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Friday, December 5, 2008


Colorado Media Matters: KOA's Newman omitted Obama's plans to "take out" terrorists in claiming Obama would "try to make amends" with them

PARKER: Argonaut celebrates new digs with style
Rocky Mountain News, CO - BOYLES' BREAKUP: I dreaded making the phone call because I've been down this path myself, but radio talk-show host Peter Boyles was forthcoming about the breakup of his 20-year marriage to his wife, Kathleen. "It's true because I don't lie," he said to me about the couple being separated since Halloween. "It really, really hurts. I'm destroyed. My hope is that everything comes together, and we're back together. Like Win- ston Churchill said, 'When you're walking through hell, keep walking.' "

KBCO compiles studio gems
Rocky Mountain News, CO - Two decades worth of performances have seen some of those songs become hits around the world and given the Boulder County AIDS Project much-needed funds ...

Radio, For Those Who Cannot Hear It
Radio World, VA - 4 at NPR in Washington and at FM stations KJZZ, Phoenix; KCFR, Denver; WTMD, Towson, just outside Baltimore; and WGBH, Boston. The stations carried the ...

In Brief - December 4, 2008
FMQB, NJ - Dylan Sprague, PD at Hot AC KALC/Denver, picks up additional PD duties at Classic Rock sister KQMT. When President-Elect Barack Obama recently called ...

ROSEN: UAW an albatross for Big 3
Rocky Mountain News, CO - Mike Rosen's radio show airs weekdays from 9 am to noon on 850 KOA. He can be reached by e-mail at mikerosen@850koa.com.

When did Gingrich turn holy on us?
Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - But something changed in the last couple of years, with the ex-speaker now trying to sound holier than James Dobson even as the American mainstream moves ...

Religion, politics and Focus on the Family: 2 letters
Denver Post, CO - by DP Opinion on December 4, 2008 I am so disgusted after reading David Harsanyi's column blasting James Dobson of Focus on the Family. ...

Survey: More Coloradoans embracing gay unions
Colorado Springs Gazette, CO - ... and its being home to two opposing forces on the issue - Focus on the Family and the Gill Foundation - made this the best crucible for their research. ...

In a Cold Garage, Minnesota's Senate Recount Drags On
Washington Post, United States - Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken expected their race to end more than a month ago, but it remains very much undecided. ...

Would-Be Hanging Judge Ed Schultz Convicts Wal-Mart Without Trial
NewsBusters - Top-rated lefty radio host Ed Schultz provided an example of this Monday, blaming Wal-Mart for the death of an employee killed in a post-Thanksgiving ...

Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
BuzzFlash, IL - By Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann Everybody has an opinion about the Kennedy Assassination, if they aren't among the brain dead. "Legacy of Secrecy" is the ...

Tom Joyner Foundation Offers "Full Ride" Scholarship
Benton Spirit, MI - Most people who listen to morning radio with an urban format are familiar with Tom Joyner and the Tom Joyner Morning Show. In 1998 Joyner established the ...

Continuity we can believe in
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now!," a daily international TV/radio news hour. Denis Moynihan contributed research to this column.

Family Sues Wal-Mart for Black Friday Trampling Death
findingDulcinea, New York - Singletary writes that the shoppers "lost their humanity in the quest for a bargain," while radio talk show host Mark Davis believes that the shoppers are ...

Christmas Is Not A Holiday -- It's A Birthday
GOPUSA, TX - By Michael Reagan Christmas is once again upon us, and we can expect to witness countless new displays of the rampant secularization of what is meant to be ...

The Monica Crowley Show adds major markets
Radio Business Report, Virginia - Talk Radio Network Entertainment recently announced the launch of the weekday Monica Crowley Show. The show airs live from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm EST, ...

Monica Crowley Show Launches into Weekday Syndication
Radio Online, TX - National Aircheck When you need to monitor a radio station, call the National Aircheck. Any station, anywhere, anytime. BestRadioJobs.com Search Radio Jobs ...

