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Italian TV News Fight 2010The Wires (March 11, 2010)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. DRB has no affillition with these stories.Raw Story: Rush Limbaugh has told his audience he will leave the US and go to Costa Rica for health care if health care reform becomes law - or did he say that he would leave the US -- period -- and then backed down and clarified his remarks? Modern Rock KROQ/Los Angeles moves the Loveline show to 12-2 a.m. on Monday through Thursday, but will remain in its orginal 10 p.m. to midnight slot on Sunday evenings. Randy Dotinga: And now, something completely different. If you tuned in to the last moments of "The Mikey Show" on FM 94/9 last Friday morning, you would have heard host Mikey Esparza and his sidekicks engage in some usual morning-show chatter. Astor To Flip 1450 To Talk (Mar 10, 2010)All Access reports that Art Astor's two stations, KFSD 1450 in Escondido, and KSPA 1510 in Ontario, will be flipping to talk on April 1 and March 15 respectively. It will replace the adult standards format.The stations will be billed as "Southern California Talk." CRN Digital Talk Radio will be programming the stations and package them for sales with one of CRN's satellite channel lineups. The lineup on KSPA will be like this: Mancow Muller, Laura Ingraham, What's Cooking Today, Talk Back, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Michael Savage, Rusty Humphries, The P.M. Show, Red Eye Radio, and Barry Farber. Days and times not published. The lineup on KFSD will be like this: Doug Stephan, Dennis Miller What's Cooking Today, Talk Back, Lou Dobbs, Laura Ingraham on tape, Rusty Humphries, The P.M. Show, Red Eye Radio, and Barry Farber. Days and times not published.
The Wires (Mar 10, 2010)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. DRB has no affillition with these stories. Inside Radio: NFL games to go mobile. Are you ready for some football - on a mobile phone? The National Football League is reportedly ready to allow play-by-play on mobile phones, giving radio one more competitor. The Wall Street Journal reports the NFL has signed a four-year, $720 million deal with Verizon Wireless. Customers will get access to the games for $13 a month.CBS creates HD sports "quadcast." CBS Radio creates "The Fan Sports Network" on "106.7 The Fan" WJFK-FM, Washington making sister sports stations from Baltimore (HD2), New York (HD3) and Philadelphia (HD4) available as HD Radio multicasts. CBS VP or programming Chris Oliviero says Washington is the "ideal home" for the quadcast since the market attracts people from throughout the Northeast. The era of HD4 begins. HD Radio signals can technically be sliced into eight separate channels, even though most engineers have stopped at three. A software upgrade by iBiquity has now made it possible to carve out a fourth station, and the first station to upgrade is in D.C. Raw Story: Rush Limbaugh has told his audience he will move to Costa Rica if health care reform becomes law. And now the only question that remains is whether Limbaugh will make good on his word, or join the ranks of the empty-promisers NY Times: One of the labels' biggest concerns remains: If people can listen to whatever they want online, why would they buy music? Meanwhile, Internet radio services like Pandora, which cannot play music on demand, are attracting millions of listeners and cautious support from record labels Inside Music Media: Technology is enabling consumers to get their news when they want or when they need to have it while radio stations seem to be conceding the battle for the digital frontier. If you factor in the 40 million Pandora users, whatever listening radio stations can manage (typically one to three percent of their audiences online), increasingly available WiFi Internet streams and personal iPod-type devices, it begs the question - is radio ready for the digital future? Q96 Now Testing Full Power (Mar 9, 2010)At about 10am when I first turned on the radio at 96.1, KSIQ began blasting top 40 hits in muddly mono sound.Q96, KSIQ 96.1, relocated from Brawley to Campo and has recently begun broadcasting its signal in full power. The question is...is my reception of KSIQ coming from the new booster station on Mount San Miguel, or is it coming from the transmitter near Campo broadcasting at its full 25kw of power? I presume that it's coming from its booster since it's unlikely that I can get the Campo transmitter if its even broadcasting at full power. The station boasts that it plays all the hits. This is the first competetor for Channel 933 in over a decade. And yes, they even played one of Miley Cyrus's songs, an artist that I never heard on any other station in San Diego. I listened to the station all day while driving all over Claremont and the 52 and I-8 freeways. The signal faded when I was on 52 going east and a mile to the west of the summit entering Santee. The station now has 25,000 watts ERP from its Campo transmitter, and the booster station licensed to Santee is licensed for 700 watts ERP. The station primarily will serve the market south of the I-8 and Northern Baja California.
