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September 26 will mark Orion Samuelson’s 50th year on WGN, with tributes leading up to that date planned by admirers at the Tribune Co.-owned station and the Farm Progress Show, among others. Samuelson started on WGN the same week as the first presidential debate in Chicago between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon in 1960. Three years later, he was on the air as host of “Country Fair” (forerunner of “The Noon Show”) when he delivered WGN’s first bulletin about Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo)
93 KHJ: Inside
Boss Radio - Excerpt # 19: Gary
Mack: Every week
at the jock meetings
Ron Jacobs was
like George Allen exhorting the Rams in the locker room. There was
some picking of nits but always a lot of positives. A two-year contract extension keeps the “Big Dog” Joe Rose weekday mornings on Sports Radio 560 WQAM Bill O’Reilly spent his entire show Monday night talking about Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally. Fox & Friends talked about it. So did Megyn Kelly, and Bret Baier, and Greta Van Susteren. But Sean Hannity didn’t mention it (read more - Steve Krakauer - Mediaite) Want to see what radio’s digital future will look like? Would you like to look into the future to see what radio will become if broadcasters follow the advice of their harshest critics, the critics who say that radio is moving too slowly? Look no further (read more - Richard Harker - Radio InSights) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Sam Querry
is in the
U.S. Open
and he has a Web site for tennis enthusiasts to
Edward Nolan, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Greater Media Inc., has been added to the lineup of experts who will be presenting at the Media Outlook 2011 CPE (continuing professional education) seminar. Organized by Media Financial Management Association (MFM), the half-day event will be held on Wednesday, September 15 at the McGraw Hill Building in Manhattan (read more - MFM) If everyone knows that the future is digital, then why doesn’t everyone know how to create content for the digital future? The latest casualty appears to be Gannett’s USA Today where a decision was made last week to cut the work force by 9% on news of declining ad revenues and circulation. USA Today used to be number one in paid circulation but now News Corp’s The Wall Street Journal has surpassed it with 2.2 million daily reader - Wait a minute (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) "We have to go where the audience is. If people are hitting the iPad like crazy, or the iPhone or other mobile devices, we've got to be there with the content they want, when they want it" (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Not The Same Old Song For Radio -- When The New York Times jumps all over a song it's either different, special or controversial enough to write about. Categorize this one as all of the above. The song is Cee Lo Green's viral hit, soon to be renamed "Forget You." It's being retitled so that radio can play it (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) Monday August 30, 2010 Just one day after he drew a sea of conservative activists to see him speak on the National Mall, Fox News host Glenn Beck appeared on "Fox News Sunday" to discuss the event. Beck said his rally -- at which former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin also spoke -- drew "on the low end 300,000" attendees up to "as many as 650,000." Unofficial estimates of the crowd size have varied wildly. CBS estimated 87,000 attendees based on aerial photographs, while NBC quoted an anonymous park service official who said there were 300,000 in the audience (read more - Matt DeLong - Washington Post) (read more - Glenn Thrush - Politico) (read more - Fox News) An estimated 87,000 people attended a rally organized by talk-radio host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck Saturday in Washington, according to a crowd estimate by AirPhotosLive.com commissioned by CBS News - AirPhotosLive.com gave its estimate a margin of error of 9,000, meaning between 78,000 and 96,000 people attended the rally - Beck said he had heard the crowd was between 300,000 and 500,000, "and if that's coming from the media, God only knows." But The Associated Press said tens of thousands of people participated in the rally - "This really is build it and they will come," added Beck, marveling at the attraction of his message of faith-based patriotism - The speaker list was diverse, including African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans; Jews and Christians; clergymen, military veterans and sports stars, including Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals. The crowd, however, was overwhelmingly white - Looking out upon the carpet of stars-and-stripes-clad people spilling out from around the pool, across nearby fields and up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Beck went for an old chestnut: the Field of Dreams reference. "If you build it, they will come," he said - Some viewers questioned whether or not Beck was wearing body armor under his white shirt - At the request of Beck's team, which lacked the organizational infrastructure or logistical know-how to pull off Saturday's march, Tea Party Patriots agreed to help promote the march among its 500,000 e-mail subscribers and to provide 400 volunteers to staff it, a requirement before the National Park Service would issue a permit (read more - view the aerial photos - CBS News) (read more - James Hohmann - Politico) (read more - Richard Sisk - NY Daily News) (read more - BBC News) (read more - Scott Wong - Politico) (read more - Mitch Potter - Toronto Star) (read more - Michael A. Memoli and Kim Geiger - LA Times) (read more - Daniel Stone - Newsweek) (read more - Chris Good - The Atlantic) (read more - Kate Zernike and Carl Hulse - NY Times) (view the video - NBC News) (read more - Katy Steinmetz - Time) (read more - Kate S. Alexander - Herald-Mail) (read more - Erika Bolstad and James Rosen - Miami Herald) (read more - Huma Khan - ABC News) (read more - Mimi Hall - USA Today) (read more - Bartholomew Sullivan - Memphis Commercial Appeal) (read more - Brad Knickerbocker - Christian Science Monitor) (read more - Amy Gardner, Krissah Thompson and Philip Rucker - Washington Post) (view the C-SPAN video - Media Matters) (read more - Meena Hartenstein - NY Daily News) (read more - Ross Douthat - NY Times) (read more - Seth McLaughlin - Washington Times) (read more - Fox News) (read more - view photos and video - GlennBeck.com) By bursting the National Mall with his loving legions, Beck did more than prove reports of his demise wrong. Indeed, by drawing upward of 100,000 of his fans to the capital, Beck proved that he had outgrown the old categories and become more than simply a “media figure.” As befits his growing use of religious rhetoric and posturing - “Glenn Beck’s Divine Destiny” graced the Kennedy Center last Friday night with religious music and speakers - Beck has moved fully into new territory. He must now be bracketed together with revivalists like Billy Graham and “Sister” Aimee McPherson, not conservative animatrons like Sean Hannity (read more - Alexander Zaitchik - The New Republic) (read more - USA Today) Saturday’s huge rally posted a slight conundrum for TV news: how to cover an event on the National Mall headlined by Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Fox News’ two right-wing megastars? The outcome was fair and balanced - more or less (read more - Natalie Sherman - Boston Herald) At rally, Beck positions himself as new leader for Christian conservatives -- Among those surprised by all of conservative TV host Glenn Beck's recent religious talk - including at Saturday's Washington rally, where Beck said that "America today begins to turn back to God," - is the Rev. Richard Land, a Southern Baptist leader. "I've been stunned," said Land, who directs public policy for the Southern Baptist Convention and who attended the Saturday rally at Beck's invitation. "This guy's on secular radio and television," Land said Saturday, "but his shows sound like you're listening to the Trinity Broadcasting Network, only it's more orthodox and there's no appeal for money -- and today he sounded like Billy Graham" (read more - Dan Gilgoff - CNN) The 22-year-old son of KSL radio host Doug Wright, Eric Wright, was found dead in Washington DC early Saturday morning after a fall from the roof of his apartment building (read more - view the video - KUTV) Let’s face it: There’s never been anything fair about broadcasting. Some guys - no matter how talented or hard working they are - can’t catch a break. Others - no matter how badly or how often they bomb - just keep getting hired again and again. (Insert the personality of your choice here.) Today’s sterling example of the latter is Bill Gamble, a veteran radio programmer and consultant who’s called the shots at six Chicago radio stations in the 30 years I’ve known him. He’s nothing if not a survivor. Gamble’s most recent gig, as program director of CBS Radio country WUSN-FM (99.5) and adult contemporary WCFS-FM (105.9), lasted eight months until he was fired earlier this year. And now he’s back (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) A WHO-AM talk-radio host made erroneous remarks about AIDS and homosexuality during a recent broadcast, station owner Clear Channel Communications said - Jan Mickelson said during a show broadcast from the Iowa State Fair that some AIDS education efforts destigmatize the "stupid behavior" of homosexuality (read more - Jason Clayworth - Des Moines Register) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Veterinarian
Dr. Michelle Gaspar has some
tips from Feline Pine on how to get
KCBQ-AM, the once-monumental San Diego radio station that often dominated Top 40 radio here between 1958 and 1978, was honored with a monument of its own Saturday in Santee - Santee Mayor Randy Voepel was on hand to help unveil the monument at this free public event. He was joined by such former KCBQ star DJs as "Shotgun" Tom Kelly, who will serve as master of ceremonies; Jack Woods (better known as "Charlie" of the radio team Charlie & Harrigan; and Jack Vincent, 92, the station's former engineer and overnight DJ (read more - George Varga - San Diego Union Tribune) From Claude Hall
-- Poor George Willborn, a Chicago-based comedian and radio personality who said he was denied the right to buy a house in Bridgeport because of race, and his wife, Peytyn, Thursday sued the homeowners and real estate agents involved in the deal - Willborn co-hosts the syndicated "Michael Baisden Show" on WSRB-FM (106.3) and formerly worked at WVAZ-FM (102.7) (read more - David Roeder - Chicago Sun-Times) From Tommy Kramer
-- One of the things about my job I love the most is getting to work
