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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Colorado Media Matters: KHOW's Caplis continued attacking Obama over African clothing photo, claiming an analogy with bin Laden's garb
Colorado Media Matters: Hosting DeLay, KOA's Rosen falsely claimed that Republicans hold only one statewide office in Colorado
At WCCO, Leigh is off to Denver (CBS 4) and Shelby is back in the saddle
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - The WCCO-TV anchor, who also has a WCCO-AM radio show, had a transitory blockage in his brain that temporarily affected his speech on a recent show. ...
Karen Leigh joins KCNC
Denver Post, CO - As predicted, WCCO Minneapolis anchor Karen Leigh was named co-anchor of KCNC-Channel 4 with Jim Benemann, starting in April. She succeeds Molly Hughes, ...
CBS names Leigh primetime news anchor
Rocky Mountain News, CO - Recent reports had suggested Leigh, the morning show anchor for WCCO in Minneapolis since 2004, would replace Molly Hughes. But CBS officials didn't confirm ...
KCNC-TV switching newscasts to high-def
Bizjournals.com, NC - Denver's KCNC-TV said Wednesday it will begin presenting its newscasts in high definition starting April 21, making the CBS-owned station the second in the ...
Free 'Love
Cincinnati CityBeat, OH - Within weeks, radio stations in Denver, Austin, San Diego and Kansas City had all gotten behind the unusual promotion -- corporate sponsors helped absorb ...
Parents Tell of Church Shooter's Anguish
The Associated Press - ... he was about to explode in violence, they said in an interview to be broadcast Thursday and Friday on James Dobson's Focus on the Family radio program. ...
Huckabee "Eggs" on Conservatives in Colorado
RH Reality Check, DC - James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family . While Huckabee's endorsement is being ballyhooed in the press as a boon to the ballot measure, ...
John McCain vs. Radio Host Bill Cunningham
National Ledger, AZ - Under media pressure, John McCain has apologized because radio talk-show host Bill Cunningham opened a McCain rally by noting that Barack Obama’s full name ...
McCain/Cunningham split matters
Cincinnati Enquirer, OH - It was a shaky and extraordinarily brief marriage – the coming together of John McCain’s presidential campaign and radio talk show host Bill Cunningham. ...
'Hannity & Colmes' Exclusive: Bill Cunningham on Obama Comments
FOXNews - BILL CUNNINGHAM, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: At some point in the near future, the media, the stooges from The New York Times; CBS, the Clinton Broadcasting ...
Far right rejects McCain after Obama apology
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Right-wing firebrand Rush Limbaugh also questioned why McCain would apologise for Cunningham's remarks, and asked why it's inappropriate for Cunningham to ...
McCain apology angers conservative host
CNN - McCain has drawn criticism from other conservative voices, including radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt and Lars Larson. ...
Bronson: McCain spanks talk radio
Cincinnati Enquirer, OH - This has been a bad year for pundits, and worse for talk radio. Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh and lower wattage hosts have been throwing ...
Everything Bad About America in Two Words; Bill Cunningham
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - "Only Democrats, Air America, New York Times, talk-show hosts and newspaper reporters have freedom of speech," he proclaimed. "I have the right to speak my ...
The gospel truth: WLIB seeks to add more talk
New York Daily News, NY - When WLIB dropped its Air America affiliation and switched to gospel in 2006, it drew strong criticism from people who wanted a talk format. ...
Former Producer of Nationally Syndicated Bill Press Show Joins ...
Emediawire (press release), WA - King comes to SRS from the nationally syndicated Bill Press Radio Show, where he served as both producer and sidekick for the popular progressive talk show ...
02-27-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE
Eurweb.com, CA - *The Tom Joyner Morning Show and the NAACP National Voter Fund have partnered to launch 1-866-MYVOTE1 as part of a year-long voter registration, ...
President Reagan’s son: Father no flip-flopper
SalemNews.net, OH - Michael Reagan is now a successful talk show host on the nationally syndicated Radio America network, which was founded by Columbiana County native James C. ...
Hillary, just quit.
YourHub.com, CO - One such host is Ed Schultz who called Bill Clinton a liar on cable news. He was right. And once again the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is ...
