Ferrante
and Teicher, has died of heart
failure
(read more - www.JohnRook.com) Larry Dirksen, who first came to KOTA Radio and TV in May of 1972, died early Sunday morning (read more - 1380 KOTA) The August 18th Fourth Annual WBAP Hal Jay Invitational is where listeners can register to win prizes, bid on great silent and live auction items and have a great day of golf with Hal Jay and Steve Lamb, and all proceeds go to The Can Academies of Fort Worth and Dallas Friday August 8, 2008 Edition Sirius XM
will introduce in three months a special new a la carte radio that,
while not dual mode, will offer packages that let XM users pick some
"select" Sirius programming and vice versa.
A Sirius representative says the
company will also offer a "best of" option in three months to users
with existing This month, KGO celebrates 30 years as the No. 1 radio station in Northern California. And President and General Manager Michael "Mickey" Luckoff, who is 72, has just been inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame, joining a pantheon that includes Rush Limbaugh, Dick Clark and Orson Welles (read more - Heidi Benson - San Francisco Chronicle) Kevin Metheny, regional vice president of programming for Clear Channel Cleveland, has been ousted from that post according to Mike Kenney, Clear Channel market manager/vice president. Kenney declined to elaborate, except to say that WTAM program director Ray Davis has been named interim regional vice president (read more - Julie E. Washington - Cleveland Plain Dealer) ARBitron numbers for Chattanooga, Columbia SC. Greenville-Spartanburg. Huntsville. Little Rock. Omaha-Council Bluffs. Shreveport and Wichita (read the numbers) When Rick Dees left KIIS-FM after 23 years, it was treated more like a farewell than a new beginning. Truth is, Dees is more active today than ever, and we're not just talking about his morning drive show on KMVN "Movin' 93.9 FM" + Salem-owned KRLA 870 AM found it was not immune to the economic struggles and had to let go several staffers, including Craig Edwards, program director, and Fran Tunno, copywriter and frequent "voice" for the station(read more - Gary Lycan - OC Register) Chicago Sun-Times parent Sun-Times Media Group thinks it might be able to shave $10 million in 2009 expenses just by going private or deregistering its stock under federal securities laws. Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co. is eliminating hundreds of jobs nationwide and reducing the size of its papers, including here at the company flagship, where an anxious staff awaits follow-through any day now on cuts announced earlier (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) Univision Communications announced financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30 today (read more - MarketWatch) What do you think of the latest change on KSFI ("FM-100")?Several weeks ago, the station began a process of meticulously announcing the title and artist of each song as it ends. This tagging process has created somewhat of a stir, if only because it can, at times, make KSFI sound like another station that has been tagging for a long time - KJQN ("Jack FM") (read more - Lynn Arave - Deseret News) Readers' reactions to Thursday's report about Joe Ahern, boss of CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, forcing staffers to pay for his birthday party: Amy Maynard: With Joe Ahern's $5,000 lunch and birthday bash fiasco, can we safely assume that this is finally the beginning of the end of Mr. Ahern in Chicago? (read more - Robert Feder - Chicago Sun-Times) Radio and politics
make strange bedfellows. Or, do they? ABC’s annual countdown to the new year in the Eastern time zone used to be called “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” Henceforth, it is known as “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest” (read more - Tim Cuprisin - Milwaukee JS) Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin told analysts Thursday the newly merged company expects to offer interoperable radios even before the nine-month deadline set by the FCC (read more - Amy Gilroy - TWICE) (read more - Rick Aristotle Munarriz - Motley Fool) (read more - Joseph Hargett - Schaeffer Research) (read more - Ruthie Ackerman - Forbes)
All Comedy Radio "News
