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Wednesday, October 22, 2008


Colorado Media Matters: KHOW's Caplis repeated claims about who purportedly "endorsed" Obama
Senatorial candidates spar over economy, negative campaigns
Greeley Tribune, Colorado - Moderator Troy Coverdale, a radio host on KFKA AM radio in Greeley, made use of his open-air experience and ad-libbed, reminding the audience at the Union ...
The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent
Telluride Watch, CO - Primary sponsor of the amendment is the Independence Institute, whose president, Jon Caldara, said, “If the unions want their members’ money, they’re gonna ...
Good News: Love Won Out Celebrates 10th Anniversary
CitizenLink, CO - ... a decade of tremendous outreach to families touched by the issue of homosexuality," said Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family. ...
Good News: Dr. Dobson Talks with Gov. Palin
CitizenLink, CO - Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, made her way across Colorado on Monday. During her trip, she connected with Dr. James Dobson by phone. ...
Dr. Dobson Talks with Gov. Sarah Palin
CitizenLink, CO - (NOTE: Referral to Web sites not produced by Focus on the Family is for informational purposes only and does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of ...
No One Actually Likes the Fairness Doctrine
FOXNews - If you don't know what this is, it's a creepy ploy to "balance" talk radio — meaning creating regulation to offset Rush Limbaugh with an opposing loudmouth. ...
Rachel Maddow, a Web-Savvy Cable Host
New York Times Blogs, NY - When MSNBC announced that Ms. Maddow, a 35-year-old Air America radio host, would anchor the network’s 9 pm hour beginning Sept. ...
Vulgar mockery of Christians: Is this what we want in a US senator?
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - In 2006, (Al Franken) and a guest on his Air America radio show joked about Eucharistic communion wafers -- sacred to Catholics as the body of Christ -- and compared ...
Clinton urges Minn. Democrats to vote Franken
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Hillary Clinton joined US Senate candidate Al Franken at a rally at the University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Center Tuesday afternoon. ...
'Doonesbury' cartoonist in town for Franken fundraiser
MinnPost.com, MN - ... will bring some humor and satire — but not Duke or Rick Redfern — to the St. Paul home of David and Perrin Lilly tonight, for an Al Franken fundraiser. ...
Hardball Gone Mad: Congresswoman Compared to Nazi for Insisting ...
NewsBusters - Or raving left-wing talk show host Mike Malloy (the former CNN news writer!), who wildly associated the conservative Republican with Nazis, ...
Pomeroy, Sand to debate on Ed Schultz Show
Grand Forks Herald, ND - The Ed Schultz Show is broadcast on KFGO-AM 790 and KFYR-AM 550. This is the third debate of the campaign season and the only radio debate. ...
The N-Word Is Flourishing Among Generation Hip-Hop Latinos
Village Voice, NY - He added: "Crazy shit is, my man Reverend Al Sharpton, whenever I see him, he'll be like, 'Wassup Joe, my nigga,' and he's the dude that protests 'my nigga. ...
Toying with dangerous politics
Bethany Beach Wave, DE - Bill Press is author of "Train Wreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon)." Visit billpressshow.com or e-mail him at ...
Steve & Vikki rock the ratings at No. 4
Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - The veteran radio pair, who were dropped from Star 94 last year, came back on soft-rock station B98.5 in July and debuted a solid fourth place among 25- to ...
Madonna's kids in middle of divorce drama
Washington Times, DC - ... marriage and family therapist, author and radio host Laura Schlessinger, aka Dr. Laura, to The Washington Times when asked about Madonna's comments. ...
The Flat Tax Is Not Flat
The New American - and is heavily promoted by radio talk-show personality Neal Boortz. The FairTax would replace with a national sales tax not only the personal income tax, ...
The Other Side: Fairness Doctrine would ‘force’ liberalism on ...
The Post Online, OH - To date, no liberal radio host has approached the success of Limbaugh or other top-rated conservative hosts, including Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. ...
'Factor' Producer Jesse Watters Confronts Former Merrill Lynch CEO
FOXNews - LAURA INGRAHAM, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: NBC had a satellite truck parked outside Joe the plumber's house yesterday. I have a question. ...
Savage on Powell endorsement: "The only people who don't seem to ...