The Wires (Mar 9, 2010)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. DRB has no affillition with these stories.NY Times: For more than 70 years, royalty payments for air time have flowed to the songwriters and music publishers but not to the musicians or record companies. Now there is a renewed drive to revisit that arrangement, and in recent weeks the volume of the discussion has increased several decibels. For the radio industry, that has meant taking the battle to a place it knows: the airwaves Gary Lycan: Stryker, who joined AMP Radio 97.1 FM in afternoon drive one year ago, has returned to his previous home, KROQ 106.7 FM, 4-7 p.m. weekdays + KFWB 980 AM is making what could be a really smart move, trading rants for money news, starting March 15 Hear 2.0: Jeff and Jer's Garage-gram: This is where top-ranked morning shows go when they go off the air - to the garage. At least, that's the destination (so far) for San Diego's legendary Jeff & Jer Weird Dream (Mar 9, 2010)I found myself in the year 1986. Record stores were thriving. Johnny Downs came out of retirement to host a local music show on KFMB-TV with co-production coming from 91X. Mojo Nixon and Country Dick Montana teamed up to do some comedy blues numbers. Biff and Skippy were the men who got jobs as roadies for the duo and their special band The Skid Farmers. Didn't see Larry Himmel in my dream though, but it was interrupted rudely by some guy who looks like a gorilla, tells bad jokes, ends them with an annoying laugh, and plugs his company: Mad Jacks!
Facebook Stuff (Mar 8, 2010)Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw Fans on Facebook now boasts 3,310 members.Bring back Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw now boasts 6,789 fans.
Didja Hear? (Mar 8, 2010)On last night's Steve Yuhas show, he mentioned something about a child killer being as bad as someone who steers an airplane into the Twin Towers.Stumbled on 91X at about 4:45pm yesterday. They were playing "True" by Spandau Ballet. Looks like they're going into an hourly time warp back to the 80s with one song an hour. Reception of KSIQ 96.1 finally reaches my house, though, very weak and muddly. In a time where San Diego is reeling from the grisly deaths of two teenage girls, Chelsea King and Amber DuBois, it may be relieving to go to the Jesus Christ Show and listen to a couple of shows there http://www.thejesuschristshow.com/. Follow him on twitter http://twitter.com/jesusshow.
Busy Web Week (Mar 8, 2010)If you followed me on Twitter, you've gotten into a heat of the night at about 9pm Saturday night when many angry posts about WABC-TV pulling itself from Cablevision New York due to retransmission fee issues were twittered. WABC and ABC7 made the top 10 Twitter New York City trends for an hour.My website eightisenough.com logged a whopping 14,400 plus hits on Monday, the day seven of the cast members of Eight is Enough reunited. No e-mails about the website crashing with that many people visiting the site peaking at some 2600 visitors in a single hour! This is the most hits of any website that I run in a single day since over 3,000 stormed over to sandiegoradionews.com the day that Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw left KGB-FM two months ago.
Update...WABC Back on Cablevision (5:45pm PST Mar 6, 2010)From Paid Content: The Show Goes On: Cablevision, Disney Reach ‘Agreement In Principle’ On WABC Fee. The signal of WABC was restored by owner Disney to Cablevision's NY customers, but it came at 8:45pm New York time, 15 minutes after the Oscars telecast began.
Just In...WABC Pulled From Cablevision (9pm PST Mar 6, 2010)It's official. WABC has been pulled off of Cablevision New York's cable system over the retransmission fees WABC's parent, Disney, demanded for Cablevision to pay. This means that three million viewers will be without ABC for the Oscars presentation. Digital over the air reception of WABC 7 is not as reliable as their old analog signal was last year.Could this corporate vs. cable TV feud spill over into San Diego? Stay tuned.
