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Thursday, December 11, 2008


Colorado Media Matters: KOA's Caldara allowed guest to repeat refuted claim that Obama "paid under market value" for house

There really is no place like home
Westword, CO - For example, we have five radio shows dedicated to local music - seven, if you include Carmen Allgood's Colorado Wave and Chris K's Colorado Sound on KRFC. ... We've got the Local Shakedown on Radio 1190 (which is now posting its shows and playlists online); KTCL's Locals Only, now in the middle of its annual ...

Play Hooky
New West, MT - Ski Hooky Days sponsored by Denver's 95.7 KPTT FM "The Party" radio station begin this week and continue on as yet unannounced Thursdays throughout the ...

Arena football all but finished for 2009
Examiner.com - "The best thing might be to take three to four months to get it right," Young said during an interview Tuesday on Mile High Sports Radio. ...

New radio station lacking federal authorization
SmallTownPapers News Service, WA - An FCC Enforcement Bureau agent from Denver who inspected KHOD this past June - following complaints about KHOD allegedly operating in violation of its ...

Sportswriter, broadcaster saw it all
The Casper Star Tribune, WY - He created the popular radio talk show "Cheyenne Today" and was station manager and eventual part-owner of KFBC Radio in Cheyenne. ...

Feminist Professor Wendy Murphy Seems Unhappy about Due Process in ...
Men's News Daily, CA - Craig Silverman, a former Colorado prosecutor known for his zealous prosecution of rapists during his 16-year career, says that false rape accusations occur ...

Mass Family Institute is down, but is it out?
Bay Windows, MA - National allies on the religious right, such as MFI's parent organization Focus on the Family and its spin-off, Family Research Council, spent thousands of ...

Franken YouTube video pushes some buttons
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Stepping up the pressure on the state Canvassing Board to count disputed absentee ballots in the US Senate race, Democrat Al Franken's campaign Wednesday ...

FBI Investigating Coleman Associate
CBS News, NY - Norm Coleman, still embroiled in a recount battle with Democratic rival Al Franken, may have bigger things than reelection to worry about: According to the ...

Pawlenty to Reid: Butt out
Hot Air, MD - The likelihood of Harry Reid intervening in Minnesota's Senate race to install Al Franken via Senate fiat dimmed considerably when Saxby Chambliss routed ...

Rachel Maddow Redefines Progressive Television Conversation
BuzzFlash, IL - ... quite an accomplishment for someone who just a few years back was a DJ on a small radio station in the Berkshires who connived her way onto Air America. ...

How Does it Feel?
OpEdNews, PA - by Mike Malloy Page 1 of 1 page(s) I have a question for all those working-class Democrats -- especially the ones employed directly or indirectly by the US ...

Ayers doth protest too much
WND.com, OR - This op-ed prompted an e-mail to me from Rich Davis, the producer of the excellent Rusty Humphries show. "They know," Davis wrote. "They know that you know. ...

US conservatives gleeful over arrest
TVNZ, New Zealand - Talk show host Neal Boortz, who describes himself as a libertarian, headlined an online column about the story "The Gift that Keeps On Giving" because of ...

The Perfect Stimulus Package
Xenia Gazette, OH - Neal Boortz has been a Talk Show Host in Atlanta, Georgia since 1969. Currently he's on News Talk 750 WSB, a radio station with a 50000 watt afterburner.

Obama to take oath using all three names
MLive.com, MI - apologized it was used by Bill Cunningham, a talk-radio host who was introducing McCain at a rally in Cincinnati. The Associated Press reported at the time, ...

Fortunately, Obama lied
Post-Bulletin, MN - Michael Reagan, the elder son of the late President Ronald Reagan is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America ...

John Young: Geeze, throw them a rope
Waco Tribune Herald, TX - Post-Election Day, conservative talk-show host Michael Medved wrote in USA Today about the future of his craft and "a conservatism that connects with only a ...

