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Tuesday January 6, 2009 Longtime El Paso talk radio host Paul Strelzin announced on the air Monday that his afternoon program on KHRO 1150 (AM) is ending - "Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of continuing his employment because corporate mandated budget cuts," said David Candelaria, Entravision's general manager (read more - Ramón Rentería - El Paso Times) The smooth, friendly and rich sound of host Al Malmberg's voice on WCCO Radio has been silenced before he ever got a chance to say goodbye to his listeners of 12 years. Malmberg, 57, was fired last week in the latest in a series of cost-cutting measures taken by the CBS-owned station and by other media outlets in the Twin Cities and elsewhere around the country (read more - Paul Walsh - Star-Tribune) Clear Channel Communications, which today owns some 900 radio stations across America, bought 91X in 1999; the company moved the station to Granite Ridge Road in 2005, “and it changed overnight,” Chris Cantore says. “Suddenly there were too many cooks in the kitchen.” He says that “We” - including his good friend Hilary Chambers, another local veteran, canned this June from another Clear Channel holding - “just got lost in a sea of white walls and cubicles. And policies that were like - What? I was asked to talk about a car wash, some new sales program. You get all these programs forced on you. ‘Here’s a new policy; we’re doing this every Friday; all the stations in the entire cluster are going to do Coupon Fridays’ (read more - Thomas Larson - San Diego Weekly Reader) Dennis Miller, who was bumped from WOR (710 AM), can now be heard on WNYM (970 AM) which means Mike Gallagher is now heard 9-11 a.m. and Dennis Prager 1-3 p.m (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) Clear Channel Radio’s Total Traffic Network is the first company to launch real time traffic services over HD Radio channels delivering updated traffic information with over 500 messages per minute, live and operational in 50 markets Steve Barnes, former 99X and Dave FM morning host and actor/producer, is about to start production on a new local TV series called “High Rise,” which he said will be a bit like “Melrose Place” but less campy (read more - Rodney Ho - Atlanta JC) Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show this week PC makers are sending a distinct message: The sub-$1,000 laptop is the new $2,000 laptop. Meanwhile, the push to merge the netbook and notebook categories is well underway (read more - Larry Dignan - ZD Net) While FCC Commissioner Michael Copps during his visit here last month estimated that 20% of Milwaukeeans aren't plugged in, lots of folks have already used those coupons to buy converter boxes that will keep their old sets working after the shutdown of analog TV broadcasting. Some of them have discovered new problems. A Wautoma reader notes that he gets analog TV from Green Bay, Wausau and sometimes even Milwaukee and Madison (read more - Tim Cuprisin - Milwaukee JS) San Diego,
Cleveland and New York radio icon, and RDN
Country Radio Broadcasters is reminding folks that the advanced rate registration deadline for CRS-40 is Thursday, Jan. 15
News Burps Talk radio is stuffy, boring, old and tired. Otherwise, it's great, right? No balls. By the way, young people don't like old blowhards talking about politics or their bigoted ways. So even this strategy will dry up as each year goes by. Sorry, but you've got to have the next generation if you're going to be a growth industry. No getting around it. Now the "CEOs-Who-Will-Not-Be-Denied" are hell bent to do the same thing to music radio. They have this idea that Ryan Seacrest will work in just about any market. Hey, I don't buy it. LA - yes. You're stretching beyond. But they are not going to stop at Ryan Seacrest (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Last week's announcement that iPhones will be available in Wal-Mart stores changes the game, as the marketing rapidly moves from elite to mass. iPhones have been on sale at Best Buy, but now Wal-Mart's footprint changes everything (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) While Kevin Martin closes out his final major tour of the U.S. like a diva, the future FCC is getting closer to becoming a reality. The first FCC commissioner to leave was Deborah Taylor Tate who resigned December 30th. I hope Martin is lining up his next job because he will be replaced as FCC Chairman and the betting is that Obama Harvard bud Julius Genachowski will get the nod (read more - Mel Phillips) Ann Coulter was interviewed by CBS Morning Show's Harry Smith and they had words (view the video - CBS News) The VW Ad That May Be Too Violent for Britain: UK Ad Authorities Are Now Investigating Whether "The Fight" Is Too Rough (read more - view the ad - Matthew Creamer - Ad Age) Sohio was a major
radio and television advertiser and radio stations,
WMMS
among them, used a special