Media Matters for America, DC - During the October 20 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage said, "Do you think Colin Powell came out for BO (Sen. ...
Republicans Fuel Rumor That Obama Is Muslim
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - Conservative talk show host and bestselling author Michael Savage repeated a common myth that Sen. Obama attended a “Madrassa,” a radical Muslim school. ...
Keith Olbermann Talks About Hannity's Relationship With White ...
News Hounds, CA - On last night's Countdown, Sean Hannity was "worser" person in the world for repeatedly saying he was not going to bring up Barack Obama's past drug use ...
“Joe The Plumber” Gets Top Pundit Spot On Hannity & Colmes
News Hounds, CA - Wurzelbacher told a credulous Sean Hannity, ("Obama's) breeding mediocracy (sic) in America.” According to Wurzelbacher, there would be no reason to work. ...
Hannity again denounces Obama for comments later echoed by Defense ...
Media Matters for America, DC - On the October 20 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity suggested Sen. Barack Obama does not "sound like someone that understands our ...
Who is worse: Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh
AllHipHop - Im not a huge fan of rush, or shall i say i dont like him at all, he comes off as a farce and straight up liar, however; i would say that Hannity is on ...
The Fox Network Presents: "The Wasilla Hillbillies"
The Spoof (satire), UK - In a related story, Senator John McCain's campaign manager is denying the rumor that the Fox Network has also approached McCain about taking Sean Hannity's ...
NPR: Shep Smith "Steers Away From Ideology"
Huffington Post, NY - "Who is better at toeing the Republican line than Sean Hannity? I can't even think of anybody right off the top of my head," Smith continued. ...
O’Reilly: NYT Ombudsman Is ‘Blatantly Dishonest’ For Using ‘Far ...
Think Progress, DC - At the time, ThinkProgress noted how Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly — who had previously praised Lichter’s work — criticized the study on his radio show, ...
O'Reilly: You'll Still Have Me to Kick Around
Washington Post, United States - By Howard Kurtz Bill O'Reilly has signed up for another tour of duty at Fox News, saying that he decided "to put myself through all the attacks and smears" ...
Bill O'Reilly signs contract for four more years on Fox News Channel
New York Daily News, NY - The radio show is also heard on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. He also does a shorter commentary segment for about 200 radio stations. O'Reilly's deal with Fox ...
Stan O'Neal Ambushed By Bill O'Reilly
Clusterstock, NY - Last night Fox News loudmouth Bill O'Reilly sent reporters to ambush former Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal as he left his Park Avenue apartment. ...
Mark Halperin defends Rush Limbaugh's Powell/race theory
Salon - Rush Limbaugh correctly points out that he hasn't seen Powell up until now endorse a lot of liberal Democrats for anything, so from Limbaugh's point of view ...
Limbaugh And Giuliani Indirectly Blame 9/11 On President Clinton
Think Progress, DC - Barack Obama (D-IL) with an international crisis if he is elected, right-wing talker Rush Limbaugh and former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani indirectly blamed the ...
Limbaugh mocks Buckley over Obama
The Swamp - Tribune's Washington Bureau, DC - by Frank James Rush Limbaugh took after Christopher Buckley for supporting Sen. Barack Obama. The radio man ridiculed the son of conservative icon William ...
Radio listeners up, ad revenues down
Examiner.com - With the exception of someone like Rush Limbaugh who can successfully push a national sponsor to success, according to our research, people buy from local ...
Powell Endorsement Seen As Major Victory For Obama
U.S. News & World Report, DC - Limbaugh Suggests Race Played Role In Powell's Decision To Back Obama In a blog posting, The Politico reported that Rush Limbaugh said Powell's endorsement ...
New PBS documentary profiles public radio's Garrison Keillor
KUAR, AR - "Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes" is a new 90-minute documentary about the writer and long-time host of A Prairie Home Companion. ...
Palin's candidacy turns election into a 'circus'
Kennebec Journal, ME - Nothing I have read over the past several weeks has offers more insight about the choice of Sarah Palin for the Republican ticket than Garrison Keillor's ...
Paris Hilton Keeps Up with Her Presidential “Campaign”
The Gossip Girls - On Tuesday, she told Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show, “I’d get jobs for people so we can get the economy back on track.” Now that’s the kind of straight ...