Mixing It Up With Left-Wingers
Town Hall, DC - ... Michael Medved, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Miller, Kevin James, Sean Hannity, Lee Rodgers, Michael Reagan, Larry Elder and Bill O'Reilly, ...

Glenn Beck set to bring his radio show to WOR starting in January
New York Daily News, NY - By David Hinckley Glenn Beck, who just moved his TV talk show from CNN to Fox, also will be starting next month on WOR (710 AM). Beck starts Jan. ...

All Glenn Beck wants for Christmas is political peace
Florida Today, FL - Beck got his start on radio at WFLA in Tampa. He has had a talk show on CNN Headline News, but he's switching to Fox News in coming months.

Beck sees new project as 'most important' of his life
Mormon Times, UT - By Carma Wadley When Glenn Beck was 13, he received a handmade sweater from his mother. He hated it at the time -- threw it on the floor. ...

Glenn Beck's No. 1 New York Times Best-Selling Novel The Christmas ...
MarketWatch - This December, NCM Fathom and Mercury Radio Arts give families a new heartwarming tale to add to their holiday classics with Glenn Beck's The Christmas ...

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck to visit Fla.
WWSB ABC 7, FL - The Glenn Beck Radio Program airs nationally from 9 am to noon daily. Beck also had a show on CNN Headline News that will be switching to Fox News Channel ...

Talk radio needs the Fairness Doctrine
Chico News & Review, CA - But there is nothing reasonable or conservative about the views of people like Michael Savage, who could be a poster boy for division, fear and hate. ...

Pastor Rick Warren Details New Book
FOXNews - SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: And here we are, just a few weeks away from Christmas, and, as thousands prepare to celebrate it, well, it seems that few know the ...

Huckabee on the Chambliss Senate Victory
RealClearPolitics, IL - SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Why do I get this? COLMES: I mean, where are you in that thing? Anyway, that's right. HANNITY: I like Saxby. He's a good man. ...

Bill O'Reilly to give up radio show, one of the nation's most ...
New York Daily News, NY - By DAVID HINCKLEY Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly on 'The O'Reilly Factor.' He is giving up his highly popular radio program to devote more time to TV. ...

O'Reilly to end radio show
Radio Business Report, Virginia - Another major hit to Westwood One - Fox News announced what we reported weeks ago (10/23/08 RBR #208): Bill O'Reilly is leaving radio. ...

O'Reilly Radio Factor going off the air next year
News Hounds, CA - O'Reilly's radio show ranked 13th in the country (in a 3-way tie for ninth, following three two-way ties 'above' him) , drawing 1/4 of Rush Limbaugh's ...

Conservatives' new love object: Obama
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Rush Limbaugh, who regularly mocked the president-elect as a "halfrican" and "the Messiah," is sounding far more conciliatory these days. ...

Joy Behar Mocks Rush Limbaugh's Physical Appearance
NewsBusters - By Justin McCarthy (Bio | Archive) Joy Behar knows why Rush Limbaugh is such a success on the radio: He's too ugly for television! On the December 4 edition ...

Should the 401k Be Killed?
TIME - Her proposal caught the attention of talk-radio juggernaut Rush Limbaugh, and over the next few weeks Limbaugh hammered on Ghilarducci's idea as a ...

Big bucks behind blather found on talk radio
Las Vegas Sun, NV - The Las Vegas Sun published a good letter to the editor Wednesday from Zeke O'Leary, regarding "talk show" radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, ...

COOPER: Freedom to speak
Washington Times, DC - And they could count any nationally syndicated program (like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Laura Ingraham, etc.) against the localism requirements. ...

Crashing the Party?
GetReligion, DC - The GOP is the talk-radio party - for the most part, it's centralized, top-down. Even though Rush Limbaugh is "perhaps the best exponent of across-the-board ...

Information on new policies is available if you look for it
Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - If you rely solely on, say, Rush Limbaugh, for your information, you might understandably be unclear about the future under the Obama administration. ...

THE COMING DICTATORSHIP
NewsWithViews.com, OR - Alex Jones has a great radio voice, much better than mine, and does a spectacular job of exposing the conspiracy. I have guested on his show, ...