Burps" With the stroke of a pen, New York Governor David A. Paterson made New York the 8th (there’s that number again) state to pass a “Broadcast Employees Freedom To Work Act” a.k.a. “a disc jockey’s dream come true”. This bill throws out “non-compete” agreements that don’t allow broadcasters to take another job in the region they were working in when they left the station (read more - Mel Phillips) Ron Smith, who has been hosting a talk show on WBAL-AM since 1985, will continue his work with the station. But every Wednesday on The Baltimore Sun's op-ed page, he will commit his conservative musings to paper in a column (read more - view the video - Chris Kaltenbach - Baltimore Sun) "We have to sort of reinvent ourselves to not only keep our core audience but also to draw a new one," said WXPN radio personality Gene Shay, who co-founded the Philadelphia Folk Festival event and has hosted it every year since it began in 1962 (read more - Nicole Pensiero - South Jersey Courier Post ) Today, LA Talk Radio launches its new morning talk show "Sam & Suzy in the Morning" to "continue the station's tradition of irreverent, entertaining and cool programming" (read more - PR Web) HipCricket has expanded its deal with Katz Radio (read more - Trading Markets) Just a little less than three weeks ago, Steve Ladd, who has served as the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival's master of ceremonies for the past five years, died following a sudden brain aneurism at his home in Memphis. Beginning as a DJ for stations in California and Oklahoma, Ladd eventually took a on-air position for KKDA in Dallas where he worked for a total of 19 years. After leaving Dallas, Ladd spent time as the road manager for blues musician’s ZZ Hill and Johnnie Taylor before relocating to Clarksdale where he worked for a time as the station manager for WROX and ran sound at Ground Zero. Following his time in Clarksdale, Ladd moved on to Memphis where he served as host of the Fun Afternoon Show on WDIA until his death on July 20 (read more - Andy Ross - Clarksdale Press Register) Rick Dees in the Morning and the entire staff of LA's Movin 93.9 will be at the Albertson's in Montebello from 7 - 7 pm this Wednesday, August 13 to make donations for the LA Regional Food Bank AOL has released its fourth annual survey about email, and there's a whole lot of addiction going on. Nearly half of respondents say they're hopelessly hooked on email (up from 15% a year ago). One in five say they check email more than 10 times each day. How bad is it? (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Veteran ABC News Radio correspondent John Cooley passed away yesterday in Athens, Greece after a three year battle with cancer Longtime radio personality and humorist Bob Martz died Aug. 2, leaving a legacy of more than 50 years in the industry. His memory will be honored by a tribute, “Sentimental Journey,” broadcast from 11 a.m. to noon Aug. 9 on WCWA-AM 1230 (read more - Scott McKimmy - Toledo Free Press) This Saturday,
August 9, is the 30th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen & the E
Street Band’s legendary free
WMMS 10th Anniversary concert
at the Cleveland Agora on E 24th. I remember the first time I heard of Limbaugh. It was right after I started writing this column and before the conservative talker was heard on KFI. A reader wrote in asking me if I was familiar with him, and if I would promote the show. I had no clue what he was talking about. "Rush?" I thought. "Who the heck is he?" Little did I know that he would soon be among the top-rated talk hosts in the nation and that I would become a big fan. Those who have never listened to Limbaugh often don't understand what he does (read more - Richard Wagoner - San Bernadino Sun) Don Wiggins is the general sales manager at Clear Channel’s WMIB 103.5 The Beat, one of South Florida’s urban contemporary radio stations. The long trip from Michigan to South Florida leaves a distinct reminiscent smile on Wiggins’ face as he reflects on his journey in radio. Radio became a lifestyle for Wiggins during his high school years. He worked as an on-air personality for a local Top 40 station in the Michigan market (read more - Wanjira Banfield - South Florida Times) Roe Conn and the University of Illinois are celebrating 50 years of aerial antics over Chicago this Saturday August 16 on WLS 890 to promote USO (read more - WLS 890) Rock the Bayou, a brand new music festival in Houston is bringing some of the biggest rockers in the country to one of its largest states and Envision Radio Networks' The Tour Bus is heading south to preview the festival with a free Labor Day radio special Twenty years ago this month, a now-retired ABC executive named Edward McLaughlin pulled the Missouri native (Rush Limbaugh) out of local-market obscurity in Sacramento. It was pre-Newt, pre-Bill and Hill, long before Gore, Perot, Monica and Bush II. In this post-9/11 age, 1988 seems eons ago. Along the way, Limbaugh made a strategic decision to ride his own roller coaster (read more - Chuck Raasch - USA Today) Thursday August 7, 2008 Edition Ex-Boston radio
gabster John DePetro
is in the midst of yet another
controversy.