No longer carried on XM Radio, the Midnight Trucking Radio Network (MTRN) has expanded listening option for truckers through live streaming on the iPhone - "We feel this is a very cutting edge option for our new generation of drivers," said Eric Harley, co host of MTRN. "More and more truckers are buying this new technology to listen to their favorite shows such as iPods/MP3 players and the new iPhone - "We also feel very strongly that truckers should have numerous means of hearing our content free of charge only. With truckers fighting to make payments and stay in business, adds Gary McNamara, co host of MTRN; MTRN needs to focus on all free means possible for their listeners to pick up the show (read more - MTRN) Laura Ingraham has joined the WBAL evening lineup (read more - Baltimore Biz Journal) Bret Baier, who took over Fox's Washington newscast last night - formerly anchored by Brit Hume, dutifully declares that he will gradually put his own "stamp" on the program (read more - Howard Kurtz - Washington Post) Next Monday, 1050 ESPN New York (WEPN-AM) will expand its afternoon drive The Michael Kay Show by one hour, weekdays 2 - 7 pm and named the program's long-time talent, Don La Greca, as co-host The New England unit of Entercom Communications Corp. said today that it has re-signed WEEI Sports Radio host Glenn Ordway to a new multi-year contract (read more - Boston Globe) CBS television station exec Don Corsini moves crosstown to rival KTLA-TV Channel 5, becoming general manager and president of the Tribune-owned station (read more - Meg James - LA Times) Long-time Houston radio disc jockey Ronnie Renfrow launched Classic Cool Radio, 650 AM (read more - Brittanie Shey - Houstonist) CNN’s chief business correspondent kick starts the new year with a weeklong series “The Ali Velshi Show: Gimme My Money Back” which is available for CNN Radio affiliates today and continuing through Friday, Jan 9 HD Radio has a great presence at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas at Booth 9034 in the Central Hall - iBiquity is making two announcements today at CES that show HD Radio technology entering into a new category (real-time traffic) and highlighting the growing breadth and depth of products now available at market Dr. Robert A. Eisenbeis, Monetary Economist for Cumberland Advisors, will serve as a keynote speaker at Responding to Change, the 2009 annual conference for the Media Financial Management Association (MFM), its BCCA subsidiary and the Interactive & Newsmedia Financial Executives (INFE). The conference will be held at The Westin Peachtree Plaza, in Atlanta, Georgia, from May 12 to 14 ABC News Radio
Entertainment Correspondent
David
The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show, adds its new affiliates, KFNN AM in Phoenix AZ, KWKA AM in Clovis NM, and WQMR FM in Snow Hill MD On February 2, ABC Radio's The Mark Levin Show will expand from two hours to include an available third hour of content The Conclave’s first Webinar of 2009 - “Can't We All Just Get Along? Why Sales and Programming Fight and What You Can Do About It.” with Lindsay Wood Davis and Holland Cooke - will explore and explain the reasons behind the age-old conflict between the most important departments in your radio station and the ways to use it to your advantage on January 21st. Required pre-registration is available for free at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/180737230 KTRB 860 is the new home of the Oakland A's (read more - Big Vinny) (read more - SF Chronicle) Monday January 5, 2009 The radio airwaves above Greenville, Massachusetts come alive again Monday. On Jan 5, Jim Aaron of WGLM will make his first 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. morning show broadcast live from Greenville's new hometown local radio station - “Radio burps, it cries, it needs to be fed all the time, it requires constant attention,” Aaron said. “But we love it” (read more - Frank Konkel - Ionia Sentinel Standard) "People say they never confuse me with anyone else," Joe Easingwood says in a less penetrating version of his on-air voice following a recent C-FAX broadcast. Now heading into his 55th year on-air, with 13,000 broadcast days under his belt -- more than any broadcaster he can think of -- does he have any desire to turn off the microphone? Zero. He's the first to admit he's "just too nosy to quit" (read more - Victoria Times-Colonist) I’ve been trying to figure out if this HD Radio thing is for real or not. About a year ago my old car radio died, and Best Buy sold me an Insignia replacement with an HD Radio chip for $40 extra. Because I knew that that one-time cost would be it, and I could listen to HD for free, I decided it was worth a splurge (read more - Aaron Barnhart - KC Star) McHenry Taylor Tichenor Sr., radio broadcasting pioneer and a developer of the Hispanic radio industry in the United States and the man behind a dream to bring a National Football League franchise to the Rio Grande Valley, died Saturday. In a $3.1 billion deal in 2004 HBC merged with Univision Communications (read more - Gabriel Saldana - Brownsville Herald) From Claude Hall
-- More than likely, there
were about a hundred men and women who caused Top 40 to come about
and flourish. Some of these
may have been a little more important than others. Hard to say. Some
have