with young talents. If you want to know why the public has such a low opinion of Washington these days, consider the insider deal that could affect every American with a cell phone. In a scheme that can truly be described as “backroom,” the music and broadcast industries are asking Congress to mandate that every cell phone double as a radio. Don’t bother asking how this helps cell phone users – it doesn’t. Radio broadcasters and the big record labels drove their businesses into the ground. Now, they are trying to dig out by redesigning your smartphone (read more - Gary Shapiro - Fox News) Black Card Radio is looking for an experienced Affiliate Relations team member to work out of its corporate headquarters in Ontario, California (located nearby Ontario International Airport). Applicants are being asked to send their resume to saville@lakeindustries.com Steve Carver has been named Senior Vice President and Market Manager, CBS Radio Los Angeles Beasley Broadcast Group announced the winners of its annual Company Operating Awards. Each year, at the Company’s annual gathering of General Managers, Beasley recognizes noteworthy achievements, operating success and contributions from individual Beasley employees and radio stations over the preceding twelve months (read more - BBGI) Dickey Publishing has an agreement to acquire the assets of Modern Luxury Media, the country's largest city magazine publisher. Modern Luxury publishes 26 titles in 12 major markets including: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Washington DC and Miami (read more - Cumulus) As former AM power houses like WSB Atlanta start losing their core audience to age they find it increasingly likely to join a growing movement toward simulcasting their AM format on FM. Faced with the alternatives of selling WSB, changing it's news/talk format or simulcasting, Cox radio decided on the latter. WSB had seen listener numbers drop by more than 25% among all (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) I thought of radio employees who have lost their jobs during consolidation over the trumped up excuse that their employers could no longer afford them. And of those poor Cumulus employees who write to me privately even under threat of execution by the Dickey family that they hate their company and can’t wait to leave. Not so at Apple. Employees love to work there perhaps in part because they get a heavy dose of appreciation as an on-the-job benefit. I am not naïve about all of this. I am sure there are unhappy Apple employees out there, but they are harder to find than unhappy radio people (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Many personalities and teams have supposedly been displaced by PPM, despite strong historic performances in the diary. But with meters, the rules have changed and not all shows have made the transition seamlessly. I think about what must have been happening in the movie industry when “talkies” came along and replaced silent films (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Is the Web Dead? I didn’t even know it had a headache (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) The Evolution of the Car Radio (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Ah, yes. The job interview. I’ve been on both sides. As a relative youngster, I had the foresight to see the interview as a two-way audition. Yes, I needed a job, but it couldn’t be just any job anywhere. So I asked questions and looked for loopholes in the answers. One station sounded pretty good on the air and the market was a good one for upward mobility. Its studios were in a house with offices on the first floor and air studios in a back room on the second floor. On-air staff was required to wear shirt and tie at all times. Equipment was marginal, and there was no air conditioning in the studio, which made things miserable in the summer. My take, whether it was correct or not, was that air staff was at the bottom of the priority heap. I passed on the offer (read more - Frank Absher - StLMedia) Friday August 27, 2010 “I didn’t know what to expect,” Teresa Strasser said as she reflected on her new role as Peter Tilden’s co-host on his 5 am to 9 am weekday program on KABC 790 AM. “But, so far, really, he has been genial and welcoming. Being the second banana is a delicious title for me” + A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery near Point Loma in San Diego for Pat Michaels + KBRT 740 AM Christian talk broadcaster Rich Buhler met with Orange County doctors on the next steps in treating his pancreatic cancer (read more - Gary Lycan - Orange County Register) Larry King and Ryan Seacrest have been secretly plotting to relaunch Larry's radio career TMZ has learned (read more - TMZ) The FCC asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its recent decision to toss the government's restrictions on indecent speech on TV and radio broadcasts (read more - Amy Schatz - WSJ) Arbitron numbers for Albuquerque Bakersfield Colorado Springs Huntsville West Palm Beach (read the numbers) Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, supported by a Tea Party cast of thousands, will try to lay claim to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy in a rally Saturday on the National Mall - Beck said on his show, "This is a moment, quite honestly, that I think we reclaim the civil rights movement." Beck, a Tea Party movement favorite, said he initially was clueless that the rally coincides with the MLK anniversary. But he now thinks it was "divine providence" (read more - Amy Gardner - Washington Post) (read more - Richard Sisk - NY Daily News) Beck again attributes 8-28 weather forecast to God (view the video - Media Matters - Fox News) (read more - Peter Grier - Christian Science Monitor) (read more - Philip Elliott - Boston Globe) F.T.C. Drops LimeWire Investigation (read more - Joseph Plambeck - NY Times) Jerry Springer Works His Political TV Magic on Sean Hannity (view the video - Eric Cunningham - Mediaite) KAKS has hired former Razorbacks running back Michael Smith to replace Renee Gork, a reporter who was fired after she wore a Florida Gators hat to a Razorbacks' football news conference (read more - MSNBC) Evan Harrison, the long-time head of Clear Channel Radio’s digital operations, is leaving the company at the end of the year. Harrison had been promoted almost exactly two years ago, when he agreed to a “long-term contract” which may have expired (read more - Joseph Tartakoff - PaidContent) Poor Don Schwenneker. Ever since he arrived from Pittsburgh in 2008, WBBM-Channel 2 hasn’t figured out what in the world to do with the guy (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) Dedication ceremonies for a monument honoring San Diego’s all-time great radio stations and the many air personalities that brought it to life will take place at the former KCBQ AM 1170 studio and transmitter facility in Santee on Saturday, August 28 at 1170 AM (12:10pm). The location where KCBQ once stood, 9416 Mission Gorge Road in Santee, is now occupied by retailers Kohl’s and Lowe’s. (more details - http://bit.ly/9BKsmn) WSB radio personalities talk to kids, raise money to fight cancer (read more - Ty Tagami - Atlanta Journal Constitution) Tribune creditors are considering Michael Eisner as a possible candidate to replace Chairman Sam Zell at the media conglomerate after it emerges from bankruptcy, sources say - Under one scenario being discussed by the senior creditors, Eisner, 68, would be joined by Jeff Shell, a former News Corp. cable executive who is now in top management at Comcast Corp., according to four people with knowledge of the talks. Shell would become chief executive of Tribune, replacing Randy Michaels (read more - Dawn C. Chmielewski, Michael Oneal and Sallie Hofmeister - LA Times) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Dayana Yochim
of the Motley Fool
has some insights on how college students
Don't Look To This FCC To Be Proactive -- Rather than crafting new indecency rules, this FCC administration led by Julius Genachowski has decided to ask a U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider last month's ruling to table the government's restrictions on indecent speech on TV and radio broadcasts (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) Increasingly, advertisers are going on their own to use the Internet as an alternative to traditional media. Radio could be and should be doing these promotions which sound very much like radio promotions from another day. Radio got lost in its own robo world when it relied on ticket giveaways and texting contests. It may be time for a rebirth of local radio promotions that may (or may not) reside on the station’s airwaves. There is an audience out there that is worth harnessing and radio people have the talent to find it (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) The Day After FM chips come to Mobile Phones -- What happens to your world if FM radio chips are installed on mobile phones? (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) In these times when even in major markets, programmers are often responsible for more than one station, honest critiques may not be easy to come by. One of the best things a personality can do is hold up the mirror and critique her own work. Grab an aircheck from a week or two ago (so the show isn't fresh in your mind), go home, listen, and take honest notes. Or jump in a car, get stuck in some traffic, and “tune in” to experience what it’s like for a station listener (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Former Cowboys’ star Drew Pearson will join 103.3 ESPN to co-host 103.3 ESPN’s Cowboys post-game show with RJ Choppy and former Cowboys scout Bryan Broaddus, and will be a weekly guest on the Ben and Skin Show and Galloway and Company There I was on Thursday morning checking one of the web sites I go to in order to check the sports news "headlines". Once again, that's not entirely what I saw. As it seems I point out here every week, it's time that Sports Directors and editors make sure that "news" really is news (read more - Dave Kohl) Dave Graveline and the Into Tomorrow team this weekend features interviews with Paul Scandariato, VP of Marketing - Apparent (Doxie Scanner); David Owens, VP of Marketing - Sprint; Brian Maffitt, Founder & Chief Creative Officer - Total Training -- On air, online and on satellite radio John Kessler, the popular morning news anchor at CBS5 KPIX, is leaving the SF CBS 'o and o' when his contract expires in mid-October (read more - Rich Lieberman Report 415 Media) Thursday August 26, 2010 Howard Stern explained to a Sirius XM caller recently why he dismisses Talkers magazine's recent "all-time top radio talkers" list that puts him at No. 2, behind Rush Limbaugh. First, Stern questioned Talkers' description of Limbaugh as an "innovator." "There was no Rush Limbaugh till I came along," said Stern. "He failed on radio for years till he heard what I did" (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) If the brass at two local radio companies happened to be tuned into 100.7/Jack FM on Monday morning, they'd have had their breakfasts interrupted by one heck of a surprise. Dave Rickards, formerly of KGB's "Dave, Shelly & Chainsaw" and now co-host of 100.7's "DSC Show," accused the morning shows at two other stations of stealing DSC's material (read more - Randy Dotinga - North County Times) The San Diego wsRadio Open House is today, Thursday, August 26th, from 4-8 PM. RSVP at wsRadio.com/OpenHouse MSNBC talk show screamer Ed Schultz had a meltdown in the network's 30 Rock newsroom, shouting at staff, "I'm going to torch this [bleep]ing place." The hot-tempered anchor of "The Ed Show" lost it during a phone call in the packed studio and slammed down the phone before exploding (read more - NY Post Page Six) In the past two years, financial adviser Eric Tyson has been hearing from more and more people who begin their question with "Glenn Beck said . . ." So Tyson, the author of "Personal Finance for Dummies" and "Investing for Dummies," started looking at the financial advice Beck was proffering beyond the advertisements. He even landed the near-impossible for anyone outside the conservative media circuit: an interview with Beck. Beck's investing score, says Tyson: 0 for 3 - "People get into trouble when they start taking advice from people who don't know what they're talking about," Tyson warns. "You've got to separate politics from personal investing and finances" (read more - Karen Aho - MSN Money) Major Garrett, the chief White House correspondent for Fox News, is quitting his job at the cable news channel after eight years. He is joining National Journal as a Congressional correspondent (read more - Brian Stelter and Jeremy W. Peters - NY Times) WTKK-FM radio host Lawrence “Huggy” Bergman spends his Saturdays yucking about politics and other news events on the air, but here’s something his Hub listeners might not know (read more - Jessica Heslam - Boston Herald) Radio is quite serious about its push to mandate FM radio receivers in all US cell phones. The idea, which could turn out to be part of a complex deal with the music industry on "performance rights" (paying artists to play their music on the radio), sounded tentative at first - both sides stressed to us that no deal had been reached, that these were only talks so far. But when the National Association of Broadcasters takes the time to pen a 1,300-word blog post about the "facts" in favor of mandatory FM radio, it's clear that the idea has moved beyond the "idle speculation" stage (read more - Nate Anderson - Ars Technica) Radio Stations May Compromise on Performer Royalties (read more - Daniel Indiviglio - The Atlantic) Arbitron numbers for Charleston SC Gainesville Jackson (read the numbers) It's been rumored, and now it's here: Google's implemented direct computer-to-phone calling from within its Gmail service. It's a small change, but it makes Google Voice more powerful, and challenges the existing phone industry -- So, starting today "you can call any phone right from Gmail" (read more - Kit Eaton - Fast Company) Sometimes, the talking heads grate on nerves -- For the most part, I agree with political philosophically of the likes of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and even our homegrown Moon Griffon. Yet, I am so tired of hearing over and over again how terrible things are and how they are going to get worse if we don't kick out those rascals in charge. That may be true, but I'm still tired of hearing about it. Despite hitting home runs in the popularity ratings game, these same "commentators" fail to bring home the real vote when the chips are down and counted. I do think of myself as conservative, and yes, I am entertained by all those mentioned above and a few more (read more - The Lafayette LA Daily Advertiser - Op/Ed) Stations are under the gun to claim more real estate on their schedule while keeping costs down. “This is the trend throughout the country,” said Sherrie Brown, KMBC’s news director. “(Viewing) levels are going up everywhere. And morning news is where the growth is happening. We can be more successful at that hour than national news" (read more - Aaron Barnhart - KC Star) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Ellie Kay