A ratings cheating scandal uncovered in Rhode Island boosted
DePetro’s ratings on Providence news talk station
WPRO-AM (630),
where he hosts a morning-drive show.
The cheating revelations come after
the Citadel WFMU (91.1 FM) is continuing its 50th anniversary celebration this weekend with three days of "WFMU Radio Greats" + Mike Gallagher, whose nationally syndicated show will be heard 9 a.m.-noon on the new talk station WNYM (970 AM), said he was pleasantly surprised and encouraged yesterday by how many New York calls were already waiting on his first day back in town (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) My passion for local radio began back in grade school, as I sat mesmerized in front of my clock radio and listened to KSJO's late-great Tawn Mastrey deliver magic on a nightly basis. That passion has continued to this day. A recent road trip in a friend's car, where my pal blasted highly mediocre Sirius channels during the whole round trip, got me thinking about all the things I love about local radio (read more - Jim Harrington - Contra Costa Times) Citadel Broadcasting posted a huge second-quarter loss as it was hurt by impairment charges and higher expenses (read more - Reuters) SIRIUS XM Radio today announced stand alone SIRIUS Satellite Radio second quarter 2008 financial results, including a 25% increase in revenue to $283.0 million, total subscribers in excess of 8.9 million and a 70% decrease in the adjusted loss from operations (read more - Reuters) (read more - Bloomberg) (read more - Sirius) Spanish Broadcasting System today reported financial results for the three- and six-month periods (read more - Earth Times) Regent Communications announced financial results for the quarter and six months (read more - Regent Communications) Randi Rhodes, a former Air America radio host was exercising her First Amendment rights when she assailed military contractor CACI International on the air, saying it was behind the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, an appeals court has ruled (read more - Zach Lowe - Law.com) (read more - RCFP) Can a crankiness land you in court? The case of Sandra Brown v. Victoria Osteen is the story of a chance encounter on an airplane that turned into a nasty legal battle. Osteen is the wife of popular self-help author and television minister Joel Osteen, who heads the Lakewood Church, Houston's largest congregation. Brown is a flight attendant for Continental Airlines (read more - Gina Sunseri - ABC News) Radio is dying? Dave Ross has heard that one before. In fact, he heard it when he took his first job in radio out of college, as a police reporter for an Atlanta station. "Everyone talked about radio dying then," he recalls. Radio is still around. So are the constant predictions of its demise. And Ross is still around, recently marking his 30th year with KIRO-AM/710, as well as nearly 21 years as a talk host at the station (read more - Bill Virgin - Seattle PI) Like psychotic parents who starve their child to death, while chained to a bed post, corporate CEOs keep making moves to starve radio to death by axing the content providers while they haul home huge salaries and bonuses. Takes the case of Citadel, a one time small market company, who swallowed up the ABC O&O’s. They’ve been like a snake that gorged itself on too big of a lamb, and now lay under a rock helpless trying to digest what its eaten. Their chairman Farid Suleman took home eleven million last year, and yesterday their stock closed at eighty-seven cents a share (read more - Michael Rafone) Howard Stern's sidekick Artie Lange is now in rehab (read more - NY Post Page Six) (read more - Fox News) Remember the little item here Wednesday about Joe Ahern and the $5,000 lunch? Well, it gets even better + It's time for the ninth annual radiothon to benefit Children's Memorial Hospital, hosted by Eric Ferguson and Kathy Hart, the morning team on Bonneville International hot adult-contemporary WTMX-FM (101.9) (read more - Robert Feder - Chicago Sun-Times) Disc jockeys
Rowdy Yates (KILT-FM) and
C.C. McCartney (formerly of
KRBE-FM)
will be inducted into the
Texas Radio Hall of Fame
in a ceremony in October at
Fort Worth's Billy Bob's
