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Monday, January 22, 2007
Colorado Media Matters: KCOL's "Keith and Gail" distorted news reports, federal findings on global warming
Colorado Media Matters: KOA- Beauprez: Executing war opponents would be "good old Western justice"
Salzman: Little touches add a lot in reporting
Rocky Mountain News, CO - On Wednesday, Caplis' co-host, Craig Silverman, joked about Caplis being on the front page of the Post, as the two discussed his potential candidacy on the ...
Limits on rising state revenues
Denver Post, CO - The good news didn't stop Independence Institute chief Jon Caldara from drenching his anti-Ref. C crying towel again while complaining, "How big is the ...
Littwin: Higher ed needs Brown - and a miracle
Rocky Mountain News, CO - Yes, and I can see Jon Caldara clutching his chest now - and also his wallet. This is not a one-year task. It will take time. It will take leadership by ...
John McCain Panders To Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson And James Dobson
Men's News Daily, CA - In an interview last Thursday with a Dallas Christian station, Focus on the Family's James Dobson said the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law has
Why Radio Industry Contests Go Bust
Audio Graphics, OH - We're not going to labor over the water-drinking contest fiasco that's swallowing Entercom's 40 KDND. A woman died, the company is distraught (along with ...
When will reality TV, radio pranks run their course?
Fresno Bee (subscription), CA - Everyday in America, radio disc jockeys find ways to embarrass some of their listeners and the participants seem to gobble it up. ...
It's the Talent, Stupid
MEDIAWEEK - The major radio operating companies (Clear Channel, CBS, Cumulus, Citadel etc....) need to be doing much more if they wish to remain a significant part of ...
Clear Channel Exits 17 More Markets
Media Buyer Planner, MD - Clear Channel is exiting 17 more radio markets with the sale of all its stations in each market. The company has undertaken an initiative to sell a total of ...
Unclear LBO Path for Clear Channel
Barron's (subscription) - In contrast, public radio operators Emmis Communications (EMMS), Cumulus Media (CMLS) and Cox Radio (CXR) are valued at 10 to 11 times projected 2007 cash ...
CC To Merge RCS & Prophet Systems
Streaming Magazine, FL - Clear Channel has announced the merger two of its technology units, RCS and Prophet Systems. Philippe Generali, president/CEO of RCS will lead the combined ...
Limbaugh on Obama: "If he's got fire in his hands, what has he got ...
Media Matters for America, DC - Barack Obama's (D-IL) smoking, Rush Limbaugh said: "If he's got fire in his hands, what has he got in his pants?" Earlier, Limbaugh had played an audio ...
Rush to exit WJBC
WJBC News, IL - Radio Bloomignton General Manager Red Pitcher announced this afternoon the syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show will air for the last time March 2, 2007. ...
Limbaugh court? Don't rush to judge
Chicago Tribune, IL - New legislation, hailing Rush Limbaugh Sr. as "a great hero of American jurisprudence," was reintroduced in both chambers this month. ...
Bill O'Reilly, Super-Genius
CounterBias.com - For a full decade now, Bill O'Reilly has been living out—in public—the greatest impersonation of a knee-jerk right-winger since Senator McCarthy waved his ...
O'Reilly, NBC smackdown is good for TV ratings
Sacramento Bee, CA - A war of words between Bill O'Reilly and NBC has erupted into a shouting match that is overheated, mean-spirited and incredibly entertaining. ...
Just another fair and balanced Friday on the O'Reilly Factor
News Hounds, CA - He put up a graphic of the words of Newsday's Verne Gay: "Bill O'Reilly has no sense of humor. never has. never will... Doubtless, O'Reilly will blame this ...
Who's Looking Out For Kids? Bill O'Reilly, That's Who
Radar Online, NY - After his image-scrubbing joint-appearances with Stephen Colbert last night, Bill O'Reilly went right back to doing what he does best: contradicting himself ...
O'Reilly bio may surprise fans and foes
amNewYork, New York - 'Oh, a book about Bill O'Reilly.' 'Oh, yuck, why would you write about him?' Even my wife would just hear his voice (on the TV) and walk out of the room." ...
Olbermann on O'Reilly: "Why does (he) still have a job?"
Media Matters for America, DC - On the January 18 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann attacked Fox News host Bill O'Reilly for comments he made regarding the kidnapping of ...
Sean Hannity Stunningly Ignorant On Border Patrol Case
News Hounds, CA - Finally, after three segments of guests seeking a pardon for two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a drug smuggler in the buttocks, ...
Therapy Without a License Should Be A Crime: Talk-Radio Offers ...
Huffington Post, NY - "I was (fill in Sean Hannity anecdotal experience) and I turned out pretty good," or "if I were that eleven-year-old I would have (fill in Bill O'Reilly ...
The Reason Why
Human Events, DC - by Michael Reagan. The media is beside itself trying to understand why Shawn Hornbeck, the youngster kidnapped four-and-a-half years ago, remained a captive ...
The worst of those we've seen, heard
Montclarion, CA - Most Loathsome Local AND National Radio Personality: Marin-based, nationally syndicated radio hatemonger Michael Savage -- miscarried here on KNEW. ...
Glenn Beck on the edge
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 3 radio show in America. It can be heard locally at 10 am on 104.7 FM. Probably that he says out loud what most of his listeners think. ...
Combating the self-loathing left
WorldNetDaily, OR - When gifted talk-radio host Laura Ingraham went to Iraq, she was treated to condescension and ridicule from the media and war critics. ...