with American Express has some tips and advice on how to get
So How Does The NAB Really Feel??? When the NAB decided to answer opponents of installing radio chips in mobile devices, they pulled no punches, going as far as saying mobile carriers may be guilty of "anti-competitive behavior" as they try to block the plan. And they did it in a 1,300 word post about the "facts" in favor of mandatory FM radio (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) Does heavy technology use inhibit deep thought and cause anxiety? Can getting away from being connected – such as camping out in the Grand Canyon – help? There is no doubt in my mind observing young students at USC that depriving them of mobile connectivity causes extreme anxiety. Young people often sleep with their phones, waking up to respond to text messages at times and then returning to sleep even if that sleep is of poor quality (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Will FM be built into every mobile phone near you? Only time will tell. But let’s consider some common questions and answers related to this possibility, all from my perspective (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) How are we going to set it up to engage listeners within 10 seconds for PPM? How can we make it bigger (an expert or guest, production piece, conflict or controversy, a story, a stunt, media coverage, etc.)? (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) ESPN Deportes Radio will launch Monday, August 30 on Beasley Broadcast Group's 1100 AM WWWE as Atlanta’s only Spanish-language sports radio network Wednesday August 25, 2010 The radio industry will see its over-the-air revenues in 2010 climb 4.4 percent over last year to $13.93 billion, with another $459.3 million in revenues coming from digital and online sources, according to a revised forecast issued today from BIA/Kelsey (read more - BIA/Kelsey) Michael Brown, the Federal Emergency Management Agency leader who quit following widespread criticism of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, is taking his KOA-850 Denver radio show to New Orleans on Wednesday and Thursday (read more - CNN) Arbitron numbers for Grand Rapids Jacksonville Shreveport (read the numbers) Pandora says that listeners now have more ways than ever to kick-off their personalized listening experience on Pandora with a new option to create radio stations by selecting a musical genre (read more - PR Newswire) Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs is on a mission is to make sure that his latest iteration of Apple TV is a hit with consumers. Jobs wants to offer iTunes users the option to rent TV episodes for 99 cents, as opposed to the current option of paying $1.99 and up to buy a single episode (read more - Claire Atkinson - NY Post) In exchange of about US $100 million in payments a year to the music industry, the NAB wants an FM chip mandate. The NAB won't accept a performance rights compromise without the FM chip mandate, officials there said (read more - Grant Gross at IDG News Service - Reuters) Even as he prepares for a Saturday rally that could cement his status as an unparalleled force in conservative politics, Glenn Beck is facing quiet but persistent questions from some on the right about whether he can be a reliable partner for advancing conservative causes - or whether his main cause is advancing Glenn Beck (read more - Kenneth P. Vogel and Giovanni Russonello - Politico) In the months leading up to the 8-28 "Restoring Honor" rally and related events, Glenn Beck has accused the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts of religious discrimination. He has suggested the federal government has tried to limit such protests on the mall, without citing evidence. And he's enlisted an undeniably political figure -- former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin -- as a headliner, while promoting the rally through a constellation of political groups often aligned with Republicans. Still, Beck says, this has nothing to do with politics. "This has everything to do with, 'Who are we?' " he said, over a soundtrack of soft piano in a video promotion of the rally posted on his website. "There is profound change happening in America, and there is a window of opportunity that comes in the lifespan of every republic, every civilization -- a window of opportunity to reach for that brass ring or to miss it. We're not the people that we've allowed ourselves to become." The explanation is typical Beck - high-flying, vague and salted with a dash of doomsday. His nearly nine-month-long promotional campaign has followed the same pattern (read more - Kathleen Hennessey - LA Times) New Political Talk Radio Show "Mad as Hell in America with Adam Klugman" bridges political differences by offering one minute of uninterrupted air time to any caller who is "Mad as Hell" (read more - PR Newswire) Peter Van Sant remembers the career and legacy of veteran CBS News correspondent, Harold Dow, who died at age 62 due to complications related to adult-onset asthma (view the video - CBS News) "The so-called “news” media have spent much of the past two decades demonizing the rhetoric of conservative radio talk show hosts as mean-spirited, divisive or a menace to civil discourse. But these same journalists — who gleefully castigate Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and other conservatives — are silent about the vile and vicious rhetoric that spews from the Left’s leading radio talk show hosts. Since late 2007, the Media Research Center has collected numerous examples of the outrageousness of left-wing radio hosts. And, unlike the Left — which attempted to smear Rush Limbaugh with phony quotes ... " (read "The Real Radio Hatemongers" - Media Research Council) Amidst talk of Cardinals and Rams, hosts on 101.1 ESPN Radio talked about cancer. Suddenly it was sports talk, with a caring touch. The day long radio auction benefited the St. Louis Men's Group Against Cancer bringing in thousands of dollars for cancer research and cancer patients. A $100 donation got callers four loge seats for the Cardinals' September 16 game versus the Padres (read more - Fox 2 TV) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Alexandra Levit
with DeVry
knows where the hottest jobs are and has advice
With apologies to Mark Twain, the reports of radio's death have been greatly exaggerated. As Steve Lohr in his recent New York Times piece points out, "evolution - not extinction - has always been the primary rule of media ecology" (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) Radio almost always wants to stay the course, reluctant to change cast, crew, features, or bits. Hey, “If it ain’t broke.” This stubbornness (fear?) to try new things has to be in some way – subtle or not – part of the reason why consumers might take us for granted (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Do Advertisers think Radio is Irrelevant? (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) “We want to be in as many cars as possible. We’re beginning to embed internet radios in all the places where you traditionally have a broadcast radio. Ultimately, the choice we hope consumers make is they’ll opt for this instead of broadcast.” Readers of this blog will recognize this quote from Pandora CEO Tim Westergren. It’s yet another indication that Pandora is doing everything it can to kick ass and take names in its assault on broadcast radio (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan is a great guy. Good to his people and very smart. And a USC Trojan – what more can you say? But he is dead wrong on the issue of mandatory FM chips in mobile devices (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) From George Johns
-- John Lund claims that about 50% of your audience is interested in
your station's contest and will probably mentally play along if it's
interesting enough even if they don't physically participate + In
the Former Valley News Live television anchor Michelle Turnberg has landed a job with KFGO 790 (read more - Fargo Forum) Border Media Partners' KRIO 104.1 FM has begun a 100% simulcast with KSAH 720 AM in South Texas Tuesday August 24, 2010 California sues TV's 'tax lady' for alleged swindles - In 2006, she agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs that claimed she had misled consumers with TV commercials promising settlements of back-tax problems "for only $20" or "without paying anything to the IRS" (read more - Henry K. Lee - SF Chronicle) The rumors spin ever faster about Apple's iTV device--it'll apparently change everything, including how we communicate with remote family members, and now there's some evidence that Apple is prepping its in-store employees for "something big" (read more - Kit Eaton - Fast Company) Arbitron numbers for Columbia SC Knoxville Richmond (read the numbers) The University of Houston is buying KTRU-FM, a 50,000-watt student radio station owned by Rice University, and will convert it to a full-time classical music service under the new call letters KUHC. KUHF-FM, launched by the University of Houston with student volunteers in 1950, will become an all-news station (read more - Karen Everhart - Current) Some Rice University students were protesting the sale of their school’s radio station on Sunday (read more - KHOU TV) CNN reporter Candy Crowley joined the ranks of Sunday morning news anchors in February when she began hosting CNN's "State of the Union." Crowley does not fit the conventional mold for a Sunday morning cable show host (read more - Ellen McCarthy - Washington Post) WGN lures investigative producer from Fox Chicago (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) The only home-owned country radio station in the Wiregrass has a new sound. It’s an old sound actually, as Weevil 101 Radio now highlights country music “legends” (read more - Michelle Mann - eEnterprise Alabama Ledger) An Open Letter to Dr. Danny Lovett from Tom Hammett: Hey Danny, I don't know how much of a 'done deal' the sale of WDYN is, but I sure would like to see the station continue in its present form and format. My brother nearly had me talked into ordering XM radio last year, but the element I would greatly miss from my listening would be the local personalities and programming (read more - The Chattanoogan) KSL NewsRadio is looking for radio talent who are ready to try something different, ready to do something different, want talk radio to BE something different (read more - Mormon Times) (read more - Deseret News)
93 KHJ: Inside
Boss Radio - Excerpt # 18:
The Ken Levine BOSSBALL REVIEW 1965-1969:
Robert W. Morgan
- Hall of Famer. Best
lead-off hitter in the game. Multi-skilled man who does it all.