790 KABC's Al Rantel is off the air for a few weeks recovering from hip and shoulder injuries but he hopes to return to the air in time for the last stretch of the election season Today, AM and FM radio stations pay zero royalties to artists when they play their songs over the air. That means every time you hear a song on KFOG-FM (97.7) or KEZR-FM (Mix 106.5), no performer - from the frontman to the session musicians - is compensated. As a point of reference, that same song played over the Internet, satellite radio, television or in any other Western democracy would earn a royalty for the artists and musicians that brought the music to life (read more - John Simson - Mercury News) The reporters and anchors at news/talk station KOGO haven't had the easiest time of it lately. The station no longer airs a morning news show, for one thing, and it laid off three longtime journalists back in February. Lately, rival KPBS-FM has been boosting its own local news operation and dipping into coverage of breaking news, all part of an effort to fill the holes left by cutbacks at KOGO. But last week, KOGO showed it's still got some mojo (read more - Randy Dotinga - NC San Diego Times) At 35, with fewer than five years of national broadcast experience under her belt, Rachel Maddow is the explosive star of the season. She's gone from being a popular guest analyst on MSNBC to an exclusive commentator to a regular guest host for the network's prize pig, Countdown With Keith Olbermann. Now there is increasing clang and clamor over the possibility that she will get her own show on MSNBC (read more - Rebecca Traister - The Nation) I favor lots of local shows - especially in the morning - and using local radio to grow the next batch of talent. An occasional national show - a good one - could be an asset. But it does not replace local programming. My beef is that operators are loading up on syndication - especially after 7pm to turn their stations into duplication centers. No cost, just content produced somewhere else. Back to the (Michael) Savage controversy. I personally have no time for his act. I recognize that his followers and many stations do. I’m on the side of the autism support groups that are outraged by the comments that Savage and TRN are spinning now (TRN set up SavageOnAutism.com to explain his side - their right) (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) The Chinese are starting the Summer Olympics on 8-8-08 because 8 is their lucky number, something Westwood One was hoping would rub off on them in selling the summer games. It didn’t happen (read more - Mel Phillips) iBiquity Digital Corp.'s Michigan automotive sales office is growing fast as it projects a surge in demand for high-definition, or HD radio. Growth expectations triggered the company's move from its Pontiac office to a larger space in Auburn Hills (read more - Carol Marshall - Oakland Business Review)
All Comedy Radio "News
Burps" Glen Mabie, who quit as news director of Eau Claire’s WEAU-TV because his station had struck a deal with a local hospital to sponsor health segments that featured only hospital personnel as sources, is the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists annual Ethics in Journalism award (read more - Tim Cuprisin - Milwaukee JS) Smokey Rivers has been named program director for Newstalk 550 KFYI and Sports Talker XTRA 910 AM (read more - Phoenix Biz Journal) ARBitron numbers for Grand Rapids, Johnson City - Kingsport, Knoxville, Nashville and Oklahoma City (read the numbers)
Entravision Communications reported second quarter net income applicable to common stockholders of $10.74 million or $0.12 per share, compared to $8.60 million or $0.08 per share in the same quarter of last year. Revenues for the quarter were $62.93 million, compared to $66.54 million in the prior year quarter (read more - RTT News) It's not as if X'ers are not into technology but as Charles Golvin, principal analyst at Forrester Research explained in Business Week magazine, "the key distinction between Generation X and Y is that Generation X uses technology when it supports a "lifestyle need" whereas tech is "embedded into everything Gen Yers do" making them the first "native online population" (read more - Harve Alan) Worst-dressed celebrity list critic, Mr. Blackwell, has been hospitalized (read more - Access Hollywood) When Spanish Broadcasting System went on the air recently from its new studio, the Miami-based radio, TV