Fish Sandwich Testing (Mar 6, 2010)Over the past two weeks, I went over to five of the chain restaurants to try out their fish sandwiches.These are my findings. This report is not an implied endorsement. Your taste may vary. 1. Carl's Jr. Catch Fish Sandwich. Reg price: $3.69. Special price: N.A. Too much tartar sauce, ok amount of lettuce, tomato, fish is average size, moist, soft, and a bit greasy, no onion, no pickle, and no cheese (note: no cheese is a plus). 50 out of 75 points for quality. Price it should be for what you get: $1.99. Grade for quality and regular price: C minus. 2. Burger King BK Fish. Reg price: not listed, but around $3.69. Special price: $1.49. Too much tartar sauce, ok amount of lettuce, no tomato, fish patty is large, moist crisp, but way too greasy, no onion, no pickle, and no cheese. 40 out of 75 points for quality. Price it should be for what you get: $1.49. Grade for quality and regular price: F. 3. McDonald's Filet O'Fish. Reg price: $3.49. Special price: $1.29. Moderate tartar sauce, no lettuce, no tomato, fish patty is average size, moist, soft, and not greasy, no onion, no pickle, but prescence of cheese (a minus). 40 out of 75 points for quality. Price it should be for what you get: 99 cents. Grade for quality and regular price: F. 4. Jack in the Box Fish Filet. Price: $1.49. No indication if it's a special or regular price. Moderate tartar sauce, lettuce, no tomato, fish filet is moist, crisp, and not greasy, no onion, no pickle, and no cheese. 60 out of 75 points for quality. Price it could be for what you get: $1.99. Grade for quality and $1.49 price: A+. 5. Wendy's North Pacific Cod. Price: not listed, but might be around $3.69. Moderate tartar sauce, lettuce, no tomato, fish fillet is moist, crisp, and not greasy, no onion, no pickle, and no cheese. 60 out of 75 points for quality. Price it should be for what you get: $1.99. Grade for quality and rumored to be $3.69 price: C. Findings: Wendy's and Jack's fish sandwiches were a match in terms of quality, but Jack's $1.49 price made it a far better bargain than Wendy's overpriced almost identical fish sandwich. Wendy's beats Carl's fish sandwiches because Wendy's fish is less greasy and doesn't overdo it on the tartar sauce, but Wendy's could use a tomato to match what Carl's offers, then Wendy's would get a C plus. Carl's Jr. needs to get a Six Dollar Fish Sandwich with all the trimmings of a regular burger to make it earn the $3.69 its priced at. Burger King needs to grill the fish sandwiches instead of deep frying them. Their fish patties are the greasiest of the five: only Long John Silvers' fish is worse. McDonalds' fish sandwich overall is the skimpiest of the five. It should be 99 cents, the price of a cheeseburger. These tests were paid for by me and none of the sandwiches were paid for by anybody. These fish sandwiches named above are what you will get when you buy them at the restaurants. Your taste may vary. If this survey was informative and unbiased to you, then please Donate a Buck here ESPN L.A. Shifts Local Shows (Mar 6, 2010)ESPN Radio's national schedule is changing on April 5, so for ESPN radio stations that air local sports shows, the lineups will be altered.KSPN 710's schedule will change because Colin Cowherd's national show is moving to 7-10am PT. The midday L.A. Sports Live show will move to 10am-2pm. Steve Mason and John Ireland's show will move to 2pm-6pm. The new "In The Zone" will air live from 6-9pm. The Wires (Mar 6, 2010)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. DRB has no affillition with these stories.Jay Posner: Still hazy in radio booth for Padres Jay Posner: Padres Shaking Up The Radio Booth John Maffei: TUBE TALK: All Padres spring training games will be on radio for first time Gary Lycan: Stryker, who joined AMP Radio 97.1 FM in afternoon drive one year ago, has returned to his previous home, KROQ 106.7 FM, 4-7 p.m. weekdays + KFWB 980 AM is making what could be a really smart move, trading rants for money news, starting March 15 NY Biz: No winners seen if WABC goes dark on Cablevision - As Saturday deadline looms in talks over retransmission fees, a blackout could prove costly to both parties if the dispute drags out for many weeks Hear 2.0: Let me say this as plainly as I can: The Internet is coming to the automobile. And with it will come audio, video, and new user experiences matched to the medium, beneath the distraction threshold, and appropriate (if not essential) for the place - in a car and on the road Inside Music Media: There is a dichotomy between what the radio industry thinks a program director's job is going to be in the future and what it will really be. For example, to radio CEOs anxious to keep cutting costs you see two paths: One, using a program director to oversee the content of more