Pipes, timing, personality, News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Mitzi Dulan
is a nutrition expert with Bayer who
suggests that you plan your
NAB Responds to FM Chip Criticism and Proves Our Point -- RadioInsights the other day suggested the NAB had done little over the years to bolster consumer support for broadcast radio. We asked what the NAB had done in the past few years to draw attention to the continued relevance and popularity of radio (read more - Richard Harker - Radio InSights) It's Chips Ahoy For Radio Capable Mobile Devices -- Despite mounting opposition to a cell phone mandate that would put FM radios in mobile devices, combo chipsets are flying out the door (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then ) If I am a radio station, I’ve got to do better. Must be live and local. Do not need to stream my station but do need to be in the mobile content business. I expect to have to say this until I have no voice left because broadcasters are sitting right there looking at these assets they bought that provide what consumers are using less and less – 24/7 programming -- If I am a news organization, I’m going to invest heavily in mobile news content (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Women are more social creatures to begin with, which leads to the obvious finding they’re more comfortable on social media sites like Facebook. But men tend to be more gadget conscious, so it’s also no surprise they tend to be smartphone owners (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Susan Bacich, most recently the Director of Marketing for Clear Channel New York (106.7 Lite fm, Q104.3’s New York’s Classic Rock, 103.5 KTU, Power 105.1 and Z100) has joined the nationally syndicated Kidd Kraddick Morning Show as vice president of Marketing Former KPIX-TV anchor Dave "Mac" McElhatton died from stroke related illness in Rancho Mirage (read more - view the video - CBS 5 TV) Chris Tunis, KSL and KALL, who was a seven-time Utah Sportscaster of the Year, had been battling pancreatic cancer for the past two years, has died (read more - Shawn Harrison - Herald-Journal) Will Warren, who helped repair Cincinnati homes over the AM radio waves through his live, pioneering WKRC and WCKY program "Will With A Way," has died (read more - Eric Bradley - Cincy Enquirer) Monday August 23, 2010 Rush Limbaugh made good on his vow to "get out of New York totally," reportedly closing on a $11.75 million sale of his 10-room Upper East Side condo -- and splitting so fast, he left all his gilded, gaudy furnishings behind (read more - Cathy Burke - NY Post) ESPN commentator Jay Mariotti, who was arrested for allegedly attacking his girlfriend in an early morning brawl Saturday, was once Tiger Woods' biggest defender when it was rumored that the golfer had been abusive to his wife Elin (read more - Radar Online) (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) John Biewen
is the editor (with Alexa
Dilworth) of the book
"Reality Radio: Telling True
Stories in Sound"
(University of North Carolina Press) - "Reality Radio" - available
at
www.realityradiobook.org - should not be confused with reality
television, which now seesaws between unreal and surreal. Today's
radio documentarians and audio collage artists, Biewen said, "are
telling true stories, artfully"
+
Ron Barr,
longtime host of "Sports Byline USA," the widely syndicated
interview show (7 to 10 p.m. locally on
KTRB-AM), is off to the Middle
East again
(read more - Ben Fong-Torres - SF Chronicle) Kevin Manno is leaving Emmis Communications' WKQX-FM for a live New York-based MTV show set to debut next month (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) The move from NBC to TBS isn't entirely smooth for Conan O'Brien. Even though he made sure his writers were well taken care of last January when he ceded the "Tonight" show to Jay Leno, they're grumbling now that they're going to take a pay cut to work on his TBS show, launching November 8 (read more - Page Six - NY Post) Two music industry pillars, the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Association of Broadcasters, have teamed up in hopes of convincing Congress to mandate that all portable electronic devices, from iPods to cell phones to PDAs, have FM radio receivers built into them, Ars Technica reports. The proposal - which the Consumer Electronics Association, the group representing the companies that would eventually be forced to add FM to their devices, strongly opposes - could come before lawmakers before the end of the year (read more - Daniel Kreps - Rolling Stone) (read more - Nate Anderson - Ars Technica) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
World traveler and video journalist
Lisa Ling
has details about a photo contest
Cheating "Bozo the Clown" was BS artist claims ex-wife (read more - NY Post) The duty of broadcasters, Cleburne businessman George Marti - inventor of the "Marti Unit" - said he believes, is to help others. "If you are not helping people, you are not doing your job," Marti said. It's a sentiment Marti employed not only during his broadcasting career but also during his days in the Marine Corps, as mayor of Cleburne and in his present work with the Marti Foundation - John Barger, past president of TAB and a San Antonio radio station owner, said Marti's shadow looms large over the industry. "Texas broadcasters will always be indebted to George Marti for his ingenuity and his generosity," Barger said. "His inventions revolutionized our industry, and he made the devices affordable for even small town radio operators" (read more - TMCnet/Cleburne Times-Review) Jason Whitlock Slams K.C. Star Editor Mike Fannin, Gets Kicked Off The Air -- The WhitlockFest on 610 Sports Radio did not disappoint. As expected, Whitlock aired out his grievances with previous employers ESPN and the Kansas City Star -- but especially the Kansas City Star (read more - Glenn Davis - Sports Grid) WDEF's Luther Masingill unveiled the signs proclaiming a portion of South Broad Street "Luther Masingill Parkway" - Luther's radio career began on December 31, 1940 at WDEF Radio in the Volunteer Building. He has the longest-running daily show in the world (read more - David Carroll - WRCB TV Chattanooga) From Claude Hall
-- Payola! Of a sort. To wit, a pound of New Orleans coffee with
chicory and a box of beignet mix from the Café du Monde. Do I need
say more? Also, two CDs with explanations and a letter. From
Bob Robin.
One CD featured some WTIX promos. One promo was voiced by Ed Ripley
who, according to Robin, Going in to Tuesday’s (Aug. 24) primary election I thought it would be a good time to check up on who Tucsonans are listening to these days for politics - at least on radio. Using data from Arbitron’s most recent local ratings (taken April 1-June 23), I’ve ranked the shows on talk format stations by their average audience size during the hours they’re on the air (read more - David Hatfield - Inside Tucson Business) From Tommy Kramer
-- Here’s the radio version of the Human Growth Hormone that builds
athletes up—except Reginald "Reggie" McDaniel, 60, a longtime radio and television host - KOA, KUSA, 9News and STARZ - in Denver, who had been ill for some time, passed away on Friday (read more - Denver Post) Police said Johnny Marsh, the nighttime radio personality on State College radio station All-Hit B94.5, sold $20 of marijuana - about 1 gram - to a confidential informant (read more - Centre PA Daily Times) Twenty years ago Oliver North started the Freedom Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping former service members and their families. Although Hannity headlines and emcees the Freedom concerts, they benefit the organization North established - But Hannity is clearly the lead attraction (read more - Randy Krehbiel - Tulsa World Staff Writer) Could NAB Botch the FM Chip Any Worse? When’s the last time you heard Gordon Smith say anything good about radio? When’s the last time you saw the NAB out-front promoting radio, countering the endless parade of moronic musings about the death of radio? (read more - Richard Harker - Radio InSights) Radio ended the first half of 2010 with an impressive overall revenue gain of 6%, powered by back-to-back quarters posting increases at that same level. As noted in RAB’s Q1 report, this performance represents the best in nearly a decade (since Q3 2000, +8%) (read more - RAB) Arbitron numbers for Albany-Schenectady Birmingham (read the numbers) The troubled progress of the Tribune Company bankruptcy suffered another blow on Friday as a lawyer for the publishing giant said that negotiations with creditors had broken down - “This process is moving more slowly and has become noisier than we had hoped,” Randy Michaels, Tribune’s chief executive, and Gerald A. Spector, the company’s chief operating officer, said in an e-mail to employees on Friday that sought to reassure them of the company’s stability (read more - Jeremy W. Peters - NY Times) A flawed political process resulted in a panel of judges setting punitively high rates that would have put many Webcasters out of business, and even the more reasonable rates negotiated last year are substantially higher than those that the XM Sirius satellite-radio firm owes, and infinitely higher than those that AM and FM stations pay. That's because in the United States--unlike in most other countries--radio stations don't pay "performance royalties" to musicians at all (read more - Rob Pegoraro - Washington Post) Jacqui Rossinsky has joined Media Management Group as Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales Christopher Paczkowski joins Broadcast Affiliate Sales Struggling radio network operator Westwood One Inc. said that its net loss shrank in the second quarter as restructuring and special charges fell while revenue was roughly flat (read more - BusinessWeek) Radio Gets A Good Report Card But Shouldn't Party Yet -- The radio revenue figures released by the Radio Advertising Bureau at the end of the week were impressive and encouraging but radio is not the only industry to experience a bounce (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) Over the years I’ve criticized the likes of Suleman, Lew Dickey (Cumulus), Clear Channel (Mays, Hogan et al.) and the other fat cats for not really caring about radio. There is an underlying group of pretenders such as Radio One And Done who can’t run a company either but these folks aren’t as shrewd as the big dogs apparently. Radio One is frantically looking to refinance the debt it couldn’t afford and other consolidators who have not already gone bankrupt have no choice but to throw themselves on the mercy of, well -- the bankers without whose permission this could not have happened. This is not going down well with the rank and file. One said, “the inmates are running the asylum” (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Radio’s Online Content Crisis -- “You’ve joined the conversation, now what?” (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) What “Content” should you have Online? (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) In radio, we often assume that listeners know how to use us. Of course, a standard radio is the easiest-to-use, most familiar device around – with fewer buttons and settings than a toaster oven. But as radio has expanded to other platforms, we tend to take for granted that consumers “get” how to access us and when and where they can listen (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Remember how stressful it was putting together your resume for a job search? Listening to the radio or watching television now, you wonder if management knows anything about the people they hire. I once served as PD for a small market station in Central Illinois, and we needed a jock. The ad I ran in Broadcasting magazine was right to the point: “Small market, low pay, long hours.” We got 75 resumes. The first thing I did was weed out – we disregarded anyone who didn’t have a degree from a 4-year college or university (read more - Frank Absher - StLMedia) Friday August 20, 2010 Radio broadcaster Stacey Cohen wrote an open letter to Schlessinger at LARadio.com. She said, in part, "I can't make you stay and maybe you are just tired of hearing people's problems and are ready for a new chapter in your life, but this is a bad exit–- not good timing for the rest of us girls. As a leader, do the right thing and sit through this storm, it will pass. They will all come back because you have a strong base and you are an excellent talent...Do you want this to be the last thing the radio industry says about you? Yeah she left because she said the n-word on the air. ... Buck up. Don't leave, leave