and internet network did more than unveil a new look. It became one of the first Hispanic networks to implement full HD production (read more - Christopher MacManus - Sony Insider) The longtime voice of Aspen Public Radio (KAJX) was silenced on Tuesday when John Noonan, who served for years as the station’s morning news anchor and host, died of cancer after a long battle with the disease (read more - David Frey - Aspen Daily News) There are those times when I actually do want to hear what the fans think, rare as they may be. I happened to be in Boston last Thursday when the news of the Manny Ramirez to the Dodgers trade broke. Knowing there would be a mixed reaction, I had the chance to listen to Boston's WEEI for a couple hours. In addition to official reaction, they basically became "all Manny" until 11:00 that night, as it happened that the Red Sox were idle that day. There was one instance where hearing the same opinions, positive or negative, really were interesting listening (read more - Dave Kohl) Greater Media Rocker WRIF's Peter Werbe is on vacation so program director Doug Podell is turning MichiGuide.com's Art Vuolo and Mike Austerman loose this Sunday night from 11 pm - 2 am EDT for three hours of call-ins and talk. WRIF streams live at WRIF.com Consumers are getting confused. A number of research studies have shown that the more choices a consumer has, the more likely that consumer will be unhappy with the choice he or she does make (read more - Al Ries - Ad Age) Former Live and Kicking presenter and BBC and Channel 4 executive Andi Peters is joining digital station Heat Radio (read more - John Plunkett - Media Guardian U.K.) Growth in consumer demand for high-tech features supplied in new vehicles has led to a significant increase in market penetration for satellite radio and navigation systems according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Multimedia Quality and Satisfaction Study released today. The study finds that 55 percent of new-vehicle owners report having satellite radio capability in their audio system, up considerably from 39 percent in 2007 (read more - IT News) Envision Radio Networks’ Country Live USA adds KSOK-FM/ Arkansas City, KS as its newest affiliate Premiere
Radio host Blair
Wednesday August 6, 2008 Edition Mel Karmazin says he spent the past year of his life in constant fear that his dream deal - the merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Radio - was about to unravel. Now comes the fun part - And while integrating mergers is a nightmare for most executives, Mr. Karmazin, chairman of the newly minted Sirius XM Radio, says he loves it. He has to slash some $400 million in annual costs and seems almost giddy at the prospect (read more - Andrew Ross Sorkin - NY Times) Sirius XM Radio CEO Mel Karmazin was on Fox News 'Your World' with Neil Cavito yesterday (read the transcript - Fox News) Multi-million dollar severance deals protect XM Satellite executives (read more - Darlene Darcy - Washington Biz Journal) It's yesterday's news that the Federal Communications Commission has, by a 3-2 majority, given the go-ahead for Sirius satellite radio to acquire XM. But now the FCC has issued its complete Order, which sweats the details of the deal and discloses the agency's reasoning (read more - Matthew Lasar - Ars Technica) Tom Tradup, vice president of news and talk for Salem, called the launch "a humbling and exciting experience." To no one's surprise, the city's latest conservative news/talk station launched at 9 a.m. Wednesday, when Mike Gallagher took the microphone at WNYM (970 AM) + Morning host Elvis Duran of WHTZ (100.3 FM) has had a cupcake named after him (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) In dumping "Morning Fix" holdovers Alan Cox and Jim Lynam last week, bosses of the Emmis Communications station again hoped to recover from their decision to part ways with Mancow Muller in July 2006. In hindsight, it's looking worse than ever + Eat at Joe's: In another tale of woe, CBS refused to reimburse Joe Ahern, Channel 2's notoriously extravagant president and general manager, for a $5,000 lunch tab he submitted on his expense account (read more - Robert Feder - Chicago Sun-Times) Radio One's loss grew with a drop in ad sales (read more - Anita Huslin - Washington Post) News Corp. reported a 27 percent