than one (often three or more) radio stations. Of course, this is absurd The Wires (Mar 5, 2010)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. DRB has no affillition with these stories.Tom Taylor radio-info.com: Another smooth jazzer gone. Entercom bumps off 12-year smooth jazz KSSJ, Sacramento. The replacement format? Alternative rock, on a station known as "Radio 94.7" with new requested call letters of KFMS. Entercom had featured jazz on KSSJ, Fair Oaks since 1998 but had just recently dropped the "jazz" imaging. Entercom says "the audience for the station can no longer sustain the business of the station." The spate of smooth jazz rub-outs began almost exactly two years ago, in New York, Washington, Atlanta, Houston and Baltimore. Only a couple of months ago, Cleveland's WNWV (107.3) transitioned to adult alternative. Now here's KSSJ, Sacramento - a 4.4 share (age 6+ AQH share) and #7-ranked finisher in the January PPMs - being snuffed. There are still smooth jazz stations that are doing well with listeners, like Seattle's KWJZ. It ranks #6 in the January PPM. Down in L.A., "Wave" KTWV has a 2.9 share and a cume of about 1.8 million. The Sacramento switch happened at noon Wednesday, and the Sacramento Board of Radio-Info.com signaled "change" early in the morning. The Hill: Rep. John Dingell assured broadcasters that he is against the "tax" he said would be imposed by the Performance Rights Act. He spoke just hours after fellow Rep. John Conyers Jr. said performers have the right to compensation. PC World: Start Your Own Internet Radio Station for Free - As long as you have a PC with a broadband connection (and Skype) you have what it takes to inflict your talk-radio rants or musical taste on anyone who'll listen - For a quick and dirty way to stream music to your buddies, you can simply grab a male-to-male 3.5mm RCA audio cable, plug one end into the microphone jack and the other end into the headphone jack, and either start a Skype session or sign up for an account with a Web-based streaming service (Justin.tv or Ustream.tv, for example) to get going. Inside Music Media: You can fool all of the listeners with voice tracking, some of the time, but you can't fool all of the listeners all of the time. Now, there is growing evidence that your leader in self-destructive radio strategies, Clear Channel, is forcing their employees to do voice tracking for free - as an add-on to the air jobs they apparently should be lucky to have. FMQB: Latest File Sharing Court Ruling: $27K For 37 Songs The Wires (Mar 4, 2010)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. DRB has no affillition with these stories.The Hill: Rep. John Dingell assured broadcasters that he is against the "tax" he said would be imposed by the Performance Rights Act. He spoke just hours after fellow Rep. John Conyers Jr. said performers have the right to compensation Inside Music Media: If you cut news, your listeners will get it elsewhere - perhaps online. Some 26% of Americans get their news by phone according to a recent Pew survey. If you fire their favorite radio personalities, perhaps they will spend time with their own friends more on social networks, or find other diversions. If you lack variety, they now have options to find it. If you dilute local radio, they can punish you by relying on their own network of friends, sources and online websites Randy Dotinga: Are local radio stars gone forever? Tirade: KGB and X1FM (Mar 3, 2010)The problem with getting e-mails from certain people who don't like my streaming radio stations that I program is that they like to omit who they are.I was digging through my 2,000 e-mails that have been collecting dust since last fall because of a huge website project I've been working on, and came across two from a couple of cretins that work in local radio. What do they do for work? Twiddle their thumbs while drinking whiskey on the job? Are they doing anything for San Diego in terms of giving us what we want to hear on the local airwaves and on the Internet? Nope. They must be stoned for writing me and complaining about my DFSXmas station I programmed last fall. It's not my fault that they can't program their stations right. There's nothing I can do about it. They're so rude, they didn't bother to put in their names in the e-mails. We'll, judging from the tone of their e-mails that I've received, I got it down to two of the worst offenders of music programming in San Diego. One works at KGB-FM. The other works at X1FM. I'm not naming any names, but to those two people at those named companies who say that I'm nothing but a pizza man who don't have a clue... KGB and X1FM, YOU SUCK! I've been in tune with what San Diegans have been wanting for decades and have programmed exciting formats on the Net that interested people such as