Muslim in Congress? Framers of Constitution would approve
American Muslim, MO - One might imagine that talk-show radio host Dennis Prager and outspoken Rep. Virgil Goode (R., Va.), who have been waxing hysterical about the prospect of ...
The 11/7 Republicans
Town Hall, DC - Hugh Hewitt has authorized me to extend an invitation to Senator Smith to appear on his radio show. Hugh and I both hope the Senator accepts.
Hearne Christopher Jr.
Kansas City Star, MO - As in missing-in-action radio shrink Dr. Laura Schlessinger. The syndicated radio show for people who prefer their emotional healing delivered the ...
The War Comes Home to Air America
Huffington Post, NY - Thursday morning the war in Iraq came crashing home for the staffers and former staffers of AIr America Radio. We learned that a wonderful friend and much ...
The End of Press Freedom in America
Blogcritics.org, OH - For every enormously profitable hour of Rush Limbaugh and his millions of listeners which a station carries it would have to broadcast an hour of Al Franken ...
SNL Alumnus Thinks Seriously About Senate
WTOV9.com, OH - WASHINGTON -- Al Franken wonders if a man known for comedy and satire can be taken seriously as a political candidate. Comedian Al Franken wonders if a man ...
Column: Conservative talk disappears unnoticed in Monroe County
The Tomah Journal, WI - So, how did Air America jump into talk radio? With Limbaughesque bluster. Take, for instance, Randi Rhodes, a typical Air America host. ...
Ed Schultz returning to KFGO
In-Forum (subscription), ND - Ed Schultz is returning to KFGO radio and Rush Limbaugh is leaving, the station's new owner says. Schultz, 52, plans to return to the Fargo station Feb. ...
FCC's Martin Hints At Nixing A Sirius, XM Merger
MEDIAWEEK - The Federal Communications Commission sent a strong signal to Wall Street that it would likely prevent a merger between Sirius Satellite Radio and XM ...
Judge: Lawsuit Against XM May Proceed
Washington Post, DC - NEW YORK -- A lawsuit in which record companies allege XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. is cheating them by letting consumers store songs can proceed toward ...
Papadakis serves up quality radio
Long Beach Press-Telegram, CA - It was a good fit and a compliment to Papadakis' talent considering the names that have used KROQ as an entr e to bigger things - Adam Corolla, ...
'Hold Your Wee for a Wii' Ends in Tragedy and Legal Action
Radio World, VA - A wrongful death lawsuit was expected in the death of Jennifer Strange, a mother of three who died hours after a water-drinking contest at an Entercom radio ...
New MOJO format pays off in ratings
Cincinnati Enquirer, OH - Radio One's $5 million purchase of the "MOJO" call letters and intellectual property from Cumulus' "Jammin' Oldies" 94.9 has paid off instantly. ...
Finebaum Switches Radio Station
WSFA, AL - His three-year deal with Clear Channel Communications, which paid about $350000, plus bonuses, expires today. Finebaum could go on the air at WJOX as early ...
Clear Channel launches two interactive radio stations
Inside Bay Area, CA - IF A RADIO LOVER were featured on MTV's "Pimp My Ride," his or her car would look very much like the two Scion xBs that Clear Channel's new eChannelMusic ...
Christian radio is having an impact on guerrillas
Mission Network NEws (press release), Grand Rapids - However, Christian radio appears to be having an impact on the hearts and lives of some of the guerrillas who are living in the jungle. ...
Community radio stations have hard time battling corporations
WMC-TV, TN - Rural areas once served by "hometown" radio stations are losing ground to big companies -- aided, in part by a licensing process that goes to the highest ...
Former KSTP radio host O'Connell dies
Pioneer Press, MN - Former KSTP-AM 1500 radio broadcaster Mark O'Connell died this morning of a fast-spreading melanoma that was diagnosed Dec. 29, friends and family said. ...
'Neth FM' to bring listeners back to radio
Sunday Times.lk, Sri Lanka - Neth, a new FM Channel with a vision of bringing the listeners back to radio has won the hearts of over a million listeners within a short peroid of time. ...
Moldova censorship: Critical radio station still off the air
Tiraspol Times & Weekly Review, Moldova - For more than a month, listeners in Moldova have not been allowed to hear the leading Antena C radio station. The broadcaster was silenced by the Moldovan ...
Therapy Without a License Should Be A Crime: Talk-Radio Offers ...
Huffington Post, NY - You can count on most any talk radio discussion of behavior rights and wrongs, especially child-rearing, to include the host's intense background work on ...
Brucie Bumchuckles ready to sign off radio
Winona Daily News, MN - Bumchuckles, who graduated from Winona State University, worked on the fledgling independent radio station KQAL in Winona. ...
Michigan radio listeners send Arby's, mom to GI in Germany
WLNS, MI - He couldn't come home for the holidays, so the host of an Ann Arbor radio station wanted to help his stepmother bring him a taste of home. ...
American Idol Inspires Radio Talk Show
HappyNews.com, TX - American Idol Rumors birthed the American Idol Rumors Radio Show, an interactive radio show every night, 30 min after the American Idol show we begin our ...
Radio ads target Latino mothers
The Capital Times, WI - The ads will be aired in sequence on La Movida Radio (AM 1480), Madison's Spanish-speaking radio station, through July 2007. ...
Satellite's Head Start 'Good' for HD Radio?
Radio World, VA - "With radio giant Clear Channel recently launching a new digital partnership with Microsoft, is this the year that HD Radio will take off in the United ...
Some ideas for improving talk radio in Boston
SalemNews.com, MA - I'm not necessarily paying attention to the radio, but my subconscious usually tells me when a subject I need to hear comes up; or someone calls to say, ...