when you are leaving with your head high and not being pushed. Now go on and do the right thing!" (read more - Gary Lycan - Orange County Register) National Association of Black Journalists' Calls for Forum on 'Talk Show Hate' -- Group Says Dr. Laura And Media Companies Must Be Held Accountable - " ... there are deeper issues that must be addressed by the company that syndicates her show – Premiere Radio Networks (read more - PR Newswire) Dr. Laura in denial: The 1st Amendment is just fine: Schlessinger exercised her right to use a racial slur; offended listeners exercised their right to criticize her for it -- Schlessinger isn't quitting because she can't say what's on her mind; she just couldn't take the heat after she did it. To paraphrase her advice to the caller whose questions launched her racial tirade, she should just stop being so sensitive (read more - LA Times Editorial) In the wake of her recent announcement that she'd be leaving radio at the end of the year, Laura Schlessinger spent some time during her Thursday "The Dr. Laura Program" broadcast reading and responding to recent messages from fans -- Nita Hanson, the caller involved (she used the name Jade in the Aug. 10 incident), told CNN on Thursday she believed Dr. Laura "apologized because she got caught" (read more - Christie D'Zurilla - LA Times) Sarah Palin wrote in a post on Twitter that Schlessinger's First Amendment rights "ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence" her. Such activism "isn't American, not fair," she added. Later she added, "Dr.Laura=even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstructionists" (read more - Rachel Weiner - Washington Post) (read more - Aliyah Shahid - NY Daily News) After 13 years of outstanding work at the Chicago Tribune, Maureen Ryan says she decided to call it quits as TV critic when “it just seemed that the Tribune’s priorities and mine were heading in different directions.” So different, in fact, that she doubts they’ll fill the position now that she’s left (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) The National Park Service said Thursday that it has approved the permit for the Aug. 28 Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin rally at the Lincoln Memorial (read more - Michael Ruane - Washington Post)
93 KHJ: Inside
Boss Radio - Excerpt # 17: Ron
Jacobs:
"The
Real Don Steele
was the master of what he did. No one in the history of Top 40 radio
ever sounded like or will ever sound like Steele. He boogied on the
airwaves while his Arbitron numbers for Fresno Memphis Tucson (read the numbers) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Juan Calle
has great news for folks who can't purchase a ".com" domain
Weighing In On Dr. Laura -- We all have our own opinion about Dr. Laura Schlessinger's liberal use of the "n" word and her subsequent exit from radio but what do other people think? (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) Radio should be careful for what it wishes for. As excitement builds over the possibility that mobile phone makers will be required to add FM to their phones, it’s a good time to reflect on what an FM chip means (read more - Richard Harker - Radio InSights) Family fiefdoms are not new to radio, but when a few relatives get investment bank financing anything is possible. Except winning the cooperation of your management and sales staff when you so badly need it (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) “When’s the last time an alternative station has been number one anywhere?” (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) KFAB Omaha's Andy Greenberg MC's the "Nebraska's Got Talent" event this weekend Dave Graveline and the Into Tomorrow team this weekend feature This Week In Tech History (TWITH) with Chris Graveline; Into Tomorrow Product Spotlight with Rob Almanza and Into Gaming Update with Mark Lautenschlager -- On air, online and on satellite radio Thursday August 19, 2010 Dr. Laura said she'd been considering ending her three-decade radio career for the last year, and the furor over racially insensitive remarks she made on-air last week was merely the tap on the shoulder she needed to leave (read more - Steve Carney - LA Times) Arbitron numbers for Omaha - Council Bluffs New Orleans (read the numbers) Despite a rise in advertising sales that increased revenue in the second quarter, Radio One Inc. is still struggling to refinance debt due to expenses that have dragged earnings sharply lower (read more - EurWeb) The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame announced their 20-member class of 2010 - The induction event will be held on Saturday September 25 at the Doubletree Hotel and Executive Meeting Center on the Berkeley Marina (read more - KCBS 740 Radio) (read the full list of inductees - Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame) Hog Sports Radio Says Reporter Wasn't Fired for Wearing Florida Gators Cap to Hog Conference (read more - Robert Boyd - Sun-Sentinel News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Denise Durrett
of the
EPA's Energy Star Program
has a couple of tips on how to
The United Stations Network has begun marketing The Lex and Terry Morning Show to both radio affiliates and national advertisers Morning Shows need to be focused on the audience and the Country life group, riding the roller coaster of emotion, laughter, serious and comedic. Real people talking about real things. Squeaking by talking about Taylor Swift on Redbook and Martina McBride's Sunny D commercials break after break is inside and music industry related. Real people/listeners don't care. Country music listeners are not Country industry followers. Entertain, inform and communicate. No more needless and useless talk. Focus on brevity (read more - Chuck Geiger - Full Throttle Country) Mobile Is Passing Internet In Popularity -- The newly formed alliance between the music industry and radio seeking FM radio chips in mobile devices is not only timely, it could save the medium (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) Sooner rather than later, terrestrial radio stations will be paying what I call the NAB Tax – that special new fee for being allowed to help record labels expose their music for free while they make all the money. We can cry about it if we want, but a royalty tax is coming to a radio station near you thanks to NAB (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) The Media Financial Management Association (MFM) has released the list of those on the lineup of experts who will be presenting at the Media Outlook 2011 CPE (continuing professional education) seminar on Wednesday, September 15 at the McGraw Hill Building in Manhattan, beginning at 11:45 AM (read more - MFM) Much is being made of the Ben Fong-Torres "expose" of a real PPM respondent and her experience carrying the meter, recently printed in the San Francisco Chronicle. I know there are some observers - and Arbitron critics - who view the story as proof of more PPM flaws. I have read the article several times - and would invite you to do the same (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) A couple weeks ago
Ben Fong-Torres profiled a
real, live, in-the-flesh PPM panelist. And he discovered pretty much
what any sentient being in radio (no jokes, please) already knew:
PPM does not perfectly collect
all listening in all situations
(read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Wednesday August 18, 2010 Dr. Laura said on the Larry King Show Tuesday that she will end her radio career at the end of the year - "The reason is, I want to regain my First Amendment rights. I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special-interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that" - Ed Krampf, CBS vice-president and market manager for CBS radio stations in Los Angeles, including KFWB, said, “Laura’s people gave me a heads up earlier in the day" -- She emphasized that she is not retiring - "I will be stronger and freer to say my mind through my books, my YouTube Channel, my blog and my website" (read more - view the video - CNN) (read more - Paul Farhi - Washington Post) (read more - Anahad O'Connor - NY Times) (read more - view the video - Lee Margulies - LA Times) (read more - Leo Standora - NY Daily News) (read more - view the video - ABC News) (read more - Rodney Ho - Atlanta JC) (read more - Gary Lycan - Orange County Register) Glenn Beck has a message for the chronically unemployed: You're a bunch of un-American losers. The Fox News host thinks some 99ers -- those who have used up their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits -- should be embarrassed to call themselves Americans - "Go out and get a job," said Beck. "You may not want the job. Work at McDonald's. Work two jobs. There has been plenty of times in my life I've done jobs I hated, but I had no choice. Two years is plenty of time to have lived off your neighbor's wallet" (read more - Aliyah Shahid - NY Daily News) The 56 year old white supremacist convicted of civil rights violations in the 1984 machine-gun slaying of Denver radio show talk host Alan Berg has died in federal prison (read more - Deb Stanley - KMGH TV 7 Denver) Arbitron numbers for Buffalo - Niagara Falls Monterey - Salinas0(read the numbers) Mike North lands with Fox Sports Radio (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) "Wait, Wait -- Don't Tell Me" radio show host Peter Sagal has returned home after being injured in a bicycle accident in the western suburbs (read more - CBS 2 TV Chicago) Radio One reported its results for the quarter ended June 30 (read more - City Biz List DC) At the recent TAB awards gala, Texan George Marti received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Association of Broadcasters; Pioneer of the Year was William J. “Bill” Carter; Broadcaster of the Year: Ben Downs, Bryan Broadcasting; Associate of the Year: Dirk Johnston, NBC-Universal Television Distribution and Educator of the Year: Dr. Ed. Glick, Univ. of North Texas (read more - TAB) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Cat Schwartz
has some great electronic gadgets info for kids - and adults - to
National Radio Sales Continue To Grow -- Despite some dire predictions of another recession lurking, there's no proof of that with recently reported national sales figures (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) It strikes me as somewhat ironic that the radio industry fought Arbitron’s portable People Meter unmercifully for many years dragging out its implementation. After all, PPM delivers more radio listeners even if they really aren't listening. That is, PPM delivers more radio listeners to some formats which is why many radio groups are racing to dump what's left of format variety for same-old-same-old formats that could play well with an increasingly defective ratings methodology. And now, guess what -- radio groups really like PPM (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) I’ve heard some tough schoolyard taunts in my day, but the assertion that radio (along with the music business) is a “buggy-whip industry” by none other than the head of the Consumer Electronics Association, Gary Shapiro, is painful (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) There is no excuse for the decision of Detroit Tigers' TV not to have shown the dugout confrontation which occured during this past Sunday's (8/15) game in Chicago (read more - Dave Kohl) Tuesday August 17, 2010 Radio Broadcasters and RIAA Want To Make FM Chips in Cell Phones Required By Law (read more - Kyle VanHemert - Gizmodo) The broadcast audience is aging faster than the population (read more - Chattanooga Times Free Times) Arbitron numbers for Akron Hartford (read the numbers) Chicago-based Tribune Co. said Monday it is establishing a Texas subsidiary that will consolidate the media conglomerate's back-office operations such as financial responsibilities and systems administration. The company said it anticipates the move, anticipated in recent weeks as job openings were posted on various employment Web sites, "will save Tribune tens of millions annually" (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) In a bid to attract a younger audience, Cox radio has decided to simulcast its news/talk station 750 WSB-AM at 95.5 on the FM dial starting at noon today. As a result, hip-hop station 95.5 The Beat is losing its home after 11 years (read more - Rodney Ho - Atlanta JC) Renee Gork, a radio host with Hog Sports Radio was apparently fired Monday after she wore a Florida Gators hat at an Arkansas news conference over the weekend (read more - Brandon Marcello - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
