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Monday, June 23, 2008
Colorado Media Matters: Oliver let Allard staffer discuss Weld County issues without noting he's a candidate for county office
Colorado Media Matters: Independence Institute's Caldara again used public broadcasting to dispense mill levy misinformation
Colorado Media Matters: "Gunny" Bob scorned Democrats but not GOP, administration figures who back removing Mandela from terrorist lists
Thousands show pride
Rocky Mountain News, CO - By noon, so many people had posed for pictures that the booth's sponsor, radio station KKZN-AM (760), had run out of the make-believe wedding rings. ...
Jones International radio unit sold
Bizjournals.com, NC - Radio-syndication company Jones Media Group -- a unit of Jones International Ltd. -- has been sold to Triton Media Group as another step in Denver investor ...
Media group buys Jones companies
Rocky Mountain News, CO - By David Milstead, Rocky Mountain News (Contact) Denver-based cable pioneer Glenn R. Jones has sold his radio-syndication companies to Triton Media Group, ...
SALZMAN: Let's hear more from the candidates
Rocky Mountain News, CO - Jay Marvin told the Boulder Daily Camera that the only reason he had Jared Polis on his AM-760 talk radio show June 13 was because federal rules mandate ...
TABOR back on court's plate
Denver Post, CO - "I'm not certain the Supreme Court has ever been kind to TABOR," said Jon Caldara, president of the Golden-based Independence Institute, a free-market think ...
Midyette’s trial to be held in Jeffco
Daily Camera, CO - “Jefferson County is a tough place for a criminal defense attorney to win,” said Craig Silverman, a defense lawyer who was also a prosecutor for 16 years. ...
Unite to begin pilot partnership with Focus on the Family
Appalachian News-Express, KY - By Carrie Moore Staff Writer A recent meeting between Operation Unite and Focus on the Family has stemmed a first-of-its-kind partnership between the two ...
Ask Congress to Protect Talk Radio
CitizenLink, CO - On today's Focus on the Family Action radio broadcast, Dr. James Dobson calls on family advocates to protect the airwaves. Congressional Democrats have ...
Court's Gay Marriage Ruling Will Test Paterson's Policy
New York Sun, United States - ... by prominent evangelical Christians, including the evangelists William Bright, D. James Kennedy, and the president of Focus on the Family, James Dobson.
Comedian George Carlin dead at 71
NEWS.com.au, Australia - ... radio broadcast of the routine ultimately reached the US Supreme Court. In the 1978 case, Federal Communications Commission versus Pacifica Foundation, ...
Hah, Hah: Sen. Al Franken
U.S. News & World Report, DC - Should funnyman Al Franken prevail in his race for a US Senate seat in Minnesota, the win would be one for the history books. Betty Koed, an assistant ...
Too Serious About Satire
Washington Post, United States - While accusing US Senate candidate Al Franken of Minnesota of being vulgar, Michael Gerson referred to "Porn-O-Rama!" -- an article written by Mr. Franken ...
9/11 QUESTIONS STILL SMOLDERING OVERSEAS
OpEdNews, PA - Fujita has also spoken about his 9/11 doubts on two US radio shows, one hosted by Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, and another by Alex Jones of ...
Flying Tigers Roar into Long Beach
Sail World, Australia - Radio celebrity talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger has purchased hull number 80 and is scheduled to compete for her first time on the new boat. ...
Abrams Defends Michelle Obama With McCain's 'I Really Didn't Love ...
NewsBusters - LARS LARSON, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: I‘ll tell you how it‘s different. I think there is a different context. Michelle Obama is an amazingly, ...
If 'The Media' Dislike Hillary, How Do They Feel About Those ...
Yahoo! News - Larry Elder is a syndicated radio talk show host and best-selling author. His latest book, "Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card — and Lose," is ...
Arrest Michael Reagan for Inciting Murder
OpEdNews, PA - Michael Reagan has a nationally syndicated Radio Show that airs on Radio America, and for them, purveying hate and deceit is their mainstay to keep up their ...
Justice Is Not Blind , SHE'S BEING HELD AT GUNPOINT by Michael ...
Nolan Chart LLC, VA - And, yes, the likes of Michael Reagan who can make death threats on Radio America and call for the torturous death of babies won't even have his hands ...
Tear down that wall
Xenia Gazette, OH - Michael Reagan, the eldest son of Ronald Reagan, is heard daily by over 5 million listeners via his nationally syndicated talk radio program, “The Michael ...
Neo-Con Rage
Antiwar.com, CA - It’s by Dennis Prager, a California talk-show host who has stood by John Hagee despite McCain’s repudiation, and it can be found here. ...
Glenn Beck OK after tumble
Daily Herald, UT - Glenn Beck, the radio talk show host who's speaking at the Freedom Festival's patriotic service and hosting the Stadium of Fire, took a fall down a flight ...