'Evil Penguins' author to sign books
Chicago Daily Herald, IL - Meet acclaimed author and talk radio host Michael Medved as he signs copies of his book "The 10 Big Lies About America - Combating Destructive Distortions ...

Rebutting Marc Shaiman's Musical Against Prop 8
Evening Bulletin, PA - Dennis Prager hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk show and is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Critics Still Reeling From Mumbai Coverage
New York Jewish Week,  USA - Radio talk show host Dennis Prager (Dec. 3) wrote, "Imagine a Basque separatist terrorist organization attacking Madrid. Would the terrorists take time out ...

Faced with economic turmoil, media conservatives turn to class warfare
Media Matters for America, DC - On the September 25 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, radio host Laura Ingraham claimed that 1995 rules strengthening the CRA "pushed all these ...

Joe the Plumber trashes McCain in new book
Christian Science Monitor, MA - So he went on Glenn Beck's radio program yesterday to discuss "Fighting for the American Dream". What can we expect? The vaunted "inside look" at the ...

When Crazy Hangs Out with Joe the Plumber
Jossip, NY - Ugh, Glenn Beck. More like Glenn Blegch, am I right you guys? The CNN/soon to be Fox News host had a little guy named Joe the Plumber on his radio show ...

Faced with economic turmoil, media conservatives turn to class warfare
Media Matters for America, DC - Also on the October 9 Lou Dobbs Tonight, radio host Joe Madison said: "You see, this really angers me, because I'm sitting here ... and wondering, ...

Any Heterosexual Woman Over Age 25 Is a 'Dominatrix,' Says Michael ...
Women on the Web, NY - By The Staff at wowOwow.com The outspoken radio host Michael Savage recently labeled any "heterosexual woman over the age of 25" as a "dominatrix. ...

How Muslim-bashers broadcast their bigotry
The People's Voice, TN - ... as well as on right-wing talk radio, where hosts like Michael Savage rabble-rouse with overtly bigoted commentary like (Savage Nation, 7/2/07), ...

Ignoring context, Hannity called "president-elect" mentions in ...
Media Matters for America, DC - On the December 9 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity asserted that President-elect Barack Obama is "all over" the criminal ...

Hannity Demands Presidential Transparency
OpEdNews, PA - by Gustav Wynn Page 1 of 1 page(s) A giddy Sean Hannity related the charges against Illinois' newly indicted Governor today, taking aim at President-Elect ...

Hannity So Eager To Tie Obama To Blagojevich, He Ignored ...
News Hounds, CA - Predictably, Sean Hannity was positively giddy with bullyboy glee last night (12/9/08) over what he perceived as an opportunity to link Barack Obama to the ...

O'Reilly falsely claimed Army Field Manual "bans any questioning ...
Media Matters for America, DC - On the December 3 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, O'Reilly similarly stated that the ACLU "do(es)n't want any interrogation ...

Displays at Capitol have raised a fuss
The Olympian, WA - I have it on good authority that Bill O'Reilly of Fox News might need a rabies vaccine as he was foaming at the mouth. Since when does having an opinion ...

Socialism for the Rich
The Nation., NY - And who would have thought that it would be the candidates backed by conservative pundits Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh who made it possible? ...

Conservatives gleeful over governor's arrest
Reuters - Except that it's all too believable," said Rush Limbaugh, a leading conservative US talk radio host. Obama should escape being tainted by the scandal since ...

Limbaugh falsely claimed Bush waited until his second term to ...
Media Matters for America, DC - Summary: On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that in his first term, President George W. Bush "left a lot of Clinton US attorneys in office, ...

Inside the Ring
Washington Times, DC - Radio talk-show host and conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh predicted in a speech last week that Democrats will back down from their pledge to ...

Just what is it that liberals are afraid of?
Albany Times Union, NY - While the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity can drive even me batty, I think that passion is many times mistaken for hate. I have satellite radio in ...

Just what is it that liberals are afraid of?
Albany Times Union, NY - While the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity can drive even me batty, I think that passion is many times mistaken for hate. I have satellite radio in ...