93 KHJ: Inside
Boss Radio - Excerpt # 16:
Ken Levine:
I asked Bill Mouzis if he knew the origin of
‘Tina Delgado is
alive.’ He
reacted like I was asking for the secret formula of Coca-Cola, which
if he did know, he would have to kill LA radio personality Dan Avey the presenter and newscaster who worked for over 30 years in the Los Angeles area and received more than 30 major journalism awards has lost his battle with cancer (read more - Contact Music) A Miami-Dade jury has awarded former WSVN-Fox 7 healthcare reporter Marilyn Mitzel nearly $1 million in compensation after finding the news station fired Mitzel because management thought she was too old to be on camera (read more - Kelly House - Miami Herald) News Burps
From aMinuteMore.com -- Topic:
Dr. Pamela Lowe,
optometrist, reveals some interesting statistics about
school
New York Festivals International Radio Program & Promotions Awards recently announced the 2010 competition Radio Awards Finalists. This year’s international GrandJury selected 181 entries from 17 countries as Finalists in the first round. Now in its twenty-eighth year of honoring “The World’s Best Radio Programs,” the competition honors the most original and innovative work in radio broadcasting, with entries from radio stations, networks, and independent producers from around the world. Trophy winners will be presented with NYF’s new Art Deco trophy, reminiscent of a classic 1920s Art Deco radio microphone, at the gala awards ceremony to be held on Friday, September 24 at the Manhattan Penthouse located at 5th Avenue at 14th Street. To purchase tickets go to: http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/main.php?p=4,4 From Jimmy Rabbitt
-- Hank Williams was fired from the Grand Ole Opry on August 11,
1952. The story goes, he
Radio and The Music Industry Become Allies - Although they fight tooth and nail over performance royalties, music labels and radio broadcasters have turned from enemies to frenemies when it comes to FM radio chips in smartphones (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) You can understand the angst on the part of radio broadcasters who have driven the sales of music through free radio airplay for many decades. And it is not as if you can expect owners to go down easily because whatever fees they agree to are likely to go up. This can be done by future legislation (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) The Truth about Eroding Radio Listening (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Programmers need to get out of their radio stations on a periodic basis, stay home, and do nothing but listen to their own craftwork for a day (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Talk show host Leslie Marshall will be a weekly contributor to the online version of US News & World Report magazine ESPN and Texas Radio Holdings announced that ESPN Deportes Radio, the only 24/7 national Spanish-language sports radio network in the U.S., launched in Houston on KGOL AM 1180 A recent story in the San Francisco Chronicle recounts the adventures of a PPM panelist as she tried to fulfill her responsibilities: The goal of PPM is to capture all exposure to encoded radio, yet clearly Ms. Sprauve had more opportunities to hear radio than the meter had. Whether the meter was in her purse, left at home, or left on her desk at work, the meter didn’t capture all the radio she heard. How much listening does PPM lose? (read more - Richard Harker - Radio InSights) Monday August 16, 2010 Former Senator Larry Craig will be filling in Monday for Nate Shelman on 670 KBOI but is not expected to take phone calls about his 2007 conviction for disorderly conduct in connection with a sex sting in a men's room at the Minneapolis airport (read more - Alana Brophy - KBOI TV 2 Boise) Dr. Laura Schlessinger has already issued her apology regarding her N-word laced diatribe on air, yet the controversy shows no signs of abetting anytime soon. Already National Urban League has demanded that the radio host be pulled out of the Talk Radio Network and repudiation of her behaviour is still a hot topic on channels, newspapers and internet (Entertainment Biz) TV host Yang Lan is one of China's biggest celebs - She is said to be the Chinese Oprah (read more - April Rabkin - Fast Company) Oprah Winfrey's upstart OWN cable network is facing its first lawsuit (read more - NY Post) When Bruno Cohen took over as president and general manager of WBBM-Channel 2 nearly two years ago, he knew one thing for certain: The revolving door of news anchors had to stop spinning once and for all (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) Country station KTST-FM 101.9 maintained the top spot as Oklahoma City's top-rated radio station for listeners 12 and older in the recently released spring Arbitron ratings. Clear Channel Communications swept the top three spots as contemporary hits KJYO-FM 102.7 and news talk KTOK-AM 1000 finished second and third, respectively (read more - Mel Bracht - The Oklahoman) "It's different when we do it." That seems to be the explanation for the media double standard that makes it acceptable for liberals to say things no conservative pundit could get away with (read more - Kathy Shaidle - WND) Here is a compilation of 10 of the most popular conspiracy theories currently circulating (read more - Alexander Zaitchik - AlterNet) Hal Turner, the ultra-right-wing shock jock who spied on white supremacists for the FBI, was convicted Friday - on the government’s third try - of threatening to murder three Chicago judges last summer (read more - Peter J. Sampson - North Jersey - Bergen Record) (read more - Janon Fisher - NY Post) Liberal radio talker Stephanie Miller came out as gay on her nationally syndicated show Friday morning saying that former country star Chely Wright was her inspiration for coming out (read more - Trudy Ring - The Advocate) (read more - Fox TV Philly) (listen to the audio - StephanieMiller.com) Crowds of anxious fans donning red white and blue lined up to hear Fox News conservative talk show host Sean Hannity along with Micheal W. Smith, Lynyrd Skynyrdand the Charlie Daniels Band at the Freedom Concert (read more - view the video - Melissa DiPane - Fox News 35 Orlando) Sean Hannity brought his Freedom Concert to the Gwinnett Center Friday night. Before the event got underway, Hannity sat down for a one-on-one with FOX News Edge anchor Tom Haynes (read more - view the video - Fox TV Atlanta) A Perrysburg condominium owned by Toledo's WSPD 1370 news radio talk-show host Brian Wilson was foreclosed on earlier this year and is scheduled for sheriff's sale Sept. 16 - Court documents show Wilson and his wife, Carol, owe $197,832 on the property but stopped making their mortgage payments last December - the same month they purchased a $340,000 home in Huddleston, Va (read more - Toledo Blade) Arbitron PPM numbers for Cincinnati Cleveland Kansas City Las Vegas Portland OR Sacramento Salt Lake City San Antonio (read the numbers) News Burps
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says that 30 states have already enacted
bans on texting while
From Claude Hall -- Henry Miller, a better guru than a writer, once said that what a writer needs is to have the cup of adulation filled, even if it be deferred one thousand years. I don’t know if I, personally, am inclined to wait that long. Thus, I appreciated this note from David Alpert: “Claude – I downloaded your novel this weekend (after reading about it on Don Barrett’s website) and couldn’t stop reading. Actually fell asleep with the laptop in bed. Now, I need to resist the temptation to go back to it until I finish working today – just hope I have time tonight! I was a faithful reader of your column in Billboard over the years, then Rolleye’s (a classmate at Univ. of Miami). I got into radio professionally at what I like to think of as the tail end of its heyday, in 1970, and after a good run in Chicago am lucky to still be working, for nearly 28 years now, for ABC News (primarily radio, still, but these days it seems increasingly reporting for TV and the website, too) first in NY, and, for the last 10 years, here in LA. Thanks for writing the book. I love radio, too” (read more - www.ClaudeHallOnline.com) From Tommy Kramer
-- Actors think they can be great directors. Tennis players think
they’ll be great at golf. Disc jockeys who cut a lot of Production
think they’re gonna get hired to do movie trailers in L. A.
tomorrow. Then What can you learn about social media from a beast which is part shark, part octopus? Plenty (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Radio, like everything else, is a case of image versus reality. But like those cooks sweating it out back in the all-too-small kitchen, it’s really a case of the workers in the trenches determining the final quality of the product, and those restaurants I recently visited can count on me returning every year to enjoy a product that was outstanding, in spite of my first impression of the restaurant. Owners and managers who concentrate on the quality of the product will reap the benefits of that decision (read more - Frank Absher - StLMedia) New Report Shows Digital Radio Explosion Is Coming -- Sometime next year, handset manufacturers will implement an HD radio chip in every smartphone. That's what ABI Research senior analyst Sam Rosen predicts in a new report (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) By now you’ve heard that national billing has been carrying radio stations of late and the recession has so hurt Main Street businesses that local radio sales as a category is now uncharacteristically down. That, too. Turns out we’re forgetting one big thing (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Are there more distractions and entertainment options for young people? Without a doubt. But the fact that radio is a viable part of their lives for more than two hours a day – despite iPods, Facebook, Foursquare, Halo, and any number of distractions – is a victory for broadcast radio (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) As a radio copywriter, one of the largest frustrations I’ve had is never knowing how our campaigns do. We get the “great job”, “I love it!” from clients and reps alike but we rarely hear how much interaction it garnered with the listening audience. Did it bring in more customers? Increase sales of the specific product? We never know and are adamantly dissueded by sales departments who don’t want to open the door allowing clients to comment on how uneffective their campaign/buy was (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) On August 17 in Tampa, checks totaling $53,000 from funds raised by the Bubba the Love Sponge Foundation will be presented by syndicated and satellite radio talk personality Bubba the Love Sponge to the widows and families of Tampa Police Department Patrol Officers David Curtis and Jeffrey Kocab, who were killed in the line of duty. Each family will receive a check for $26,500 The company behind the magicJack, the Internet phone gadget heavily advertised on television, has another trick up its sleeve: free phone calls from computers, smart phones and iPads using magicTalk (read more - PhysOrg) Dr. Laura apologized for using the N-word during a rant on Tuesday's program in which she went off on an African-American caller, accusing her of being overly sensitive to racism. "Yesterday, I did the wrong thing," Schlessinger said in comments at the opening of Wednesday's show (read more - E Online) Schlessinger:
- n*****, n*****, n***** is what you hear on HB –
Friday August 13, 2010 Dr. Laura Schlessinger has issued an apology for saying the N-word several times in an on-air conversation with a caller that she said was "hypersensitive" to racism (read more - Fox 40 Sacramento) "It's the first time I've been canned by cell phone," e-mailed award-winning broadcast news journalist Michael Linder on what happened Aug. 6 when he learned he was being dropped by KABC 790 AM (read more - Gary Lycan - Orange County Register) Arbitron PPM numbers for Baltimore Boston Denver Detroit Miami Minneapolis Phoenix Pittsburgh Seattle San Diego St Louis Tampa (read the numbers)
93 KHJ: Inside
Boss Radio - Excerpt # 15:
Chuck Blore:
"After Boss Radio
came on KHJ, I tuned in on The Real Don Steele for the first time
one afternoon. First Morgan, now I was given another ticket to News Burps
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Peter Diamandis and
Brian Silva have details about
the $10