DFSXmas playing all funny holiday music, DFSX radio mixing in novelty with the best of the non boring pop and rock, and currently, ifunnyradio.com, an industrial-strength radio station that plays funny all the time. Progressive adult rock is what San Diego rockers want. They listen to 91X, 94/9, KPRI, and XM channel 40. They don't listen to KGB because they're stuck with playing the same short timespan of songs other programmers were brave enough to break out when they were once new. The people at KGB can't do rock radio right. Comedy is what San Diego wants and comedy is what they want. If KGB doesn't want to pay Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw for what they're worth, then KGB-FM is toast! They'll tune in ifunnyradio.com or somewhere else for comedy. KGB and X1FM are the ones that don't have a clue. KGB's tanking of the ratings prove that without the DSC, they're DOA. X1FM is a train wreck that sounds nothing like the mix that 91X used to have when it was new. X1FM is the ultimate station that plays songs that are not hits, and songs nobody cares about. X1FM is a total bore; KIFM's smooth jazz format sounds like techno compared to X1FM. What does KGB call classic rock and roll? Elton John's "Tiny Dancer?" Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide?" WTF! What kind of idiot calls these songs rock and roll? I can't name the people behind those stations here, but I can tell them that they can go ahead and suck my dipstick in Mobil 5w/30w oil! The people in charge of the music at X1FM and KGB should work at a Burger King instead. Like Burger King, the people don't have a clue, so it would be a perfect match for them. Let the people who love music program radio the way it should be. KGB-FM is dead. It's not happening. Time to bury KGB and bring out progressive alternative dance, the music format for the digital age. But KGB and X1FM is not my biggest beef of all. The following is. WABC-TV Greedy (Mar 3, 2010)This is about a Disney owned and operated station in New York city, not unlike any of the other corporate network TV stations across the nation. As a matter of fact, the only corporation that is more evil than Clear Channel is The Disney Company.Yes, Disney, the ones that took off most of the sports from ABC-TV and put them on its expensive cabler ESPN networks, the ones that assaulted the world with Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel, the ones that air mostly reruns of C-level family entertainment on ABC Family (except Sabrina's show is more of a B-level show), the ones that program crap for entertainment on ABC-TV's prime time schedule, and the ones that are pulling out all kinds of tricks to get cable subscribers to cough up massive amounts of money to the cable operators that carry their channels. WABC-TV in New York city is a Disney owned television station. New York City is largest television market in the nation. Cablevision serves the New York area. It carried WABC-TV on its system for decades. Now, Disney is telling WABC-TV to get Cablevision to beef up its corporate coffers by forcing Cablevision to either pony up the extra money to continue to carry WABC-TV, or have it pulled from its system. Cablevision serves its customers in Long Island, Westchester, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and selected suburbs of Connecticut and New Jersey. Those are very large swabs of customers that WABC may be losing if they don't get their money. As of 12:01 a.m. ET on Sunday, March 7, 2010, WABC-TV will be replaced by nothing if Cablevision does not accept their greedy demands for retransmission fees. If Cablevision gives in, they would have to raise their rates, like they did when ESPN and Disney Channel demanded more money for carriage, for their paying customers, who are already paying too much money for basic and expanded cable as it is today. I called 1-877-990-ABC7, and a message said in their own spin that Cablevision collects millions of dollars while WABC gets nothing from the cable fees Cablevision collects. Here's my spin. The broadcast and cable stations deserve nothing from the cable customers. Nothing. If they can't get enough advertising revenue to keep their stations afloat, they should consolidate, sell, or shut down their excess networks. The cable suscribers have been getting screwed by Disney, Fox, and all of the other large broadcast conglomerates for decades with escalating carriage rights fees that are passed on to the customer, whose average cable bill for just the basic and expanded cable lineups are about $50 a month. That's far too much for a customer to pay for just the dozen out of 60 channels that they regularily watch a month. Cable companies pay cable programmers to carry advertiser-supported networks such as ESPN (which runs about $4 a