National Public Radio icon is Doo Dah grand marshal
Whittier Daily News, CA - For now, Phoenix, a recurring correspondent on National Public Radio's "Day to Day," is the perfect match for the Rose Parade's "twisted sister," said Tom ...

ROWLAND: Shave off some ad revenue for public TV
Rocky Mountain News, CO - Many citizens are familiar with all the national political reporting and analysis by the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio. ...

Claims Christians should 'give biblical point of view a different ...
WND.com, OR - An influential evangelical leader is coming under fire for saying in a National Public Radio interview he believes in homosexual civil unions on and ...

WKRK FM 92.3 switches to automated format
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - by Julie E. Washington/Plain Dealer reporter Plain Dealer file photoAnthony Cumia -- one half of radio's Opie and Anthony -- will not be heard on WKRK any ...

Tesh's warmup act feeling giddy
Tampabay.com, FL - He currently hosts the syndicated John Tesh Radio Show: Music and Intelligence for Your Life, which airs locally on WMTX-FM Mix 100.7. ...

Radio celebrates Bill Drake for never playing it safe
OCRegister, CA - Clear Channel Traffic will adopt the same name, said John Quinlan, AirWatch general manager. AirWatch began 20 years ago as AirTraffic Communications in ...

Miley Cyrus is a Cookie Monster
Just Jared Jr. - Miley Cyrus called up Radio Disney earlier today while prettying up her toenails. (She was having festive snowflakes being put on them. ...

Jackie Mason 'TRYING OUT' Adds Special Performance 12/20
Broadway World, NY - Jackie currently hosts a nationally syndicated radio show on The Talk Radio Network, which airs Sunday nights from 7:00 to 9:00 PM EST. ...

Digital switch could affect radio, too
Deseret News, UT - RADIO VETERAN DIES - Fred R. Brown, 74, a Utah radio host and icon in the Uintah Basin, died Nov. 29 from cancer. He had been part of Roosevelt's ...

Oh, those radio pranksters
Radio Business Report, Virginia - She did eventually speak to Obama and yesterday she appeared on the radio show as well to take her lumps. We don't have a recording of any of the telephone ...

Hampton Roads radio host Rollie Bristol dies at age 67
The Virginian-Pilot, VA - Rollie Bristol worked 32 years in Hampton Roads radio. (file photo) By Lauren King Rollie Bristol, who worked 32 years in Hampton Roads radio, ...

Local radio announcer selected to be voice of Oregon baseball
KPIC, OR - He has been selected as one of the radio announcers for Oregon Duck Baseball. The university brought back the sport after it was dropped in 1981, ...

Local Radio Stations To Hold Annual Jingle Balls Auction To ...
MyNC.com, NC - By WRBZ/WDNC, Press Release, 11 minutes ago WRBZ Sports Radio 850 The Buzz and WDNC 620 The Bull, the Triangle's leading sports talk radio stations, ...

Turns' career taking off on talk radio
UNLV The Rebel Yell, NV - Earlier this year, UNLV alumna, Ciara Turns, was in the running to win a talk radio personality spot on KXNT Las Vegas New Radio. Turns won the contest and ...

Banning of Veritas radio advert ridiculous, says theologian
Irish Times, Ireland - ... a decision by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) to ban a Christmas radio advertisement by Veritas, which is owned by the Catholic bishops. ...

UK RADIO JOCK SUSPENDED OVER BUSTA SONG:...
Eurweb.com, CA - UK RADIO JOCK SUSPENDED OVER BUSTA SONG: Station owners issue apology over rapper's hit 'Arab Money.' *A popular UK radio DJ and his producer were suspended ...

Weekend radio host to do 1000th show
Billings Gazette,  USA - By ED KEMMICK TJ Starr broke into the radio business over drinks at Casey's Golden Pheasant, a downtown watering hole. That's where he met Marvin Granger, ...

Right-Wing Talk Radio Host: We're Killing The GOP
Huffington Post, NY - The multibillion-dollar talk radio industry faces existential challenges and dramatic opportunities in the upcoming Age of Obama. ...