Ron Paul on CNN: "I haven't accepted the 9/11 investigation".
OpEdNews, PA - Ron Paul being interviewed for the 'CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY' tells the Glenn Beck show "I haven't accepted the 911 investigation". ...
Stephen Colbert Ridicules Hannity
News Hounds, CA - Colbert lampooned "award eligible journalist" Sean Hannity and his over the top edition of last week's Hannity's America. Colbert said, "I don't know where ...
Who Would Be So Low as to Attack a Man's Wife?
Arkansas Indymedia, Arkansas - But the biggest offender, by far, has been Sean Hannity. His unhealthy obsession is noteworthy only in its fixative nature. For his part, Barack has already ...
Baby attack on McCain is childish
Boston Herald, United States - By Bill O’Reilly Have you seen the Baby Alex political ad that the radical-left, George Soros-funded MoveOn.org has produced? ...
Olbermann and O'Reilly Drag General Electric and Rupert Murdoch ...
Gawker, NY - In a throwaway wisecrack at the close of his show, Olbermann compared Fox Blowhard Mascot Bill O'Reilly to Joe McCarthy. By 2006, the two hosts were ...
Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Analyze Michelle Obama's Success ...
News Hounds, CA - Bill O'Reilly went from Baracknaphobia to homophobia during his weekly segment with Bernie Goldberg and Jane Hall, 6/19/08. He devoted one half of the ...
A ‘Confused’ O’Reilly: ‘I Just Want Mayonnaise. I Don’t Want Guys ...
Think Progress, DC - But last night on his Fox News show, Bill O’Reilly found the ad a little too much to handle. Talking with Bernie Goldberg and Jane Hall, O’Reilly confessed ...
Bill O'Reilly: 'I just want mayonnaise! I don't want guys kissing!'
PageOneQ.com - Bill O'Reilly is a little bit outraged, and a little bit confused. His panelists are much less so. The Heinz commercial, airing on British TV, ...
Bill O'Reilly: Double, double, oil and trouble
Post-Bulletin, MN - Veteran TV news anchor Bill O'Reilly is host of the Fox News show "The O'Reilly Factor" and author of the book "Culture Warrior."
Limbaugh to resign from high court at end of July
News-Leader.com, MO - The 56-year-old Limbaugh is a former Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney and circuit judge. He is a cousin of radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Rush's "Operation Chaos" will crush McCain in November
Examiner.com - The last four months was a welcome back to “fifteen minutes of relevancy” for Rush Limbaugh. The king of the talk radio movement of the 1990’s has had a ...
Spanky must have been a Republican
The Columbian, WA - The role of chief female denouncer is played by a man who actually resembles Spanky, Rush Limbaugh. Consider these two realities: Limbaugh detests Hillary ...
Turning a cold shoulder to polar bear truth
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Last month, a bloviating Rush Limbaugh declared that environmentalists are using polar bears as "a cute propaganda pawn to advance their global warming hoax ...
Can Michelle Obama keep it real?
National Post, Canada - And Rush Limbaugh recently repeated an Internet rumour she had used the word "whitey" in a speech from a church pulpit -- a word the Obama campaign says she ...
Best of the Best…Disc Jockey
Albany Times Union, NY - He sounds like a throw-back to radio’s heyday; a guy who could more easily (and entertainingly) have taken over for Casey Kasem than Ryan Seacrest. ...
Clarkson gets shunt from US shock jock
Times Online, UK - NBC, the US broadcaster, has hired an outspoken, fast-talking radio “shock jock” to front the American version of Top Gear. Adam Carolla, a Los ...
Too easily we forgive bad behavior
Deseret News, UT - Then came radio shock-jock Don Imus, who last year hurled racially charged insults toward the Rutgers women's basketball team. It took eight months before ...
'Mike and the Mad Dog' radio show could be history
Newsday, NY - Don Imus, its morning pillar, was fired in April of 2007, and it was not until September that Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton took over the morning drive ...
XM-Sirius merger would stifle Nashville artists' bargaining power
The Tennessean, TN - How did Howard Stern get such a high price from Sirius? Sirius did not want XM to have him. If they were one company, would Howard or any other talent have ...
Barack Obama: Republicans will stoke racial fears to stop first ...
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - He repudiated conservative radio host Bill Cunningham after he repeatedly referred to Mr Obama by including his middle name "Hussein", which came from his ...
Low power to the people
Boston Globe, United States - Clear Channel Communications , for example, owns more than 1200 of them. But how do America's smaller, average-income voices get heard? ...
Live Nation Takes Over Clear Channel's Concerts
All About Jazz, PA - Lawrence Lepore, executive director of the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, first heard that the sale of Clear Channel's concert division had gone ...
'Healthy Kids Day' this Saturday
South Coast Today, MA - Healthy Kids Day activities for kids and grown-ups will include a live broadcast from Radio Disney sponsored by Verizon, a special appearance by Jay and ...
