Tom Leykis News (Feb 3, 2012)

From Tom's Facebook post:

"This is the greatest day of the two years of The New Normal. After looking at over 100 possible locations, we have completed an agreement to open New Normal Studios. It will be the home to Gary & Dino, New Normal Rock, New Normal Music, Pure Pop Hits, The Tom Leykis Show, and whatever else we dream up. It will be, technologically, state-of-the-art. Think of me at noon tomorrow as I officially sign the papers.

"Dry runs for our content will begin at our new studios on or about March 1st. And, here is my little gift to those who have tried to f#%^ with our business. In addition to producing our own content, we will, on an hourly basis, be producing other people's content as well: commercials, voiceovers, infomercials and the like, and we will be undercutting the prices charged by others. If you have production needs, or if local brick & mortar radio stations or production houses are milking you dry, now's the time to let us know by writing info@newnormalnetwork.com.

"We have been on this journey for over six months. And, to the people in the traditional radio business who tried to gouge us or stall us off indefinitely or to tell us what we as tenants could or couldn't talk about on our own shows, as well as to the people who thought I was bluffing or big-timing, we respectfully say F#^# Y%* M$&$AF$^$AS. Now, we will not only do whatever the F%&# we want 24/7, we will expose each and every one of you d$^%s who thought we were desperate and tried to take advantage of us or muzzle us.

"THIS is one of the many stories you will want to hear about on The Tom Leykis Show when we return, beginning April 2nd."

Wiremania (Feb 3, 2012)

Radio Wires

Gary Lycan: British radio and TV personality (and sex therapist) Simone Bienne is a co-host on KROQ 106.7 FM's "Loveline," airing 10 p.m. to midnight Sunday-Thursday. The show is trying to broaden its appeal to talk-radio stations

Satelite Radio Turns Ten years Old

Your Comments on "Can AM Be Saved?"

UT San Diego: XX Radio host criticized for disparaging comments

Sports Wires

Super Bowl Halftime Bloopers: 10 Huge Mistakes on the Big Stage

Tech Wires

Meet Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook's Highest-Paid Employee

Facebook Creates a New Millionaire’s Club…And a Few Billionaires Too

From Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches

3 Ways Facebook Plans to Exploit Users

Top Tips to Tame Spam (and Bacn)

Facebook by the Numbers

How to identify fake Facebook accounts If you're interested in finding how secure your Facebook account is, give the Profile Protector a try, and don't hesitate to unfriend those people you don't actually know. http://www.profileprotector.com/.

Why Neil Young Hates MP3 — And What You Can Do About It

The Zuckerberg Mission

Wires

Consumer Wires

4 Reasons to Use Credit Cards Versus Debit Cards

Healthiest Fast Food Meals for Under $5. Taco Bell: Order tacos "al fresco." Wendy's: "Sour Cream and Chives Potatos". McDonald's: "Grilled Chicken Snack Wrap".

Five Foods You Should Never Eat Again (And What To Eat Instead)

Diet Soda A Day Linked With Higher Risk Of Stroke, Heart Attack

Allergan halts Lap-Band sales to 1-800-GET-THIN clinics

TV Wires

Celebrities Without Makeup

Daytime Confindential: The Revolution Averaging a Paltry 1.3 in Households so Far This Week; Down 43 Percent From OLTL. Talk about a Revou-LOSER! They should have brought back "Pyramid" and another game show instead. ABC blew it!

Twitter Gives GH’s Nancy Lee Grahn a Voice Quote from Nancy: "Twitter is a place for me to say what I think and get some response back. [Laughs] It's a place for me to vent about the Kardashians. And I have very funny and intelligent people responding to me, so it's like an ongoing dialogue, a conversation."

Misc Wires

See nano quadcopter robots swarm (video)

Wiremania (Feb 2, 2012)

Radio Wires

Radio-info: Lincoln Financial Media stations reportedly cut staff in Miami, other markets

Randy Dotinga: Behind NPR's most terrible year.

Forbes: Can Ryan Seacrest Save Clear Channel?. What if Seacrest owned Clear Channel?

New York Daily News: New York area radio hosts have fond, admiring memories of the late Don Cornelius and ‘Soul Train’.

Time: Don Cornelius Obit.

Radio Ink re: Don Cornelius: Audio-It All Started in 1966.

Can the AM Radio Band Be Saved?

Sports Wires

Dial Global All Pumped Up For Kickoff

TV Technology: No More Sports Blackouts, Maybe.

Tech Wires

Breakthrough: World’s most efficient solar panel

Consumer Wires

Woman wins small-claims suit over Honda Civic Hybrid

How Fit Are You? 3 Simple Tests to Find Out

Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say. A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

TV Wires

Don Cornelius inspired writer's love of soul

The ten most memorable Super Bowl commercials ever

Wiremania (Feb 1, 2012)

TV Wires

Paula Abdul Won’t Return To ‘X Factor’ In Season 2 Shakeup By Simon Cowell. Show host Steve Jones and judges Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul are out. Creator Simon Cowell reportedly wants to bring in different judges with more celebrity status. He also wants to differentiate the show more from the American Idol format. X Factor was actually a ratings success this season, averaging 12.6 million viewers and a 4.3 18-49 number, but it didn't live up to Cowell's lofty predictions of an average 20 million viewers. Fox sold advertising that fell short of guarantees by 40%. Why This Matters: Cowell's shake-up move is a message to the ad community meant to spur both marketers' confidence in the show's second season and a desire to continue to buy ad time in this year's upfront.

Sports Wires

Watch stunt driver score trick-shot goals with an ice-sliding Alfa Romeo (Video)

Super Bowl Ads: Preview of the Best

Hulu Plus: Will in Huluwood – Super Bowl Teaser

NFL Network Kicks Off 100 Hours of Super Bowl XLVI Coverage

Over 660 radio affiliates for Dial Global's coverage of Super Bowl XLVI. Kevin Harlan and Boomer Esiason lead the game-day coverage that will be tagged as “"Westwood One Sports on the Dial Global Radio Network", reflecting the 2011 purchase of the Westwood Networks division by Dial Global.

Biz Wires

The Beer Blind Taste Test

Consumer Wires

Save $900 on Cable

Should You Buy an Extended Warranty?

IRS Audit Red Flags: The Dirty Dozen. Here are 12 hot spots on your return that can raise the chances of scrutiny by the IRS.

Telecom monopoly overcharging Mexicans billions

Tech Wires

USA Today: Of smartphone owners, 68% open only five or fewer apps at least once a week, finds a survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. Seventeen percent don't use any apps. About 42% of all U.S. adults have phones with apps, Pew estimates. "The novelty wears off," says Pew researcher Kristen Purcell.

Wiremania (Jan 31, 2012)

Radio Wires

All Access: Arizona FM Goes All-Comedy

Sports Wires

North County Times: Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton has been a sports-talk staple in San Diego since he arrived from Phoenix in 1986.

SiriusXM Radio will broadcast Super Bowl XLVI in 10 languages, offering listeners 13 different live broadcasts plus a wide mix of sports and entertainment programming from Indianapolis throughout Super Bowl Week. Starting today, SiriusXM NFL Radio will broadcast live every day from the NFL’s Radio Row in Indianapolis, as well as live from Media Day at Lucas Oil Stadium on Tuesday, January 31. Visit www.siriusxm.com/superbowl fora complete rundown of SiriusXM's Super Bowl coverage.

Giants will win Super Bowl XLVI, predicts ‘Madden NFL 12?

Broadcasting and Cable: How Well Did NBC Do Broadcasting the Pro Bowl?

While Football Scores, Other Programmers Get Sacked

TV Wires

Jerry Seinfeld enlists the Soup Nazi in the Acura NSX’s Super Bowl ad

All Things D: Like Sports on Cable? Pay Up. Don’t Like Sports on Cable? Pay Up, Anyway. Disney and ESPN can charge that much because the cable guys, like Comcast, think the programming is worth it to their customer base. And they’re signing up long-term deals that will keep that fee structure in place for the next decade. But there is a chance that a “virtual” cable operator, using the Web, decides to offer a package that doesn’t include ESPN. They could either use that unspent money to lower customers’ bills, or plow it into other programming. Read the whole article at allthingsd.com

Los Angeles Times: AFTRA board approves SAG merger plan.