Our 50-50 political world
USA Today - Nationally syndicated radio talk host Michael Medved is the author of Right Turns and The Shadow Presidents. He is also a member of USA TODAY's board of ...
Glenn Beck’s Hospital Experience Is a Dire Warning, Not a Joke
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) - The dire consequences of political commentator Glenn Beck’s surgery to remove eight hemorrhoids included suicidal thoughts as well as a bad trip he believes ...
SJSU students, legal and illegal, plan grass-roots voter ...
San Jose Mercury News, USA - ... Relief and Education for Alien Minors (or DREAM) Act, prompting conservative radio host Michael Savage to suggest they starve to death. ...
FOX News Pollster Frank Luntz Uses Focus Group To Perpetuate Obama ...
News Hounds, CA - Sean Hannity took it a step further by "just asking," in so many words, whether Obama's wife and pastor are black racists. With video. ...
Dennis Miller and Bill O'Reilly Flatter Barack Obama
News Hounds, CA - O'Reilly and Miller had only flattering words for Barack Obama tonight while Hillary Clinton was humiliated as usual. Miller told O'Reilly that Obama has ...
Bill O'Reilly: "No Difference Between (Arianna) Huffington, Nazis ...
Huffington Post, NY - Even Bill O'Reilly wouldn't lower himself enough to spew that hateful a stream of slime. "I don't see a difference between (Arianna) Huffington and the ...
Bill O'Reilly is bored with presidential debates
News Hounds, CA - O'Reilly admitted tonight 2/27/08 in his Talking Points Memo that he's tired of Democartic debates, saying he gets it: universal healthcare, ...
Did Global Warming Wipe Out Dinosaurs?
FOXNews - BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Factor Follow-up" segment tonight: Did global warming wipe out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago? And if not, what did? ...
Open Letter: Star Jones Checks Bill O'Reilly's Racist Remark
Blackvoices - By Jawn Murray, BlackVoices.com Its no wonder that when Bill O'Reilly's most recent controversial (see also: racist) comments about Michelle Obama, ...
EUGENE ROBINSON VS. BILL O'REILLY: Columnist angered over Fox News ...
Eurweb.com, CA - *Columnist Eugene Robinson is upset with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly for using the word "lynching" in reference to Michelle Obama and her recent comments ...
William F. Buckley Dies at Age 82
Synthesis, CA - Before there were right wing blowhards like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’ Reilly hamming it up for ratings, there was William F. Buckley–a voice of conservative ...
Bill Buckley
Huffington Post, NY - What a long sad fall from Bill Buckley to Bill O' Reilly. I'm not part of the crowd that says if we can just get along everything will be alright. ...
Dittohead alert: Limbaugh to jump from WWL-AM to WRNO-FM
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - By Dave Walker A fixture at WWL AM-870 for years, syndicated midday talk host Rush Limbaugh will shift to WRNO FM-99.5 on April 1. Rush Limbaugh will shift ...
Buckley reviews and essays
World Magazine, NC - He’s the anti-Rush Limbaugh, as quick with a literary reference as a factual proposition, a real rhetorician. You can skip to the end and leave a response. ...
I Have Some Questions For Tim Russert
Huffington Post, NY - In 2004, you appeared on the Rush Limbaugh radio show and had the following discussion on the air. (I'm holding up the printed transcript Russert-style ...
Stolen winks into the ball-that-knows-all
Boston Globe, United States - Will you provide those things, Rush Limbaugh? Will you get behind John McCain? Lead us out of the wilderness into a new frontier! Come home, Rush. ...
The Angry White Woman Tour Laments the Death of Feminism
RushLimbaugh.com (subscription), CA - He's talking with Katha Pollitt, who is a columnist for The Nation magazine, and Ashbrook says, "Let's remember Rush Limbaugh, wondering if America wants to ...
The Plowboy Interview GARRISON KEILLOR
Mother Earth News, KS - Along with hosting this highly popular public radio show, Garrison Keillor is an established short fiction writer whose works have frequentIv appeared in ...
Better columns, please
Kansas City Star, MO - Garrison Keillor is a sorry substitute, especially as counterpoint to George Will. What Keillor passes off as a political column this week belongs on “A ...