increase in fourth-quarter net income, driven mainly by its film studio and cable networks, as well as one-time gains from an asset swap with Liberty Media and the sales of Fox Sports Bay Area and Gemstar-TV Guide (read more - Peter Lauria - NY Post) Jeff Goldblatt, a Chicago-based correspondent for Fox News Channel, has emerged as the odds-on choice to become Robin Robinson's new co-anchor on Fox-owned WFLD-Ch. 32's 9 p.m. news (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) 94 WYSP is considering flipping formats to classic rock around Labor Day, sources say (read more - Dan Gross - Philly News) There’s no word on when quirky noncommercial WMSE-FM (91.7) will be back to full power, after something happened Monday. It could have been a lightning strike at 5:50 a.m. that fried some key pieces of equipment (read more - Tim Cuprisin - Milwaukee JS) The former controller of Emmis Communications, Sylvia York, 40, faces sentencing in October after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $70,000 from the company (read more - Forbes) ARBitron numbers for Albany, Greensboro - Winston-Salem, Greenville-New Bern, Memphis, Raleigh-Durham and Syracuse (read the numbers) Tickets
are selling faster'n Quick Draw McGraw for the Sunday
afternoon October 26
In November of 2004 Arbitron and comScore Media Metrix debuted a new service designed to provide traditional broadcast ratings for the online radio industry. America Online’s AOL Radio Network, Yahoo!’s LAUNCHcast and Microsoft’s MSN Radio and Windowsmedia.com signed on as charter subscribers for the new service. comScore Arbitron uses a sizable sample size of 200,000 U.S. participants “within the comScore global comsumer panel (read more - Mel Phillips) Time Warner second quarter net income dropped 26% (read more - Crain's NY Biz) Motorola has introduced its ROKR EM28, a sleek slider with a built-in MP3 player and FM radio. No AM radio. A dedicated music key and music controls play, pause, forward and rewind songs. An integrated RDS radio displays available FM station information like song, artist and genre (read more - MobilEedia.com)
All Comedy Radio "News
Burps" There's opportunity for radio, because here's a location where it was once impossible to tune in a favorite station or show. But as more airlines install WiFi on their planes, listening to the radio while flying could be essentially no different than tuning in while driving a car during the morning commute. WiFi in the skies means another application where a clean, high-quality, well-promoted stream can start paying dividends. And it's another reason why stations need to continue to think of themselves as entertainment/information content providers, regardless of the distribution outlet (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) USA Today columnist Christine Brennan will once again serve as FOX Sports Radio’s Olympic Games correspondent A group of local investors has bought Archway Broadcasting Group's four Columbus stations: rock station WCGQ-FM 107.3, country station WKCN-FM 99.3, oldies station WRLD-FM 95.3 and WRCG-AM 1420 (read more - Brad Barnes - Ledger-Review) Douglas Johnston, formerly VP Client Development Group at Univision Communications Inc., has been named Vice President of Sales, Central Region for Premiere Radio Networks Envision Radio Networks has debuted the USA TODAY - Don’t Quote Me - Quote of the Day, a new daily 60 second vignette that brings the popular board game to radio The service
(Katz Radio)
will also allow for in-stream audio spots, pre-roll audio and video,
synchronized banners and display and video ads.
Radio groups on board for the launch
include Clear Channel, Cumulus, Cox, Emmis, Entercom, Greater Media,
Journal, Nassau, Salem, Saga and Bonneville. Also Air America, and
AccuRadio Internet-only streams.
Katz is looking for five million
listeners per week. Lawyers defending a man accused of murdering a police officer want potential jurors to describe their views on the city's crime problem, their racial prejudices and whether they regularly listen to conservative radio talk show hosts Howie Carr and Rush Limbaugh (read more - Kathryn Marchocki - Union Leader) From Jimmy Rabbitt
-- This week in Rock 'n Roll
Radio History, Columbia Records signed "The Bad Boys From Boston"
Aerosmith this week in 1972 for $125,000.
