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Tuesday, December 2, 2008



Round Table For Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Capitol Hill Blue, VA - 1952 - Denver's KOA-TV transmitted, for 49 stations on the NBC network, the first human birth to be seen on TV. It was a part of the program, "The March of ...

Forget about Hardball's Matthews - let's talk about Denver's ...
Face The State - Colorado, CO - KHOW talk show host Dan Caplis has made no secret of his interest in launching his own political career, with insiders suggesting he is now considering a ...

Burgeoning Colorado/American Cities Racked with Poverty
Denver Post, CO - The sad fact remains that Ritter and the Looper, as radio talk show host Peter Boyles calls him, refuse to stand up for the rule of law. ...

Samuel "Skip" Weller Joins Liquid Compass as Consultant
MarketWatch - Liquid Compass ( www.liquidcompass.net) is a premier streaming delivery network, headquartered in Denver, Colorado. In addition to a wide array of stream ...

Jim Fassel could save Cutler
OPENSports.com, FL - Fassel wants to be and will be a head coach in the NFL again, but for now he'sa football analyst for ESPN and Westwood One. Something needs to be done; ...

Radio Free Minturn grateful
Vail Daily News, CO - On behalf of all of the volunteers at Radio Free Minturn, 107.9FM, I would like to thank our extraordinary community for their generous support during our ...

Franken May Appeal To Senate, Courts
CBS News, NY - Minnesota Senate candidate Al Franken's campaign says it may appeal to the US Senate or the courts because it believes that up to 1000 absentee ballots were ...

What Franken's campaign says about a Chris Matthews run for Senate
Minneapolis City Pages, MN - Of course as a political pundit, the similarities to Al Franken are already circulating. What could Matthews learn from Franken's race? Don't run. ...

Unresolved Senate Races: Republicans Play to Win
Beyond Chron, CA - Minnesota voters won't get a "second chance" to pick between Coleman and Democrat Al Franken, as the razor-thin outcome is in a lengthy recount process ...

Protect freedom of speech: Bury the misnamed "Fairness Doctrine"
Washington Examiner, DC - While the biggest names with the greatest listenership in talk radio are conservatives, it isn't as if liberals haven't tried. Networks like Air America ...

Ed Schultz Laments Not Getting to 'Urinate' in White House 'Yard'
NewsBusters - By Jack Coleman (Bio | Archive) Gee, wondered liberal radio host Ed Schultz, how come conservative talkers got invited to the White House during the Bush ...

Ron Reagan
BuzzFlash, IL - We've been listening to the new Ron Reagan show on Air America, which comes on after Rachel Maddow, and have been enjoying it. Reagan has a natural radio ...

Tavis Smiley's Dilemma with Black America
The Daily Voice, NY - Since Obama snubbed both events, Tavis's popular commentaries about Obama on The Tom Joyner Morning Show alienated many listeners. ...


Runoff in Georgia draws national interest
Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - WSB Radio talk show host Neal Boortz told listeners on a recent drive-time show. Boortz has called Martin's potential election "dangerous" to the nation. ...

The Teflon president-elect
OneNewsNow, MS - 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 ...

Forecast '09 Held Today In New York
Streaming Magazine, FL - ... and a conversation between Talk Radio Network host Monica Crowley and influential entrepreneur and US News & World Report Publisher Mort Zuckerman. ...

Feeling Good About Obama
Cape Cod Today, MA - I also got a little fed up with talk radio types like Monica Crowley dwelling on Obama's middle name and apparently trying to convince people that he might ...

Glenn Beck Debuts On Fox News Jan. 19
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - Beck will continue to do his afternoon radio show, The Glenn Beck Program, which is syndicated to 280 stations by Premiere Radio Networks.

FAIR Puts Black Activists Front and Center
Intelligence Report, AL - ... than 40 talk show hosts conducted two days of live broadcasts from "radio row" at the Phoenix Park Hotel. The most prominent among them was Lou Dobbs, ...

Savage on the Mumbai attacks: "Should the tribal areas in Pakistan ...
Media Matters for America, DC - Summary: Discussing the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, Michael Savage said: "Should the tribal areas of Pakistan be wiped out and the rats killed in ...