Last Laugh
Mother Earth News, KS - By Garrison Keillor Well sir, I'm right happy to turn over my page this go-round to one of our country's great storytellers — the feller featured in the ...
Next Up for Mr. Seacrest: Peddling Ads for Radio
Wall Street Journal - In a deal with Clear Channel Communications Inc.'s Premiere Radio Networks unit, Mr. Seacrest's five-hour LA radio show will be boiled down to three for use ...
American Idol - Ryan Seacrest could be up for presenter award
MyParkMag, UK - Gary has since phoned into Ryan's LA-based morning radio programme to apologise for the interruption, calling the presenter "an innocent champion of ...
Idol Gets Beatlemania
E! Online - The scoop was served up Wednesday on Idol host Ryan Seacrest's morning radio show in Los Angeles. "It's something we've waited for seven seasons now," Idol ...
Dawn-patrol darlings Ted Long and Amy Robbins have notched nearly ...
Syracuse New Times, NY - ... two out of the four stations in the building are syndicated {Citadel’s WAQX-FM 95.7 (95X) broadcasts the daily Opie and Anthony raunchfest, ...
Rutgers's Stringer Becomes Third Women's Coach With 800 Wins
Bloomberg - Shortly after the title game, Rutgers gained national attention after syndicated radio host Don Imus called its players ``nappy headed hos. ...
Southerner spreads powerful Black History Month message
Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - The show began in the 1920s and became the country's longest-running radio broadcast. Two white actors used their talents to voice dozens of ...
Eric the Midget, Jimmy Kimmel On The Howard Stern Show
So Hood, NY - Howard Stern got Jimmy Kimmel and Eric the Midget on the line to discuss Eric's recent appearance on Jimmy's show. Howard played a clip of Jimmy ...
Satellite radio in limbo as merger stalls
Reuters - He's also wondering what it's going to cost to keep his star talker, Howard Stern, on board. "Great content costs money," Karmazin reminded analysts Tuesday ...
Anti-dwarf-tossing law affects bar's plans
United Press International - 27 (UPI) -- A New York bar may have to change its dwarf-bowling plans with Howard Stern's sidekick Beetlejuice, because of a state law. ...
Right Wing Radio Host Endorses Hillary Clinton Over John McCain
News Hounds, CA - Then they asked another right wing radio host, Mancow on, not to speak about Bill Cunningham, no, he was on to speak about Nanny cams like he was an expert ...
Obama Is Our First Muslim Presidential Contender In The Same Way ...
Pajamas Media, CA - Talk Radio (The Mancow show) called last night and asked me to join them this morning to comment on the Obama-Farrakhan matter. And so I made a dutiful list ...
Pregnancy orgasms (yes, you read that right)
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - ... and all I wanted to do was watch "Entertainment Tonight" on the hospital television because John Tesh's mug was bland enough to be comforting. ...
Celebrity rehab aka publicity stunt
StateHornet.com, CA - It documents the rehab journey of eight celebrities treated by Dr. Drew Pinsky, who is the medical director of the Department of Chemical Dependency ...
Matthews, Carlson, Wolffe "impress(ed)" by McCain's denunciation ...
Media Matters for America, DC - John McCain for his response to radio host Bill Cunningham's repeated references to Sen. Barack Obama as "Barack Hussein Obama" at a February 26 rally for ...
Radio host to speak at event honoring Nuxhall
Hamilton Journal News (subscription), OH - By Michael D. Pitman Bill Cunningham doesn't know why he and Joe Nuxhall started their public verbal jabs with each other, but the 700 WLW talk show host ...
Bill Cunningham Says Mike DeWine Told him to "Throw Some Red Meat"
News Hounds, CA - Remember Bill Cunningham? He's the Ohio radio talk show host who introduced John McCain yesterday while repeatedly referring to Barack Obama as Barack ...
CS looks to sell Clear Channel loans - source
Reuters - VX: Quote, Profile, Research) has made inquiries into selling a share of its loans behind the pending $20 billion buyout of radio operator Clear Channel ...
Clear Channel's Pittsburgh Radio Stations Begin Rollout of ...
Earthtimes, UK - “We view the ActiveAccess application as the final blow to our competition in the market,” said Andy Peacock, Director of Internet Sales, Clear Channel ...