My colleagues gathered at NAB headquarters last week to hear an update on the continuing royalty discussions between radio and recording industry representatives. No vote was taken, and there is no “deal” on the table. But the meeting left me feeling optimistic about possibly removing a Sword of Damocles that has been dangling over radio for years (read more - Peter Smyth - Greater Media) How PPM & Hispanic Population Growth May Soon Change Country Radio Forever (read more - Chuck Geiger - Full Throttle Country) Radio Adjusts Format Clocks For Better PPM Results -- Ever since Arbitron hit radio with their Portable People Meter or PPM measurement, the medium and ad-heads have been trying to figure how to use it effectively (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) Radio’s cume audience – still very healthy and bigger than ever in PPM – has the heft to power the viability of any advertising and marketing campaign. Now that we are building mobile apps for brands outside of radio, it has given us a healthy respect for the value of a large listening audience (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) One of my former USC music industry students, Meredith Jung, sent me a quick note the other night to tell me that a Nashville start-up music label has come out squarely on the side of the radio industry in its fight against paying a music tax. I thought you would appreciate the logic and clear thinking of this entrepreneur and hope that it will get everyone including the over anxious NAB to stand back and take a much needed time out (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media)
From George Johns
-- I understand in the State of Nebraska alone they could grow
enough food to feed the whole world. But I understand for economic
reasons or something the Government pays them not to grow stuff. Dave Graveline and the Into Tomorrow team this weekend discuss their favorite apps on Android, BlackBerry & iPhone/iPad -- On air, online and on satellite radio DFW's programming ace George Gimarc has a new programming project (visit www.247comedy.com) Clear Channel Radio announced the four winners of its “Get Discovered” contest, as part of its three-month national campaign to support the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). The contest gave independent and unsigned music artists an opportunity to submit their music via any Clear Channel Radio station website or iheartradio.com for a chance to perform live at the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, Labor Day weekend, September 5th and 6th - Winners are: Rock/Alternative Winner: Last Perfect Thing - Market: Asbury Park, New Jersey; Hit Winner: Hollywood Burnout - Market: Des Moines, Iowa; Country Winner: Billy Dawson - Market: Nashville, Tennessee; At Large Winner: Beau Davidson - Market: Nashville, Tennessee Black Card Radio's newly signed Hot Mix Mainstream is celebrating its 25th year, the longest running syndicated mix show in radio history Thursday August 12, 2010 Radio Host Faces Fraud Charges Over Debt-Clearing Promises: Dave Burke's Show Taken Off Air, Offices Raided After 10 News Report -- Police in Westminster, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, burst into the corporate offices of Get Real With Dave looking for the man behind the business, Dave Burke - Local Radio Host's Promises To Wipe Out Debt Fall Short - Self-proclaimed financial expert struggles with his own finances (read and view video - July 6 report - 10 News) (read more - view the video - 10 News) ARBitron PPM numbers for Dallas-Fort Worth New York Los Angeles Chicago Atlanta Philadelphia San Francisco San Jose Houston - Galveston Washington DC Riverside-San Bernadino Nassau-Suffolk Middlesex-Somerset (read the numbers) The July Arbitron radio ratings book released Wednesday was good news for WLS-AM (890) and the afternoon drive duo of Roe Conn and co-host Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper - Elsewhere, the news was not so good for the station’s archrival news/talk WGN-AM (720), which fell to 15th place overall in July from eighth place in June in the 25 to 54-year-old demo (read more - Lewis Lazare - Chicago Sun-Times) The decision by several Portland, Maine station owners not to pay for Arbitron ratings information was “a cost-cutting move” due to sharp declines in advertising sales during the recession. Among the companies that didn’t buy into the latest Arbitron is Saga Communications, owner of country WPOR (101.9 FM) and news-talk WGAN (560 AM), which finished second and fifth respectively in the latest survey, according to a copy leaked by a radio insider (read more - Al Diamon - Down East) A Korean station on the AM dial out of Decatur went out of business a couple months ago. Later this month, the new operators of AM 1310 are planning to bring more syndicated talk shows, this time with a progressive bent. That means WPBC-AM will become “The King.” Among the personalities the station plans to bring: Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Bill Press and Leslie Marshall (read more - Rodney Ho - Atlanta JC) An Associated Press-Univision poll finds many U.S. Hispanics who mainly speak English are turning to Spanish-language TV and radio. The main appeal: sports and entertainment, a cultural connection and a nagging feeling among some Latinos that English-language media portray them negatively (read more - Minneapolis Star-Tribune) George Willborn, co-host of the Michael Baisden radio show, says he was denied a chance to buy a house because he's black - Federal officials say the real estate agent told an investigator that the owner would rather not sell to an African American (read more - view the video - WGN TV) Nearly 50 years after Dick Biondi first sang “The Pizza Song” — better known as “On Top of a Pizza” — the hit novelty record has been released on CD for the first time. The song, written as a parody to “On Top of Old Smokey” and recorded by Biondi in 1961, became an instant success, selling more than 11,000 copies and helping establish the skinny young disc jockey on WLS-AM (890) as the undisputed nighttime star of rock ’n’ roll radio in Chicago (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) Dell's smartphone and tablet computer in one will go on sale today, a little more than a week after officials initially scheduled its release for $299.99 with a first-time, two-year AT&T contract and $549.99 without (view Dell Streak video) (read more - Austin Biz Journal) News Burps
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Joe Lupo says
that men should be well-groomed, too, and offers grooming tips
To assist media professionals navigating the regulations affecting political advertising at every stage of the election process, Media Financial Management Association (MFM) member Erwin Krasnow and his partner at Garvey Schubert Barer, John Wells King, have prepared a “Political Advertising Handbook for Radio Executives” and another for “Television Executives.” As a service to the industry, the Handbooks may be downloaded at no charge Veteran sportscaster and entertainment host Pat O’Brien will join FOX Sports Radio’s Loose Cannons program with Steve Hartman and Vic “The Brick” Jacobs beginning Monday, August 16 from 3 - 7 p.m. ET Is Radio Dying, Growing, or What? You’ve seen the comments by new media pundits and radio critics: Radio’s dead - No one listens to radio - Everybody knows that the iPod/Satellite/Internet/iPhone/whatever killed radio - Why would anyone still be listening to radio? And on and on. There’s blood in the water, and anybody who has an agenda, anyone who has something to sell to “solve” radio’s problems thinks now’s the time to take their shot (read more - Richard Harker - Radio InSights) Yearly Trends Show Radio's Condition As Stable -- Radio is in ICU but the condition of the medium is not on life support or even critical, it's stable, according to a year-to-year comparison of different ratings companies. Harker Research came up with the idea of comparing one year trends in PPM markets, Arbitron diary markets and with recent Nielsen numbers (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) It’s too early to tell what kind of image damage JetBlue will suffer but what is remarkable is the traditional and new media response to (Steve) Slater's antics. I’ve had time to mull some fears and concerns I see ahead for the media business because for a moment there I was reacting like a traditional media guy but today I’m thinking – okay, Slater is being hailed as a hero but JetBlue could also come out ahead as well. And, the concern that all of us in a world of social networking – artists, radio stations, streamers -- are just this far away from having to deal with a nutcase that can gather social media support by just – well, creating a Facebook page for starters (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) I think one of the great lost opportunities of the media industry is to marshal the talents that lurk in the shadows. The folks who have never been called on to do more than hang a banner or push some pencils. Not every wallflower is a “black sheep,” to be sure. But the black sheep are there. Listen closely and you can hear them “baa” (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) For all that has changed in broadcast radio over the decades, one thing is still essentially the same: Radio often hires air personalities using the same criteria that made sense in 1978 (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Google will sell ads on 11 DirecTV channels (read more - LA Biz Journal) New books from two of my favorite females; Rollye James and Sharon Sheeley (read more - www.JohnRook.com) Wednesday August 11, 2010 After insisting for some eight decades that artists were fairly compensated for radio play by the promotional value of that airtime, the radio industry may be on the verge of an about-face (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) Belleville, Illinois has been chosen from 100 cities by a syndicated radio host to get a paint job. In an event called "Paint the Town," the radio personality, Delilah Rene, whose show is heard on KEZK St Louis, and The Home Depot are giving local volunteers the supplies needed to give old buildings, mostly in the downtown area, facelifts (read more - Belleville News-Democrat) Chris Ortloff - a former anchorman for WPTZ News Channel Five - who is getting ready to serve 12 years in prison, considers himself healed from the perverse desires he says he discovered in himself through the online world of sexual fantasy - But he admits he needs to continue counseling as he begins a 12.5-year federal prison sentence, handed down Tuesday, for using the Internet to set up a sexual tryst with minors (read more - Andrea VanValkenburg - Albany Press Republican) For the last word on the National Radio Hall of Fame, let us bow to the King of All Media, Howard Stern, who was snubbed for the fourth time last week by the Chicago-based broadcast shrine. Although he consistently urged his fans not to vote for him, Stern blasted the outcome anyway on his Sirius XM show Monday. Saying “everybody else sucks,” he called it “almost ludicrous” that he lost in the national/active category to retired NPR news anchor (and Chicago Public Media luminary) Carl Kasell (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) Johnny Carson quips and video going online (read more - David Itzkoff - NY Times) St. Louis is about to hear a lot more Nelly on the radio. Just not his music. Starting Wednesday, the rapper will join urban radio station Hot 104.1 (WHHL-FM) as the afternoon drive-time host (read more - Kevin C. Johnson - St Louis Post-Dispatch) In just a couple of more weeks, owner Bill Coleman and Team Radio stations 99.3 KLOR and 100.7 KPNC hope to be broadcasting from The Poncan Theatre (read more - Beverly Bryant - Ponca City News) "Caution: Carrying Political Promises" reads the message Robert Cornish put on a septic tank for his North Richland Hills-based Cornish-Burton Septic Service - Cornish said he came up with the slogan after drinking about six beers and listening to conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on the radio (read more - Anna M. Tinsley - Star-Telegram) AM 1040 Knoxville radio personality Lloyd Daugherty is hospitalized in critical condition after friends say he suffered a heart attack (read more - Volunteer TV) KBRT 740 AM Christian talk broadcaster Rich Buhler has been released from an Orange County hospital after having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (read more - Gary Lycan - Orange County Register) News Burps
From
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Wells has details about the
winners of the Fitness
Magazine's healthy food