AP reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has a hormonal imbalance that is causing him to lose weight (read more - WSJ) Country Radio Broadcasters is currently accepting applications for the 2009 Radio Humanitarian and Promotion Awards to be given at CRS-40, held March 4-6 It was an exceedingly difficult year for many top Chicago advertising agencies - and '09 looks no better (read more - Lewis Lazare - Chicago Sun-Times) The demise of Milwaukee's heritage FM station, WKTI, led a year of change that hit local radio pretty hard, with familiar on- and off-air personnel losing their jobs. WKTI died in early November, replaced by a station that stressed music over personality, WLWK-FM (94.5). Among the losses was one of Milwaukee radio's most talented voices, Jim "Lips" LaBelle, who as of year's end had not landed a new gig. One survivor is Mathew Blades who'll do afternoons on WLWK (read more - Tim Cuprisin - Milwaukee JS) Sports radio talk show host Charles "Scott" McKinney will serve at least a year and a day in prison for bilking investors out of more than $100,000. McKinney pleaded guilty Friday to nine counts of theft and one count each of organized fraud, money laundering and racketeering, prosecutor Russ Edgar said (read more - Tom McLaughlin - NW Florida News) (read more - Pensacola News Journal) The Arbitron Winter 2009 Station Name Preview has been mailed to radio stations within the diary markets that Arbitron measures during the Winter 2009 Survey The worse part, David G. Hall said, is going through the layoffs. "It is unbelievably painful. I have been in management 25 years and I have been through budget cuts and layoffs before. We had to let go some very talented people." Reflecting on KNX, he said, "I am really proud of where I leave it. It has been a long journey. The ratings did go down at first, but I took it back and now it is at a higher level – not just flat, it is up, with very little marketing and good, strategic programming by (news director) Julie Chin," he said (read more - Gary Lycan - OC Register) Hippie Radio, created by broadcast veteran Tony Richards and designed to appeal to baby boomers between the ages of 45 and 60 has chosen RadioLinx to represent the company’s syndicated format Ted Robinson has formally become the new radio play-by-play voice of the SF 49'ers (read more - Big Vinny) From Tommy Kramer
-- Many Programmers still believe the old adage, “If YOURE having
fun, THEY’RE having fun.” This is TOTALLY WRONG. If you appear to be
News Burps "With a face for radio and a waist for sumo," Ben Hamper introduces himself on-air as host of "Soul Possession" which runs from 9 to 11 p.m. every Friday on Northwestern Michigan College's WNMC. He also hosts a jazz program titled "Further Along" from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sundays (read more - Tom Carr - Traverse City Record-Eagle) Clear Channel is holding that much-dreaded managers meeting in Dallas tomorrow and Wednesday. It promises to be the most non-productive, morale busting gathering ever. Only the GMs are invited this year (yeah, yeah -- to save money). No Sales Managers. Those buyout buddies who bought the company at Lee & Bain (also known as Lee Insane) have decided that sales isn't that important. How do I know this? (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Please explain to me the difference between the U.S.S.R.’s politburo summoning its union republic leaders to the Kremlin in Moscow for procedural dictates and Clear Channel summoning its 250 general managers to Dallas tomorrow and Wednesday for the same. Hear me out. The likenesses are worthy of note (read more - John Gorman) Sanyo has one-upped HD Radio with a stand-alone unit that combines FM and Internet radio signals. Top that, HD Radio! The Sanyo R227 also has an ethernet jack for use with a computer. It’s a clock radio if you choose to put it beside your bed. It won’t toast your bread or brew your coffee but can be used in the kitchen or any other room (read more - Mel Phillips) Here's the FitchRatings forecast: "Radio has no unionized workforces, and convert a higher percentage of EBITDA to free cash flow giving them more cushion to endure the secular challenges." While they predict that radio listeners could continue to decrease, they also note that pricing could actually improve. They also see some light at the end of the tunnel with Internet streaming and HD Radio (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Don Zeman, "America´s Home Improvement Expert" of the Homefront show, died suddenly while on vacation. The 55 years old Zeman was host of "Homefront with Don Zeman", heard each Saturday morning in more than 300 markets across the U.S. and Canada where his trademark was "Grab Your Tools, You Can Do This Stuff!" (read more - LA Chronicle) Fox News Channel expressed regret Friday for allowing a viewer message insulting President-elect Barack Obama to be shown during its New Year's Eve coverage. A message from "Jen and John C" aired as part of the crawl at the bottom of the screen read: "Let's hope the Magic Negro does a good job" (read more - Michael Saul - NY Daily News) The consumer electronics radio show, Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline, internationally syndicated by TalkShowsUSA, will be celebrating its 14th Anniversary at the Consumer Electronics Show that gets underway this week in Las Vegas |
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Special
Contributor
sounder
when the temperature dropped below a certain temperature to provide
a special weather update, mentioning how Sohio gas “prevents fuel
line freeze-ups” with the close “You go or Sohio pays your tow”
Blaustein
interviewed fitness guru
Richard Simmons about his new
exercise DVD “Party off the Pounds”