Clear Channel wins bid for speedy trial in suit
Charlotte Observer, NC - Clear Channel Communications Inc., the largest US radio broadcaster, won an order for a speedy trial of its effort to force Providence Equity Partners Inc. ...
Radio hosts aim to be biggest losers
Florida Today, FL - Pssst. Maybe you can't tell when you listen to the radio lately, but a few on-air personalities at Clear Channel radio stations are looking like a bunch of ...
Analyst: CBS Radio Must Outpace Industry To See Growth In '08
Streaming Magazine, FL - President/CEO Les Moonves said in Tuesday's fourth-quarter and full-year 2007 conference call that there will be revenue growth in CBS Radio in 2008, ...
Bob LeMond, Broadcaster, 94
Palisadian-Post, CA - He narrated Lucille Ball's first sitcom on CBS radio, 'My Favorite Husband,' from its debut in 1948 to its close in 1951. He worked again with Ball on the ...
On Radio: Who are contenders for next M's radio contract?
Seattle Post Intelligencer - But what local radio station will be carrying Niehaus' voice? Six years ago Fisher Communications stunned the local sports-radio scene by winning the radio ...
Former Steelers broadcaster Cope passes away
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - Myron Cope, the hall of fame broadcaster who spent more than three decades as the radio color analyst for the Pittsburgh ...
Spearfish radio station raises money for Hill City wrestler
Rapid City Journal, SD - By Andrew Cutler SPEARFISH -- A radio station here is doing its part to help raise funds to help an injured Hill City wrestler. Nate Brown, sports director ...
'Oldies' radio bracket expands one decade
Chicago Tribune, United States - Station executives say the decision makes perfect sense considering radio's changing demographics. Research found that the traditional oldies audience was ...
KMJQ Tops Houston In January; WBEB Keeps Lead In Philly
Streaming Magazine, FL - NEW YORK -- February 27, 2008: Radio One Urban AC KMJQ-FM takes the top slot in the Arbitron Portable People Meter ratings for January with an AQH share of ...
Static in the satellite radio market
CNNMoney.com - NEW YORK (Fortune) -- The stalled merger between satellite radio duo XM and Sirius has suddenly lurched into the unknown as Wall Street continues to wait ...
Sirius Satellite Spent $820K to Lobby
CNNMoney.com - NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. paid Wiley Rein LLP $820000 last year to lobby Washington on its proposed buyout of XM Satellite ...
Illegal radio gives hope to Koreans on both sides of border
CNN - Kim Seong Min, the founder of Free North Korea Radio broadcasting from Seoul. Free North Korea Radio, based in Seoul, South Korea, broadcasts news of the ...
Hayden rebuked for radio outburst over Harbhajan
Independent, UK - Hayden said on the radio: "It's been a bit of a long battle with Harbhajan. The first time I met him, he was the same little obnoxious weed that he is now ...
Houston radio stations will give away Clinton tickets
Houston Chronicle, United States - At least half a dozen radio stations today will begin distributing 750 free tickets to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech Thursday at an energy summit ...
Radio Mirchi hums a refreshing morning raaga for Bangaloreans with ...
exchange4media.com, India - Radio Mirchi has a soothing and therapeutic offering for the early riser. ‘Munjaney Raaga’, its new show which is aired between 5 am and 7 am every day of ...
"Top 50" for Golden West Radio
Discover Moose Jaw, Canada - Golden West Radio, which, of course, includes Moose Jaw radio stations 800 CHAB and Country 100 - 100.7 FM, has once again been recognized as one of ...
Go Ask Alice -- Radio nowhere
Marshfield Mariner, USA - By Alice Coyle I know it’s not my radio station, but I’ve come to think of it that way, having been a loyal listener to WBOS 92.9 FM since my days in ...
Chch's TranSister Radio returns to airwaves
Gay NZ, New Zealand - By GayNZ.com News Staff - 28th February 2008 After eight years off-air, Joanne Clarke and friends from Agender Christchurch are back with TranSister Radio, ...
MusicFIRST Delivers Artists' Radio Royalty Petition to Congress
Wired Blogs - US stations haven't to pay royalties to recording artists and labels in the past because radio play was thought to drive album and ticket sales. ...