Last week's report released by Arbitron about the listenership of Major League Baseball on radio for most of the first 3 months of the current season confirms my theory that radio audience preferences are not always consistent with those of TV audiences. Out of 25 markets where PPM's are used for audience measurements (which includes 28 of the MLB teams), it was most interesting to see the Seattle Mariners broadcasts in the Top 10 of total audience (all demographics) (read more - Dave Kohl) Alternative Media Fuels A Healthier Radio Market -- Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a private equity firm projects that in 2010, total spending on broadcast and satellite radio will grow for the first time since 2007. Together, they will enjoy a bump of 3.3% to $17.68 billion (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) “Every company is now a media company” comes from Vice co-founder Shane Smith, speaking about how brands like Intel now have to concern themselves with content creation, demographic appeal, and event production. (By the way, these are skills that most people in radio have been developing for decades) (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) What's Killing the Concert Business -- Concert-goers saying they hear about upcoming concerts from online/social network sites (63%) instead of radio (13%). Softball questions about how easy the ticket buying experience is (33% say easy and convenient, only 25% said a hassle but worth it). No tough questions about Ticketmaster and how much people dislike it. That being said, the concert business is in real trouble (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Tuesday August 10, 2010 CC Media Holdings reported a sharply reduced second-quarter loss from the same period a year ago and from the previous quarter, thanks to higher cash flows from rising advertising revenue (read more - David Hendricks - San Antonio Express-News) Google and Verizon Communications have released a proposal that suggests the U.S. FCC should enforce network neutrality rules and fine broadband providers up to US $2 million for violations (read more - Grant Gross - PC World) Alex Rodriguez and Rush Limbaugh are faring far better than Tom Hicks and Red McCombs these days -- Talk radio on the AM dial has been a savior for some radio stations that could not compete with the FM dial and then satellite radio. But most of AM talk radio is inane conversation featuring babblers whose sole job is to inflame people and hold their attention between radio commercials (read more - Evan Weiner - New Jersey News Room) Charleston's WCHS radio's 58Live talk radio host Michael John Agnello has been arrested after Nitro police saw him speeding through town - He had pleaded guilty in October 2009 to aggravated DUI following a July arrest for drunk driving on Interstate 64. His license was revoked in September. In June of this year, Agnello was charged with domestic battery after allegedly throwing his girlfriend to the floor during an argument (read more - Rusty Marks - Charleston Gazette) Sydney L. "Syd" Small, 73, who owned radio station WWRL and struggled for almost three decades to keep it viable as an alternative media voice, died unexpectedly over the weekend (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) If everything hadn’t gone so terribly, terribly wrong at WGN-AM (720), Steve Cochran would be closing in on his 20th month as morning personality there. He’d also be lead-off man for a real Chicago news/talk lineup that might have included good guys like John Williams, Bob Sirott, David Kaplan and Bill Leff (or, unless they really had chosen to retire by now, women like Kathy O’Malley and Judy Markey) - The good news is that he’s about to make his presence felt in the market again with the official launch of his new website, stevecochranshow.com (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) For years I’d been hearing about the green room at “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” so on a recent visit to Hollywood, I got myself on the list -- Calling it a “green room” (the place where a show’s guests wait when they’re not on air) is a stretch, kind of like calling a show that tapes from 7 to 8 p.m. “Jimmy Kimmel LIVE” (read more - Aaron Barnhart - KC Star) Johnny Carson's $156 million gift (read more - Hollywood Reporter) Keith Olbermann has been dropped by NBC's Sunday Night Football - MSNBC says it was distracting him from his work on the cable channel (read more - Michael Shain - NY Post) During a riotous 13-year span that covered four radio stations - which was not seamless due to such vexations as format changes, suspensions and firings-Joe McDonnell was my sports talk show partner on the Southern California airways - I dubbed him the Big Nasty, which encapsulated not only his bumptious persona but his considerable girth that, at its peak, reached 740 pounds - Well, I caught up with my old friend the other evening at Phil Trani's Restaurant in Long Beach, and I couldn't believe what I saw, heard and felt. Literally, ol' Joe was half the man he used to be (read more - Doug Krikorian - LA Daily News) "Sarah Palin's Alaska" will debut on TLC on Nov. 14. One of her super special guest stars will be Kate Gosselin, along with her kids (read more - Tim Cuprisin - OnMilwaukee) Thursday August 12 KMA 960 AM in Shenandoah, Iowa, just south of Omaha, will have a birthday celebration to recognize its 85th year on the air with an 85 foot birthday cake that will feature a “cake dive”, and current and former KMA employees (visit KMAland.com) The newly created non-profit St. Louis Media History Foundation has named 17 media, advertising and public relations veterans as its first board of directors (read more - St Louis Biz Journal) News Burps
From
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Cat Schwartz
is the Hi-Tech Mommy who has some great
electronic gadgets
for
Maybe Cox, Saga and other competitors have finally gotten to CEO Lew Dickey as they continue to attract current and former Cumulus sales reps. Or maybe Dickey is just tired of being seen as a mean manager – tough guy who puts his bare knuckle business strategies ahead of touchy feely things that most employees really appreciate. Now it has finally happened (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) The Key to Building Value in Radio (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Pandora Just Keeps On Coming -- Who would have ever thought that a music service would dominate radio the way Pandora does? Many of the 157 million Pandora listeners call the service "radio" but we know the difference, don't we? (read more - Mel Phillips - Now and Then) As PPM rolls out across the land, programmers and managers often find themselves in an uncomfortable position with heritage talent. On the one hand, a great personality show often becomes part of the station’s brand, generating loyal listening and advertiser support. On the other, some shows have a difficult time adjusting to the faster pace of PPM meter maintenance (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) The Conclave elected five new members to its Board -- Harv Blain, a member of the Vallie-Richards-Donovan Consultancy; Journal Broadcasting’s Director of Radio Programming, Tom Land; another newly-elected Journal executive, J. Pat Miller – PD/Morning Talent for 94.5-The Lake/Milwaukee; Rejoining the Board is Tom Oakes, VP/Programming for New Northwest Broadcasters and Enrico (Rico) Garcia will be joining the Board from his post of Director of Programming and Promotion for Results Radio/Sacramento Monday August 9, 2010 Radio stations adjust to new technology, competition - Listeners tune in, tune out or turn off -- "We're running less commercials," said Tony Bonnici, vice president/general manager of Las Vegas-based Lotus Broadcasting, which owns six stations, including KOMP, KXPT-FM, 97.1 and KBAD-AM, 920. "We went from running 30s and 60s (seconds) to more 10s and 15s. People once ran 18 minutes of commercials an hour. Now it's 12 and 10. Our worst enemy is ourselves, when we get greedy and add more clutter. Listeners will compromise to a degree, but when we ask too much of them, they go away" (read more - Steve Bornfeld - Las Vegas Review-Journal) Radio talk show host Mandy Connell of WHAS in Louisville has apologized for calling President Barack Obama a "half-breed" on the air, saying "I was embarrassed for myself" (read more - WKYT TV) Minutes after a federal judge sentenced Greg Skrepenak to two years in prison Friday, the corrupt former Luzerne County commissioner's foul-mouthed father threatened to "knock" off WILK Radio host Steve Corbett's head. "Don't say a word," the elder Skrepenak told , "because I'll knock your (expletive) head off" (read more - Michael R. Sisak - Wilkes-Barre Citizen's Voice) Fisher Communications Reports Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results: TV Revenue Up 37%; Consolidated Revenue Increased 28% (read more - MarketWatch) It was the third time in four years Hannity brought his "Freedom Concert" to the Tri-State. Organizers said the event has been sold out every year it comes to the area (read more - WLWT TV) Radio) News Burps
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Liat Rohrer
can help you lock-in
guaranteed gas prices. She
has details about
Satellite radio is just one of many entertainment options in our cars, but it's one that's proven surprisingly popular. And somehow, during a recession, and at a time when all sorts of alternatives are hitting the market, satellite radio is flourishing (read more - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) GM Paul Menard says that SignonSanDiego.com hopes to build out to over 50 shows in the coming months with local programming via the new "Internet Air Waves" - The shows are promoted by The San Diego Union-Tribune and SignonSanDiego.com (for a sneak peek and listen click here) It was a year ago today that veteran meteorologist Brad Barton was released from KRLD-AM (1080), where he had been forecasting weather on the radio for 31 years - "After nearly losing hope, WBAP proved to me that nice guys can finish first," he writes. He says the "icing on the cake" came last month when he was inducted to the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. "Life is good," he says (read more - Jason Sickles - Dallas Morning News) A Jackson public radio disc jockey - DJ Psycho, 38, of WMPR - is recovering after being shot multiple times in what authorities say was a robbery outside the station (read more - Kathleen Baydala - Jackson Clarion-Ledger) Dick Clark still has time for his fans. The wheelchair-bound TV legend arrived at NYC hot spot Upstairs at the Kimberly Hotel the other night for dinner with his wife, Kari Wigton. During the meal, staff kept guests clamoring for autographs away from Clark (read more - NY Post - Page Six) From Claude Hall
-- Today, a special thank you to
Scott St. James
for running something about my novel
“I Love Radio”
on his blog. And then, WOW, you should see what
Don Barrett did on his daily
website LARadio.com.
Knocked me out, Don! I appreciate. Among those who’ve already bought
copies of “I
Love Radio” are Jonathan Diary of a 'portable people meter' person -- "I don't know how they found me," she (Angella Sprauve) said, "but they called and asked some general questions: age, ethnic background, income. They said they'd had difficulty finding people in this area in my age range." Sprauve is 32. She had never heard of Arbitron but, after checking out the company, agreed to be a "panelist" (read more - Ben Fong-Torres - SF Chronicle) From Tommy Kramer
-- My friend Beau Weaver,
an excellent voiceover actor in Los Angeles, was recently the host
of a panel at the Voice 2010 seminar. I’ve worked with Beau on and
off ever since we first met in 1972, and After more than 30 years of helping radio listeners across North Texas and beyond with leaky roofs, worn countertops and overflowing toilets, the Super Handyman Al Carrell gave his last bit of home-repair advice Saturday (read more - Nenna Satija - Dallas News) A radio station's half-baked turkey-frying stunt was irresponsible and childish, but it wasn't a serious crime, the state attorney said today. Mark Ober announced that instead of facing misdemeanor charges, Todd Schnitt, host of the "The MJ Morning Show" on WFLZ, 93.3 FM, and two other members of his crew will have to enter a pre-trial diversion program for first-time offenders (read more - view the photo - Tom Brennan - Tampa Trib) (More RDN CENTRAL ARCHIVES - Click here)
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radio biz the only time the spotlight is on you is when you are
losing. When your winning you seem to be working in a vacuum and
your wins become a very closely guarded secret