month), CNN, USA, MTV, ABC Family, and dozens of others; the fees that they cable companies pay out are entirely paid for by means of passing on the fees to their cable customers, or else, the cable companies would simply go out of business. That's how it really works. Cable isn't exactly getting that rich on $50 a month basic/expanded cable tiers. Cablevision says in a statement: "It is shocking that in these difficult economic times, ABC Disney is threatening to remove WABC unless Cablevision and its customers pay $40 million in new fees for programming that it offers today for free, both over-the-air and online. It is not fair for ABC Disney to hold Cablevision customers hostage by forcing them to pay what amounts to a new TV tax. We urge ABC Disney not to pull the plug and instead work with us to reach a fair agreement," said Charles Schueler, Executive Vice President, Communications and Community Relations, Cablevision Systems Corp., in a written statement. Cox in San Diego, for example, charges about $15 a month for limited basic, and about $35 for expanded basic. Out of that, unknown shares of the charges go back to the programmers of the broadcast stations and cable networks in the form of retransmission fees. Well, let me tell you about ABC. This was the network that, for example, did a lot of screwiing up on the viewers. For example, they cancelled a top 20 show in 1981, "Eight is Enough", that once ran on Saturday nights in 1981. That I never forgave ABC for doing. As an insult to injury, in the fall of 1981, a new horror movie host, by the name of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, debut with a series of hosting movie shows that got so popular that it may have put a dent in the ratings of KABC in Los Angeles, which ran dog network programming after "Eight" got canned. What a sense of timing. I guess Elvira would have never made it if "Eight" never got cancelled. Later on, when ABC was getting back on a sitcom roll after hitting a nadir in its ratings due to the rise of NBC's programming in the mid 80s, ABC had another hit featuring, well, another large family, with two parents and eight children, called "Just the Ten of Us," which did well on Fridays at 9:30pm opposite the waning "Dallas." Guess what? ABC cancelled it in the spring of 1990. Another bonehead decision. In 1993, ABC cancelled another great family show, "The Wonder Years", with the producers expecting the show to continue the show for one more season. Instead, the series finale gave a quick rundown of the season that never was during its final minute of the last show of the series. In 1996, yes it involves another large family show again, ABC had a problem with its planning for the fall schedule that year. "Step by Step" was, yes, a victim, but the twist of it was, it wasn't cancelled. It was delayed until March of 1997 until the first run cycles of two of its then-new shows, "Sabrina the Teenage Witch", and "Clueless", finished most of their first-season episodes. The producers of "Step by Step" and another show, "Family Matters," which also ran on ABC, got so pissed off that they moved their shows to CBS the following fall of 1997. ABC, meanwhile, cancelled "Clueless", but that turned out to be a clueless act as the show later began to gain ratings momentum during the summer. It moved to UPN where it lasted for two more seasons. "Sabrina," meanwhile, struggled in the 8pm slot on Friday night. Why didn't they put it on Tuesday nights at 8pm, the slot "Full House" used to have until 1995 when the show itself called it quits? "Sabrina" lasted two more seasons until, yes, the rat bastards at ABC cancelled it after its fourth season, because they wanted to put a fourth weekly installment of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" on it. "Sabrina" moved to the WB where it stayed for three more years until it ran out of ideas (my own observation) for stories and just begged to be cancelled after its seventh season. ABC-TV squandered away these and other fun shows such as "The Bionic Woman", which was cancelled because it had too many shows to renew (it moved to NBC Saturday nights, ironically, "Eight" replaced its ABC Wednesday at 8pm slot in the fall of 1977!) ABC also squandered away other shows that still had some steam and ran some older series too long. "Best of the West" was the best of the sitcoms ABC had in the early 80s; it, like "It's a Living", "Bosom Buddies", and "Too Close for Comfort," never had a chance to catch on before being cancelled after a few seasons. It also cancelled "Soap" with one more season for the producers to show in 1981. In the mid 00s, ABC also lost probably the most popular prime time series ever, "Monday Night Football", to its sister cable network, ESPN. MNF belongs on broadcast television, not cable! To