Deepak Chopra Calls Out Hannity And FOX As "Cheerleaders" For Iraq War
News Hounds, CA - But during his time with Sean Hannity, Chopra defended his previous criticisms of the US war on terror and its effect on Muslims by going on offense against ...

O'Reilly Whitewashes Torture At Gitmo: 'There's Certainly No Proof ...
Think Progress, DC - By Ryan Powers at 6:31 pm Today on the Radio Factor, a listener called in to tell Bill O'Reilly that she had "zero confidence" in Obama's ability to close ...

Limbaugh Calls Clinton Pick 'Brilliant Stroke' by Obama
ABC News - By KATIE ESCHERICH Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh says he's "stunned" that Hillary Clinton accepted the job as President-elect Obama's secretary of ...

The Obama presidency begins to emerge
American Thinker, WA - Recall Bill Clinton blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on Rush Limbaugh in the mid-90s. Obama would simply be following a fine liberal tradition. ...

Food Riots, Civil Unrest and the Disunited States of America
Blogcritics.org, OH - Conspiracy monger Alex Jones even got in on the act on his radio show this weekend, suggesting that there is an active globalist plot to weaken America by ...

Opie & Anthony cut by WBCN
Bizjournals.com, NC - A call to WBCN General Manager Mark Hannon was not immediately returned. O&A can still be heard on XM Satellite Radio from 9 am-11 am.

Howard Stern interviews her royal majesty Queen Elizabeth!
The Spoof (satire), UK - Her majesty as she finished her Howard Stern interview and stopped at Ben and Jerry's for some take home. London - In a rare interview with shock-jock ...

IF YOU'RE NOT WEIRD, YOU'RE WEIRD: When talk-show hosts battle for ...
Daily Aztec, CA - ("Dear Abby" columnist leaves the radio station in disgust and without getting her parking validated.) Dr. Drew: I miss Adam Carolla. ...

Drake's format: No. 1 then - and now
New York Daily News, NY - Oh yeah, and WABC morning man Don Imus grew up on Drake radio, too. WOR-FM was close to a Drake station in the late '60s, though the style was adjusted a ...

Live radio lives
The Phoenix, MA - After a moment, she adds, pleased, "And we don't answer to Clear Channel." Radio is a fundamentally local medium, a concept that is the axis upon which WFNX ...

Katz Goes Electronic With Sale Orders
MEDIAWEEK - Coupled with the systems Katz already has in place with Clear Channel Radio, more than 90 percent of the radio stations handled by Katz will be able to ...

RJR's Ghost Haunts Buyout Business
Wall Street Journal - Bain Capital and THL Partners announced a deal to acquire radio giant Clear Channel Communications for $19.4 billion two years ago, which was finally ...

Hollywood Santa Parade still sparkles at 80
Los Angeles Times, CA - This year, city officials partnered with Radio Disney and other sponsors to put on Winterfest, a street festival leading up to the parade. ...

Katz Reps Lincoln Financial Media, Partners With Marketron
Streaming Magazine, FL - Katz Radio Group will begin selling ad time on the stations today. "We're excited to enter into a partnership with Lincoln Financial Media that we believe ...

Radio program makes local stop for Texans game
Houston Chronicle, United States - They're the top-rated show on KFNC, which picked up the ESPN Radio franchise when the network bolted from KBME (790 AM) because the station wanted to dump ...

ESPN's Mike and Mike hit town today for charity
Dallas Morning News, TX - Medical City Dallas Children's Hospital big wigs Scott Schmidly (COO) and Tim Burroughs (CFO) bid $57100 of their own cash in an ESPN Radio charity auction ...

Radio Station Scraps Music Turns to Sports
KULR-TV, MT - The new programming will be syndicated with ESPN radio, but that could expand down the road. "We want to build out obviously to local high school, college, ...

Former KYMA sports anchor takes job with Scorpions
Yuma Sun, AZ - "With no ESPN Radio in this town, I can't believe there's not an hour-long sports show on one of the stations," St. Clair said. ...