Phoenix New Times
Riverfront Times, MO - U. engineering prof It has come to Unreal's attention that Alex Jones, the radio host and filmmaker who predicted the events of 9/11 two months before they ...

National Public Radio to cut shows, personnel
Los Angeles Times, CA - Facing huge deficits as a result of the sagging US economy, National Public Radio said today it would reduce its workforce by 7% and cancel the two weekday ...

KERA-FM Is Losing Two Shows, Thanks to NPR Cancellations Today
Dallas Observer, TX - From Gawker, this news for regular listeners of National Public Radio via its local outlet, KERA-FM (90.1): NPR today has axed two shows, Day to Day and ...

Fans in mourning for MPR's 'Morning Show'
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - "The Morning Show" has been unorthodox since the beginning, when Garrison Keillor first came up with a show that poked some fun at the station's classical ...

KEILLOR: Christmas in New York: Merry and muscular
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - Garrison Keillor's show A Prairie Home Companion can be heard at 5 pm Saturdays and 10 am Sundays on public radio station KERA/90.1 FM. www.kera.org.

Country Cousin
Peshtigo Times, WI - Haven't been able to verify if Paul Harvey did in fact make the following remarks, but if he didn't, he could have. The person who sent this to me said this ...

Just be glad Leno didn't get the 8pm slot instead
TV Squad, CA - That's one of the many revelations in this interview (link goes directly to audio) that Ryan Seacrest did with NBC chief Ben Silverman on his radio show ...

Catching up with Stern show winner and Easton native April Macie
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com, PA - Is that enough time? by Express-Times staff Contributed photoApril Macie was selected as the "The Hottest Funniest Chick" by the Howard Stern radio show. ...

Artie Lange Was Almost Cast in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler
/FILM, MA - Comedian and New York Times Bestselling author Artie Lange admitted on the Howard Stern Show yesterday that he auditioned for Darren Aronofsky's The ...

Oprah Hits 2-0-0: Media Say "Oh, No, No!"
Huffington Post, NY - As Dr. Drew Pinsky would say, she needs to deal with the "chaos" before she can deal with the weight. Pinsky, the wise radio-TV doc who counsels addicts of ...

Beautiful Thing
TheStranger.com, WA - In the same time slot over on Seattle's "Warm" 106.9 FM was Delilah, the velvet-voiced empath whose far more successful commercial-radio show is an object ...

Making a Big Move in Hollywood
American Spectator - He worked for years as an assistant editor for Matt Drudge's famous Drudge Report, and helped his friend Arianna Huffington create the Huffington Post, ...

Cowherd Piles on Redskins
Washington Post Blogs, DC - As near as I can tell, Colin Cowherd only exists to spend lots of time saying mildly stupid and faintly controversial things on a radio show no one ever ...

Behind the cheer at WLIT
Chicago Tribune, United States - ... corporate radio that DJs don't pick their music. Instead, Clear Channel Broadcasting, the station's owner, selects the songs, which exist not on CDs but ...

Online radio advertising network shows promise
The Associated Press - New York-based TargetSpot will handle online ads for more than 1000 stations, including those owned by terrestrial broadcasters such as CBS Radio, ...

ESPN Radio Seeks FM Home In NYC
Streaming Magazine, FL - The Crain's article describes Emmis' WRXP as "a low-rated Rock station," and therefore a target in a deal that would give ESPN Radio an FM signal in New ...

Radio host stabbed in road rage
WBIR-TV, TN - Jeremy Baumhower, Neff's producer at WCWA Fox Sports Radio, said he spoke to Neff prior to surgery. Baumhower told NBC24 that the stabbing occurred as the ...

Cheers & Jeers - Monkeying with radio hosts
Washington Examiner, DC - Fox Sports Radio is soon going to have to offer Bimbo a show, since the 35-year-old Capuchin appears to know just as much about the NFL as its hosts. ...