ABC-TV...f--k you! You deserve nothing from the cable companies or the television viewers you screwed. The Wires (Mar 3, 2010)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. DRB has no affillition with these stories.Google: Dionne Warwick wants performers paid for radio play B-Net: The whining by broadcast networks, local TV stations and newspapers about their news business woes is pathetic. The cause of their self-made problems is their stubborn resistance to replace - not just tweak - business models that ceased to function with the rise of social media and instant news by the people, for the people. NY Daily News: Howard Stern blasts 'Tonight' show's Jay Leno: 'Just the mention of his name makes me want to vomit' Inside Music Media: Free or paid? I'd take free, how about you? However, when I can't get what I want for free and I really want it, then I'll have to consider paying. This brings me to my passion that is the transition from traditional to new media. You know all those many local radio personalities out there who have a following but no radio station at which to work? They may be able to charge micropayments for podcasts, blogs and websites. That is assuming the personalities are unique enough that the audience does not want to live without them. Mel Phillips: Richard Wiley was the FCC Chairman who led the drive to ban cross-ownership in 1975, now he wants to kill the monster he created. Wiley was opposed to media companies owning a newspaper and/or radio, TV property in the same market, but now a counsel to the Newspaper Association of America and whose Wiley Rein law firm represents CBS Corp, Clear Channel Communications Inc., Gannett Co., Morris Communications Co. and Belo Corp., Wiley is the chief advocate to reverse his own ban. Jacobs Media: Is it any wonder that the record industry is in deep trouble? Like other "old media" sectors, the establishment music industry has made one lame decision after another. And it continues to lay the blame for its troubles in all the wrong places The Wires (Mar 2, 2010)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. DRB has no affillition with these stories.CNN News: More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report from Pew Internet and American Life Project NY Post: NBC's decision to return Jay Leno to his "Tonight Show" perch starting tonight, pitting him against Letterman's "Late Show" for a second time, has revived a long-running war with CBS PR Newswire: Regent Communications has reached an agreement in principal with its lenders for a consensual financial restructuring that will reduce the Company's debt and strengthen its balance sheet resulting in the elimination of approximately $87 million of the Company's debt Gary Lycan: It's shake, rattle and roll time in local rock radio - classic rock KLOS/95.5 FM is the most listened to rock station for six straight months. And alternative rock KYSR/98.7 FM topped rival KROQ/106.7 FM for the first time in several key categories, including overall listening and Adults age 25-54 NY Times: Think of it as a 100-lane highway with various lanes set aside for particular uses, including AM and FM radio, TV and wireless computer technology. The government - specifically, the FCC - is in charge of deciding which devices use which lanes. Because we can't create additional spectrum, we must make better use of the existing space. And the target that looks most promising in this regard is the spectrum used for over-the-air television broadcasts LA Times: "I'm a big alt-country fan, but I got to a place in my own musical listening where I was starting to not listen anymore," Stephen King said when he called the other day to talk about volunteering his voice as narrator of Shooter Jennings' atmospheric tale of a late-night radio talk show host who is the last voice of freedom in an increasingly restrictive society. "I didn't buy much music anymore, then I got an XM radio and discovered this show, `Outlaw Country,' hosted by Mojo Nixon, and to me that sounded like the way rock 'n' roll used to sound back in the day when I was a kid Hear 2.0: Now, more than ever, the audience knows when you're faking. Especially the more active and engaged audience. There's so much crap and manipulative nonsense in this world, your audience will thank you for a moment of authenticity. They'll heave a sigh of relief for a gift that has real feeling behind it Hear 2.0: "Let me state it as clearly as I can: internet radio cannot and will not replace over-the-air broadcast radio." So says iBiquity's Bob Struble, and I could not agree more. But I think Mr. Struble is making the wrong point FMQB: Regent Files for Chapter 11 All Access: Radio News Covers Chile Quake, Tsunami Threat KCSN in Northridge switched their station to full-time Triple A programming Monday