Competition for the Portable People Meter?
E-Commerce Times - For over 50 years, Arbitron has enjoyed a monopoly on radio audience measurement -- that is, up until the recent announcement by Nielsen Media Research, ...

Ford opposes HD Radio mandates
Radio Business Report, Virginia - The automaker sent a letter to the FCC outlining its opposition. Said Ford: "(The proposal) has several ancillary consequences that would be extremely ...

FCC Extends Deadline For Sirius XM To Lease Channels
Streaming Magazine, FL - ... 2008: Sirius XM Radio had until November 28 -- four months after the XM-Sirius merger that created the company was approved by the FCC -- to lease 4 ...

Smyth: Fairness Doctrine 'Obsolete'
Streaming Magazine, FL - Smyth points out that the Fairness Doctrine was introduced as an FCC policy in 1949, with the justification that limited radio frequencies meant that "no ...

KUCI: The Underground Alternative
New University Online, CA - A year later, the radio station became registered with the FCC after much discord over its legality. The project was moved into a closet in the physical ...

Sound advice: Finding an HD radio
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 11, but a variant of it will be broadcast on the Internet and on HD radio. I'm looking for an HD radio I can listen to while getting ready in the morning. ...

Hear, hear! Sirius XM Radio finally explains changes to customers
Boston Herald, United States - With changes on nearly every front since the merger was finalized in late July, Sirius XM Radio, as it's now called, has slowly reached out to customers to ...

Radio Revenue Slides 9% Despite Political Spending
Seeking Alpha, NY - Off-air, which includes internet revenues, was the only sector to post an increase in Q3, rising 5% to $458 million. This growth is - to a small extent ...

Radio Kansas to air afternoon performance
KWU News, KS - Radio Kansas personnel plan to record the 3:30 pm service and broadcast it at 7 pm December 19 and at noon on Christmas Day. Radio Kansas is a three-station ...

BBC Apologizes For Barrowman Radio Stunt
SyFyPortal, FL - By MICHAEL HINMAN Not too long ago, if someone exposed themselves during a radio show, only the people sitting in the studio would be able to see. ...

German radio rejects claim of pro-Beijing bias
Monsters and Critics.com - The bias claims were directed at radio transmissions in Chinese and the Chinese-language part of DW's website, with critics attacking Zhang Danhong, ...

Ironhorse Tracker Radio Newscast Available
NewsBlaze, CA - BAGHDAD - The Ironhorse Tracker is a three-minute radio newscast from Baghdad covering military units and events across Multi-National Division - Baghdad. ...

Drake's format: No. 1 then - and now
New York Daily News, NY - Some longtime radio listeners trace the decline in personality on music radio to a man named Bill Drake, who died Saturday at the age of 71. ...

Local broadcasting great passes away
WTHI, IN - Harry Frey began his broadcasting career in radio as a singer on WBOW while he was a student in Garfield High School. Little did anyone know that he would become ...

Radio's Kitty Kinnin Returns To The Triangle Airwaves - And Her ...
MyNC.com, NC - By Stacy Peterson, NBC17, 1 week, 3 days ago Radio host Kitty Kinnin is still amazed by the number of e-mails she receives every morning. ...

Republican pols start radio shows
Politicker NH, NH - By Brian Lawson, PolitickerNH.com Reporter Two former Republican congressional candidates and a Republican activist are slated to start their own radio ...

Jerome Corsi Appears on White Supremacist Radio
Intelligence Report, AL - The aptly named "Cesspool" is a blatantly racist and anti-Semitic weekly radio program hosted by Memphis, Tenn., white nationalist James Edwards, ...

Fire alarm hits BBC radio broadcast
The Press Association - The BBC said the false alarm at Broadcasting House, home of BBC Radio, in central London, had affected two radio programmes - the Sarah Kennedy Show on BBC ...

Talk shows talk up perils of reviving 'fairness' rule
Pioneer Press, MN - By Dave Helling The subject of their concern is the Fairness Doctrine, a federal regulation that once required radio and television stations to air ...

Rightwing Radio Veteran Slams Rightwing Radio
Brad Blog - It was written by Dan Shelley, the former news director/program manager at one of Milwaukee's largest and most powerful radio stations, WTMJ. ...