They then
How to create an "Accidental" radio brand (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) KTRH did the right thing yesterday when our pal Edouardo came to town. They covered it like a champ. The talk shows moved to KPRC. Baseball headed to their sports station (read more - Alan Furst) The Tom Kent Radio Network has added new affiliates for it’s daily and weekend lineup with Classic Hits CBS KLTH Portland, Oregon and Classic Hits NextMedia WWYW Crystal Lake/Chicago both adding all 7 days, and Adult Hits Entercom WNTR Indianapolis adding weekends XM Radio has scheduled what it calls a celebration of the 1960s-era terrestrial behemoth, "one of the most successful and influential radio stations of the period," according to a news release. Check XM's '60s channel between 4 and 9 p.m. Friday to hear a slice of the WROV that was, with the Beatles, the Supremes and more (read more - Roanoke Times) We housed a massive archive of interviews, concerts, airchecks, and special programming. They included the complete collection of Coffee Break Concerts, live remote Instant Radio Spectaculars, WMMS IDs cut by visiting rock stars and celebrities. Regrettably, most of the material ended up lost or destroyed. It’s not all bad news though. In addition to what we’ve been able to reconstruct from those archives thanks to our listeners, master copies of nearly all WMMS Nights Out at the Agora are now accessible for listening at the Western Reserve Historical Society at University Circle in Cleveland (read more - John Gorman) 92.3 K-Rock will put 40 of rock’s biggest songs head-to-head and let listeners determine the “ultimate K-Rock anthem,” during its first “Summer Slam” event this month. Rock music fans can go to www.923krock.com and make their predictions for 39 match-ups between songs from five decades of rock Terry Mackin, president of US Hispanic network Univision Communications' Television Group, has left his post after only five months on the job (read more - C21 Media) Beasley’s Eastern North Carolina cluster's Urban AC Kiss 101.9 WIKS-FM is the new home of DJ Supreme, 6:00-10:00 p.m., Monday through Friday For the first time, Emmis Interactive is opening up its catalogue of custom products, tools and games to radio broadcasters and other local media companies to purchase a la carte Dial Global Programming and Broadcast Architecture now have a cooperative initiative to move Dial Global’s smooth jazz programming into BA’s Smooth Jazz Network, which will impact Dial Global’s 17 smooth jazz affiliates Alongside the likes of BMW and Jaguar, Mercedes is now offering HD Radio technology, solidifying the upgraded audio entertainment as an industry standard across the luxury automotive market. Mercedes-Benz USA has announced that they will feature HD Radio technology in several 2009 model year vehicles (More RDN CENTRAL ARCHIVES - Click here)
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Hall of Fame
Induction Celebration and
Texas Radio Reunion.
Where will you be?
Got your tickets?
Do it today while you're thinking about it!
Discount tickets
are selling fast!
$25
for individuals
and
$275 for a table for 10
(visit 
Program
Director at
Channel “Build the Dream”
Radiothon on Thursday,
August 28th. They will be
featured on select Clear Channel Radio stations sharing their
thoughts on the importance of Dr. King
greats
of the 50’s and 60’s: America’s Finest Radio Generation.
Gary Allyn, Neil Ross, Mel Hall and I
recall some of those talents, and how they interacted, a nearly lost
art
president of English programming for BMP (KTSA's parent company),
wrote in a Friday e-mail.
Koch concurred he would be back on the air Monday and would continue
"until they find a replacement or I find another job"
"Coast
haole" who arrived here along with statehood--50 years ago-- next
year. Neil slid right in.
Our rap today ranged all over the place, given our mutual proclivity
to converse with the abandon of bungee jumpers cursed with blind
faith. Will we always land with our head in one piece and a coherent
thought to show for the trip?
New
Orleans; WHK,
Cleveland; KLIF,
Dallas; KAYO,
Seattle, CKGM,
Montreal and CHUM,
Toronto. In 1961 WDGY’s
(known by its nickname Weegee) Top 40 format was competing with pop
powerhouse KDWB,
who had dominated the Minnesota airwaves. While KDWB featured live
jocks, WDGY
was 100-percent automated
name them next month
far
my friendly keyboard writes that I am booked for:
(1) A salute to Tom Merriman (2) The NAB Radio Show (3) The Georgia
Radio Hall of Fame
(4) The Texas Radio Hall of
Fame 
Richardson will be inducted in the
splash. The 78-year-old Weber talks about it all in
a well-illustrated new memoir called “Clark Weber’s Rock and Roll
Radio.” His subtitle, “The Fun Years,” means 1955 to 1975 -
"People say 'Television killed
radio.' No, radio killed radio.
The program directors who
turned off the talent, turned off the personalities, and that, in
turn, turned off the listeners,"
he said 
they'd been tuning in to
going to be the most successful company in radio,"
Karmazin said in an interview with The Post
radios
Texas.
Other personalties in this year's class include
John Hicks
from KLVI
in Beaumont and Bob Cole
from KVET
in Austin. Also on the list, the late
J.P. Richardson
from KTRM in Beaumont. Rock oldies fans know Richardson better as
the Big Bopper, who had a Top
10 hit, Chantilly Lace,
in 1958. For more information on the hallowed hall, or to buy
tickets to the induction dinner, go to
Garner
helped Country music artists
Kix Brooks and
Ronnie Dunn
of Brooks & Dunn celebrate their star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame