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The Wires (May 9, 2008)

Inside Music Media: From Jerry Del Colliano -- CBS is moving in the direction of trying to get radio into new technology. It revealed a new media player that will feature several radio stations at once including Internet brands. They've jumped into the personalized radio business with Last.FM. Have a deal with AOL. Their own individual station streams and so on. My experience with the next generation does not bode well for any strategy that proliferates traditional radio onto new delivery systems. The next generation doesn't like radio. Not the stations. Not the concept. There's simply less need for it in their lives. New technologies will not only replace radio among the next generation, they already have

The Wires (May 8, 2008)

Inside Music Media: Radio groups that have been chopping away at expenses are beginning to see the ratings repercussions of their actions. Morning shows -- down and in some cases out. Total ratings down (especially with a weakened morning show). The decision makers decided they had to cut to the bone and their companies are getting ready to pay the price. You can't get top rates for declining shares. The economic downturn is prompting some advertisers not to buy as deeply in the top ranked stations for their desired demographics

Randy Dotinga: Clear Channel: Profits of doom. This is the first of two columns about the company Clear Channel and how it changed radio in San Diego and across the country. About eight years ago, the host of a local morning show told me about a new technological wonder that had appeared at his station. The host ---- not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, if you know what I mean ---- thought it was called the Profit System. It was actually the Prophet System, a computerized gizmo that made it easier to pre-tape radio shows and then skedaddle. Radio personalities didn't even have to be in the same hemisphere when their shows ultimately aired. It wasn't called the Profit System. But it might as well have been. Clear Channel Communications, which owned the station, wanted to make more money. And if a radio host could tape his on-air bits from a four-hour show in 45 minutes, well, all the better. And if you didn't need to pay DJs to sit behind the microphone 24 hours a day, well, great! Neither of us knew it then, but Clear Channel's drive for profit would soon turn it into one of the most despised companies in America. The critics, the intelligentsia and any hipster under the age of 30 were in the vanguard of the I-hate-Clear-Channel brigade, but the monolithic company developed a vaguely disreputable reputation even among those who didn't pay much attention. The only notable exceptions were on Wall Street, where Clear Channel shareholders watched the prices of their stock go through the roof. Now, all that history is, well, history. Clear Channel still exists and still owns 1,200 stations, but it's trying to shrink its holdings and go private.
Read the rest at Dotinga's page.

Top 5 Stories of the Week (Apr 28-May 4, 2008)

4. My air conditioner in my car broke down.

3. Padres keep on keep on keep on keep on losing and losing and losing...

2. The Mad Music Archive converts their shows from podcasting to streaming only.

1. Star Wars Day on May 4. May The Fourth Be With You?

The Wires (May 7, 2008)

Inside Music Media: From Jerry Del Colliano -- The radio industry is just now acknowledging the brain drain in the radio industry. The trades are all abuzz. I guess someone just figured out that a lot of the good and talented ones got away -- more precisely were driven away and that it puts radio in peril. As a result the best and the brightest don't want a career in this business. Again and again it's the handful of people -- could I call them thieves -- running away with their shareholders money while delivering little or no return on investment. You'd think the shareholders would yell STOP before the big explosion (read more - Inside Music Media)

All Access reports that KYXY Night Show Host Kris Toledo Exits. CBS AC KYXY (SOFT ROCK 96.5)/SAN DIEGO night-time "LOVE SONGS' host KRIS TOLEDO has resigned to relocate her family to LOS ANGELES. No replacement has been named at this time. Submit resumes and airchecks to jodi.burns@cbsradio.com.

Chris Cantore on X1FM (May 6, 2008)

Chris Cantore kicked off his first show from 8am-NOON on x1fm.com (corrected) In a bad sense of timing, I had to leave for work at 8am, and I don't have one of those portable wi-fi radios yet if they exist at all, so I couldn't hear what his show sounded like, or whether he took any potshots at his former employer 91X who fired him last December.

All of the radio critics including myself say that there will be a day soon when there will be a convergence of technologies that will allow cars to enjoy Internet radio. When the heck is that ever going to happen? I'd like to see Nokia, a sponsor of X1FM.org, or somebody come up with a wi-fi car radio that will fit inside the dashboard of my car so you can listen to any streaming radio station while you drive.

With KPRI 102.1 faltering in the ratings, maybe it's time the owners of KPRI, Compass Broadcasting, team up their resources with X1FM and let X1FM provide the programming of its alternative rock format to 102.1. It couldn't hurt. Anything's (musicwise) better than what KPRI is offering these days. AAA is triple dead. It's dead. It's days are so Melrose Place era. The AAA era is dead. AAA is not pinin'. AAA's passed on! This format is no more! AAA has ceased to be! AAA's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! AAA's a stiff! Bereft of life, AAA rests in peace! It's metabolic processes are now history! AAA's off the twig! AAA's kicked the bucket, AAA's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-FORMAT!!

The Walrus Has Personalities (May 6, 2008)

Former Rich Brother® Frank Anthony holds down the noon-3pm shift.

From 9am until noon is something they call Wallapalooza. I'm not sure why they called it that.

No personalities in other time periods as of yet.

The Wires (May 6, 2008)

Broadcasting and Cable: With only minor modifications, a bill to allow full-power TV stations along the border with Mexico to continue to broadcast in analog after the switch to digital has passed the Senate Commerce Committee

All Comedy Radio: www.allcomedyradio.com - A unique and diverse format service is currently on HD-2 stations 24/7 in Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Denver, Kansas City, Memphis, New Orleans, Buffalo and others. For affiliate information for your HD-2 station contact: Al Perrotta at acrnews@mac.com Got that, Clear Channel? XTRA 1360 doesn't get the listeners. Are you reading, Bob Bollinger?

Yes, way Jose! KLYY 97.5 Riverside flipped to 'Jose', a Spanish-language adult hits format as "97.5 Jose FM." The new station website is up, at http://www.jose975.com/

Microsoft Windows Ad Spoof (May 4, 2008)

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"...the whole story; beginning, middle, and end of Top 40's radio heyday in America's finest city..." --Rich Brother Robbin, 2004

I don't believe the history of San Diego radio has been chronicled before like this...it's absolutely fascinating." --Gene Knight, 2004

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New CD from Sudden Death: Fatal Error (Apr 24, 2008)

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The Radio Station Logos section has been restored after years of absence from the Internet. Thanks to the old issues of Radio Guide San Diego and Radio Guide Los Angeles, as well as participants, I have managed to scan and upload many more radio station logos of the 90s in the San Diego and Los Angeles areas.

There's still more work to be done as it's a work in progress. Click on the Radio Station Logos logo to enter the section.

New David Tanny CD "Stupid Audio 5.0"

Here is my song title list:

1. This is SATV station I.D.
2. Goin' Back to L.A.
3. Numbered TV Shows on SATV
4. Dope Deal or No Dope Deal part one
5. Taco Hell
6. Tonight at 8
7. Dope Deal or No Dope Deal part two
8. HDTV Dinners
9. Movie and Sports Week on SATV
10. Dope Deal or No Dope Deal part three
11. Gold 2
12. Today on SATV
13. Dope Deal or No Dope Deal part four
14. Music Week on SATV
15. Watch The Frog 3
16. Fred's Bank
17. The Adventures of Humid Man
18. Thunderstreet
19. Popeye the Farting Man
20. Unsolved Mysteries: Valerie Bertinelli
21. Having Fun on the MMDT20 Show
22. Unsolved Blooper
23. This is SATV without announcer.

Full Details Here:
http://www.davidtanny.com/90050.htm

Press Release Here:
http://www.davidtanny.com/90055.htm

Some samples from this and the past few CDs are available for listening here:
http://www.davidtanny.com/

Three free samples of the song mp3s can be e-mailed to radio deejays and podcasters by request by sending a request to dfsx@dfsxradio.com

Due to the high cost of manufacturing (which costs me $3 in materials alone), I am unable to send anybody a free CD outright. CDs can be purchased at http://www.davidtanny.com/

Profits from the CD sales will be considered to help fund a revival of the stream of DFSX, which has been off the air since July 2007. The cheapest package costs $10 a month, or $120 a year, so if I can sell 17 of my CDs in a year, that would pay for the stream for the year. Bigger packages would require more sales to fund them, or course.

I'm also considering putting the Mad Music Comedy Zone on the stream and have three past shows running successively all the time. They might be 56k mono, but it's better than nothing.

If you can't order my CDs via my website, you can send me a money order (no checks) for $12 to:

David Tanny
PO Box 19569
San Diego, CA 92159

Thanks to anybody who has been voting for my song "Pirate Radio" at The Mad Music Dementia Top 20. That will be on "Stupid Audio 6.0" this fall, as well as the "David Tanny 10th Anniversary Collection CD" coming later at about October 2008.

Visit the Mad Music Dementia Top 20 (no longer owned and operated by Clear Channel, er, I mean David Tanny), right here:
http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/top20voting.aspx

Hear some David Tanny samples on the Mad Music Archive here:
http://themadmusicarchive.com/artist_details.aspx?ArtistID=6109

You can request David Tanny songs for any comedy radio show. Just tell the deejays to get for the songs by e-mailing dfsx@dfsxradio.com to get the mp3s for airplay or streamcasting.

Visit David Tanny's myspace to hear more samples:
http://www.myspace.com/dtaudio

Thank you

The CD was originally slated for March 11, but was moved up to Feb 26. The reason the move to February 26? Because Valerie Bertinelli moved up the release of her book "Losing It and Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time" from April 8 to Feb 26, and I didn't feel that she should beat my Stupid Audio 5.0 release date, so not only did I move up the release date of my latest CD, I'm also soft-selling the CD three weeks early without publicizing it all over myspace and other places.

Season Four of "Sabrina" on DVD Announced

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Note: the first episode of Season Four features Britney Spears.

NEW CDs (Mar 13, 2008)

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"The DFS Today in History/DFS Web Stuff" TWO CD set contains Mega versions of "Today in History" and "The Event Chronology" as well as content from all of the active websites, plus stuff that used to be published on the web!

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