Cunningham guest Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson: "(M)ost black people ...
Media Matters for America, DC - Summary: On his radio show, Bill Cunningham asked Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, "(I)f Obama was white as chalk, do you think that (Colin) Powell would be ...
Poor Sad Drudge No Longer King of Information Age
Gawker, NY - For years, one man controlled all the news: Matt Drudge, nutty conservative weather-obsessed Miami queen blogger. He "broke" the Monica Lewinsky thing, ...
Drudge unplugged: How his campaign influence has collapsed
Media Matters for America, DC - Matt Drudge is still doing his loyal best to boost the chances of the GOP down the homestretch in the form of a blizzard of anti-Obama and pro-McCain links ...
Station Raises Money For Joe The Plumber's License
WLAP, KY - "Joe the Plumber" now has enough cash to get that license hes' been working for, thanks to Clear Channel radio station 1190 KEX-AM in Portland, Oregon. ...
Flagler County station buys WROO
Florida Times-Union, FL - WROO has been operated by an independent trust since a group of private equity firms completed its buyout of San Antonio-based Clear Channel in July. ...
Barack Obama Urges Young Black Men to Take Responsibility
MarketWatch - WHAT: US Senator and Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama answers tough, no-holds-barred questions from listeners of Clear Channel Radio ...
Radio's Relationship with Indy Labels See No Change
Radio Online, TX - A year and a half after then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer launched a payola investigation into corporate radio that ended with a consent decree ...
Study: No Change In Indie Radio Airplay
FMQB, NJ - Stemming from Elliot Spitzer’s high-profile payola investigation, the FCC in 2007 signed agreements with four major commercial radio broadcasters (CBS Radio ...
Pete Van Wieren leaving the airwaves
Bizjournals.com, NC - He spent this past season doing radio exclusively for 94.9 the Bull, 640 WGST and the Braves Radio Network, but had been a part of the Braves broadcasts on ...
Tafoya gives up NBA duties
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - She will continue to work on ESPN's "Monday Night Football" package and also will remain a regular on ESPN Radio on Wednesday afternoons Tafoya made her ...
Radio ratings show Honolulu's market changes
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - based Salem Communications Corp. Additionally, KGMZ switched to satellite oldies music programming from the mainland and eliminated the jobs of a handful of ...
George Jones' playhouse is classic country music
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - Jones sets his dial on Sirius and XM satellite radio, where he can hear old-school stars such as Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner and, yes, George Jones. ...
Colombia radio host connects hostages with family
eTaiwan News, Taiwan - For 14 years, Hoyos has hosted "Kidnapped Voices," a radio program for relatives of Colombian kidnap victims to broadcast messages to their loved ones. ...
Radio Actually Gaining Users? Too Bad It Won't Help.
Silicon Alley Insider, NY - This came to us as a shock: Radio, a technology we had given up for dead, has an audience that is actually growing. AdAge picks up a Paragon Research poll ...
Dubay expects to face cocaine charge
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - By JUDD ZULGAD, Star Tribune The attorney for KFAN Radio personality Jeff Dubay said he expects his client to be charged Wednesday in Ramsey County District ...
Vietnam-era radio personality speaks at Nov. 8 veterans event
Rome Sentinel, NY - VERONA — Armed Forces radio personality Chris Noel will speak at the Oneida Nation’s Veterans Recognition annual breakfast Saturday, Nov. 8. ...
Alan Jones offered $4.3m Macquarie carrot
The Australian, Australia - AUSTRALIA'S highest-paid radio announcer, Alan Jones, stands to reap a fresh cash windfall of $4.3 million from his employer, the listed Macquarie Radio ...
Radio Mirchi's 1st Birthday in Nagpur celebrated in style
RadioandMusic.com, India - MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi, 98.3 FM the number one private Radio FM station (source – IMRB Car Track – Jan – '08), has completed one year in Nagpur. ...
Europe's first multi-cultural radio station to close
TopNews, India - Berlin - It was Europe's first multi-cultural radio station and was given a flamboyant launch in 1994, with more than 2000 guests swaying to African and ...
Celebrities Urge Black America to Vote Early
MarketWatch - The joint initiative between American Urban Radio Networks (AURN) and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) marks the second phase of ...