RADAR 99: Over 234 Million Listen To Radio Weekly
FMQB, NJ - Arbitron has released preliminary data from its RADAR 99 National Radio Listening Report, which will be unveiled next Tuesday, December 16 in its entirety. ...

Study: Radio Listeners Up, Despite Industry Doldrums
MEDIAWEEK - Radio advertising revenue may be at its lowest ebb in many years, but the number of listeners is up. According to new data from Arbitron's national ...

Cumulus CEO: Radio turnaround coming in spring 2010
SmartBrief, DC - Dickey also came out in favor of more mergers within radio and defended the company's decision to seek out a new ratings vendor to compete with Arbitron. ...

Tech radio off air due to money issues
LubbockOnline.com, TX - Because KTXT-FM is licensed through the FCC as an educational station, regulations strictly limited the type of advertisements that could be broadcast, ...

HD Radio Inclusion Debate Heating Up At FCC
istockAnalyst.com (press release), OR - With the announcement of the approval of the license transfer, the FCC took it upon itself to investigate the possibility that HD radio technology should be ...

The New FCC Chair Needs To Push For Less Broadcast Regulation
Digital Media Wire, CA - In one recent article, radio's dramatic decline in revenues was highlighted, even as the industry's listenership remains high (as confirmed by BIA's recent ...

Is it Time for Mel Karmazin to Go?
Motley Fool - ... since loyal investors don't necessarily blame him for the satellite radio provider's predicament. It's a whole lot easier to blame the FCC. ...

Real Savings in Radio's Real World
Radio World, VA - The days of FCC-mandated spare parts stocks are long gone, and the overnight couriers really can get you almost anything, from anywhere, overnight, ...

Is wireless changing our DNA?
NetworkWorld.com, MA - However, the FCC doesn't really take a strong stand on this issue. The FCC does consider and test the wireless radios within portable devices, ...

James Taylor To Be Featured Guest on SIRIUS XM Radio's Artist ...
MarketWatch - SIRIUS XM Radio is America's satellite radio company delivering everything worth listening to, including 69 commercial-free music channels, premier sports, ...

Foreign broadcasters not welcome
followthemedia.com (subscription), Switzerland - Azerbaijan's government gave the BBC World Service and US international broadcasters Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) a ...

KFNN celebrates 20-year milestone in Phoenix radio
Bizjournals.com, NC - It hasn't been easy for Rob Cohen, but his vision for on all-day radio station devoted to business news has found a loyal following in the Phoenix market. ...

Talk radio: a Q&A with Ira Glass
The State Journal-Register, IL - By BRIAN MACKEY "This American Life," the radio show he created, just turned 13, and he and his staff have completed two seasons of a televised "This ...

Rangers' radio voice joins MLB Network
MLB.com - 2 radio broadcaster, is joining the MLB Network. Rojas, the son of former Major League second baseman Cookie Rojas, will serve as a studio host on MLB ...

Local Radio Host Gets Axed
WHO-TV, IA - J. Michael McKoy has been greeting Iowans on the radio for more than 20 years, spending time on country, rock and talk stations. Now, he's unemployed. ...

Facts about Radio Wales
WalesOnline, United Kingdom - BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Wales were originally created as distinct stations on the old Radio 4 Scottish and Radio 4 Welsh medium-wave opt-out ...

Radio Listening Approaches Quarter Billion Mark
Streaming Magazine, FL - NEW YORK รข€“ December 10, 2008: The latest RADAR 99 National Radio Listening Report finds that radio reaches more than 234 million persons age 12 and older ...

Radio station loses suit over singing contest cash
Rocky Mount Telegram, NC - By John Henderson A local radio station has been ordered in district court to pay a New Bern woman $500 it had refused to pay her as award money for winning ...


A New Take on Radio
U.S. News & World Report, DC - As founder of Pandora, a personalized internet radio service based in Oakland, California, Westergren, 43, has struck a chord that resonates with its more ...