at 10am. The station will run the Triple A programming 24 hours on weekdays. The station will continue to run its current schedule of volunteer programming from FRIDAY at 9p through SUNDAY midnight. The classical-American hybrid KCSN (88.5) shuffles the Brahms and Beethoven to its HD2 channel and embraces adult alternative artists like Norah Jones and John Mayer. The Cal State-Northridge-owned station says it's looking to "fill a gap on the L.A. radio dial, where a lot of good music has been missing for a long time." KSON/SAN DIEGO "CLIFF & Company" morning sidekick Morgan Thomas has exited. Co-hosts Cliff Dumas and Bill Tanner, along with Producer/Traffic Reporter Tori Peck, still remain on the show. David Tanny Podcast For Morning Commnutehttp://podcast.davidtanny.com/ is where you can download the 30-minute David Tanny podcasts that I produce from somewhere near beautiful downtown Kearny Mesa...wherever that is!You can listen to some of the funny songs that I found on the Internet, followed by a feature called the Demented Datebook, which is a feature full of celebrity birthdays and today in history events. I also play some features such as Berger and Prescott from the old days of KGB and 91X, plus Police on the Scene with a Crime Prevention Lean, A Minute More, and other stuff. I produce this show twice a week, but sometimes like this week, I have four produced for the week. Download, burn to a CD-R, copy to an iPod or mp3 player, and listen while you commute. For traffic, weather, and news, use other gadgets.
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"I Still Get Demented" Show Returns!
It's back as a series!
The long dormat dementia and comedy showcase of songs, sketches, and parodies is making a comeback in time for the Halloween weekend with a marathon airing exclusivelt on ifunnyradio.com. The original run of ISGD began as a regular series in January of 2003 and ended in July of 2007, though a web-only download version was produced in August of 2007. Now that live 365 has caved in and decided to give all of their streaming package subscribers more space, the time felt right to make the move to put the premier dementia radio show back into production.
"ISGD" will not be available on a podcast, another radio station, or as a streaming download on another website. It will exclusively on the iFunnyRadio stream and won't be made available for sale. Listen to the ISGD Show
Saturdays: 10am ET, 9am CT, 7am PT Comedy artists who perform music, skeches, stand-up, and parodies are welcome to submit their works to host David Tanny by e-mailing him, or sending a package (mp3 rips encouraged for faster response) to David Tanny, iFunnyRadio, PO Box 19569, San Diego, CA 92159. Donations of $1 or more are accepted to help pay for the stream. For information about donating, just visit the home page of ifunnyradio.com for details.
Listen to DFS Disco-X LD5)Want to hear some disco music? Listen to my made-up disco channel on Pandora right here:Also listen to my other stations, DFS Modern X LD4, D F S X Classic Rock, D F S X Dementia LD2, Electronica, Funk, House of D F S X LD3, and for some reason, Taylor Swift Radio. I don't know where that came from.
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![]() Check out the rtdb: The Radio and TV Database Project. Updates on the digital subchannels for cities outside of San Diego county are needed. The e-mail link is seen on every page on this website so you can submit your changes. ![]() The section is completely redesigned with a Living Feeds page with several top headlines from a dozen topics, links to even more topics, and easier navigation to all of the pages within the section. ![]() ![]() Now 30 minutes long! The podcast features comedy and funny music, as well as commercial takeoffs, features such as Berger and Prescott and A Minute More, the celebrity birthdays and today in history feature, and more! ![]() ![]() "From out of the cave at the foot of Sunset Cliffs, the thundering hoofbeats pound with a hearty Hi Ho Sylvia Away! The O.B. Ranger rides again! The O.B. Ranger and his trusty sidekick, Indian, riding his swift pinto named Ford, embark on another moonlight mission, raiding the dwellings of Ocean Beach, in search of...illegal and mytherious goings-on!" Gary Allyn, Neil Ross, and supporting cast ride in 54 adventures of The Adventures of The O.B. Ranger. This series ran on local radio in the early 70s when FM radio was still in the underground stages and AM was still king of the airwaves. The re-mixed and re-packaged original "Adventures of the O.B. Ranger, Volume 1" as heard in the early 1970's on XHIS (now XHITZ 90.3 FM) has been offered CD since 1999. For more on the O.B. Ranger, click here for The O.B. Ranger on SDN |
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