Mike and the Mad Dog, Legendary New York Sports Radio Duo, Could ...
AOL SPORTS, NY - Neil Best of Newsday is reporting that Mike and the Mad Dog, the WFAN radio show in New York that is widely credited with (or blamed for) the rise of sports ...
Steven Davis not ready to replace dad in radio booth
Kansas City Star, MO - By JEFFREY FLANAGAN Steven Davis, son of Royals radio announcer Bob Davis, is obviously on the fast track. Steven, 26, moved up earlier this year from voice ...
Willie firing was standard procedure
Newsday, NY - "I don't think it was cowardly," said Randy Cohen, who considers questions of morality and principle for National Public Radio and the New York Times ...
Radio Time Tuner Lets Listeners Access Syndicated Content
Radio World, VA - The tuner now works for Clear Channel and Cox Radio stations nationwide, content previously only accessible from a desktop using the broadcaster’s own ...
Radio station brings home sounds of South Asia
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - By CARY DARLING Disc jockey Smitha Dixit helms an afternoon show at Desi radio station KZMP/104.9 FM. Star-Telegram/Jeffery Washington IRVING — It all ...
Country station stays on top of Arbitron ratings
The Huntsville Times - al.com, AL - ... Radio Show," WTAK's "John Boy and Billy" and WRTT's "Fish Radio Show." WHRP's "Tom Joyner Show" was seventh, followed by WAHR's "Scott and Dee Dee. ...
May radio ratings - WIP takes big hit, ESPN 950 also down
The Phanatic, PA - The latest Arbitron ratings for May are out and WIP took a huge hit falling from a 3.7 to a 2.8. Cumulative listeners dropped from 668800 to 477, ...
Radio Daze at the FCC
Washington Post, United States - If you see XM and Sirius strictly as satellite radio companies, the idea of the government allowing them to halt their competition and become one more ...
Best: What could be next for “Mike and Mad Dog”
Newsday, NY - The only other local sports talk refuge, 1050 ESPN, theoretically is a possibility, but with a merger of Sirius and XM pending, perhaps satellite radio will ...
Uniradio Turns on HD-R FM in Mexico, Near San Diego
Radio World, VA - Nautel said its V10 HD Radio model has been placed on-air as part of the first commercial FM HD Radio live broadcast operation in that country. ...
Police: 3 hurt in shooting at Juneteenth festival
The Associated Press - Two people were wounded at the WCCO Radio promotional booth. A bullet grazed the ankle of part-time radio promotions employee Mike Kinghorn, 23, ...
Radio awards ‘did not represent black youth’
Dispatch Online, South Africa - Zola, who is popularly known for his straight talk, was contracted by the youth radio station as a guest speaker at the ceremony held at Numbers Dance Club ...
The next head of radio at the BBC will be a crucial choice
guardian.co.uk, UK - I was honoured and somewhat shocked a few weeks ago when I was asked if I would give an outsider's perspective on the radio business at next week's Radio ...
100% Bajan radio station coming
Nation News, Barbados - Both sources stated Rudder's application was considered quite favourably, "Because of his interest in having a 100 per cent local radio station. ...
Uzbekistan attacks Radio Liberty
Times of Central Asia (subscription), Kyrgyzstan - The Uzbek authorities have launched a campaign against the Prague-based Radio Liberty: the country’s National Security Service (SNB) is ready to jam the ...
Local radio loses its roots
Times Online, UK - For two years, he presented a marathon, seven-hour breakfast show for Scarlet FM, Llanelli’s commercial radio station. But instead of sitting in a studio in ...
Midwest radio stations band together to raise money for flood relief
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - If you want to measure just how big the Great Flood of 2008 is, how about a consortium of radio stations working together to raise funds for disaster relief ...
Radio stations collect flood relief for Minn., Iowa
Chicago Tribune, United States - PAUL - Nearly 50 radio stations in a dozen Minnesota cities are teaming up to raise money for flood victims in southern Minnesota and Iowa. ...
National Aboriginal Day special offerings on CBC Radio
CBC.ca, Canada - RADIO 1: An hour of music and comedy with the Almost Ready for Self-Government Players, and special musical guest Shane Yellowbird at 3 pm Recorded live ...
WKBF-AM radio sold to Hispanic broadcasters
Quad City Times, IA - By David Burke | Sunday, June 22, 2008 | WKBF-AM (1270) has new owners, but for the first time in numerous format changes for the Quad-City radio stalwart, ...
Radio anchor Lohle dies
Washington Observer Reporter, PA - AP PITTSBURGH - Steve Lohle, a longtime anchor at Pittsburgh radio station KQV-AM, has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 58. ...
Radio stations celebrate 'World music Day'
RadioandMusic.com, India - Red FM, My FM, Big FM and Radio City are few of the stations who have various interesting interactive initiatives, a mix of on-air talk shows, contests, ...