Tech Wires

Do You Have Facebook Fatigue?

The BlackBerry, Trying to Avoid the Hall of Fallen Giants

Consumer Wires

3 Surprising Reasons to Give Up Soda

40 Foods With Superpowers. Some listed: Alaskan King Crab, Oysters, Bananas, Broccoli, Spinach, Tea/Green Tea, Blueberries, Sweet Potatoes, Tomatoes, Mushrooms, Tofu, Eggs, Greek-Style Yogurt, Chocolate Milk, Wild Salmon, Pineapples, Olive Oil, Dark Chocolate, Wild Fatty Fish, Flaxseed, Almonds, Apples, and Whole Grains.

How Much Cable Nets Charge (Jan 31, 2012)

1. ESPN/ESPN HD $5.06 (affiliate fee per sub per month)
2. ESPN 3D $2.71
3. 3net (whatever that is) $1.29
4. TNT $1.21
5. Disney Channel 0.97
6. NFL Network 0.84
7. Fox News Network 0.82
8. ESPN2 0.67
9. USA 0.62
10. TBS 0.59
11. MGM HD 0.58
12. CNN en Espanol 0.58
13. CNN/HLN 0.57
14. Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite 0.52
15. HDNet 0.47
16. FX Network 0.46
17. HDNet Movies 0.38
18. Fox College Sports 0.39
19. MTV 0.39
20. BTN (whatever that is) 0.37
21. Discovery Channel 0.37
22. Sony Movie Channel 0.32
23. CNBC 0.32
24. Antena 3 (no clue what that is) 0.31
25. Lifetime 0.31

Eight is Enough Season 1 To Be Released on DVD (on April 17, 2012)

Eight is Enough Season 1
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The Heartwarming Classic Tv Series About A Tight-Knit Family With Eight Children Makes Its Highly-Anticipated Debut On Dvd

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DVD Features All Nine Season One Episodes in a Two-Disc Collector's Set

BURBANK, CA (January 10, 2012) - The Bradfords, one of television's best known and most loved families, are back for the first time to entertain viewers with their touching and memorable escapades on Warner Home Video's (WHV) DVD release of Eight Is Enough: The Complete First Season. Making its much-anticipated DVD debut on April 17, 2012, after long-standing requests from fans, Eight Is Enough is the top-rated classic television series that chronicles the lives of columnist Tom Bradford (Dick Van Patten), his wife and their eight children. Eight Is Enough: The Complete First Season will be comprised of all nine episodes from the show's first season on two discs. The DVD set will retail for $24.98 SRP.

Eight Is Enough is the enormously successful series that focuses on the Bradford family, an endearing clan of eight children and their parents who reside in suburban Sacramento, California. Tom, the patriarch of the family, is a newspaper columnist for the Sacramento Register, and their mother, Joan (Diana Hyland), is a busy homemaker. Their large household, which is always run with a lot of love and humor, is the source of their endless sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic exploits.

The Bradford kids vary in ages and personalities. Each one couldn't be more different than the next. The youngest, Nicholas (Adam Rich), is an adorable and precocious eight-year-old. Tommy (Willie Aames) is a charming and handsome teenager with rock-star looks. Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth (Connie Needham) is a graceful beauty with enviable long locks. Next is Nancy (Dianne Kay), a sweet, sunny blonde. Susan (Susan Richardson) is the athletic one. Joanie (Laurie Walters) is an aspiring actress. Mary (Lani O'Grady), the oldest Bradford girl, is a pre-med student. Last but not least is heartthrob David (Grant Goodeve), the eldest of the kids, who no longer lives at home but is deeply entwined in the lives of his siblings.

Eight Is Enough premiered on ABC in 1977 and became an instant hit with viewers. The top-rated show was based on a book by the same title, written by Thomas Braden, a syndicated newspaper columnist who also had eight children. The series pilot, included in this release, featured Star Wars star Mark Hamill in the role of eldest brother David, with Kimberly Beck as Nancy and Chris English in the role of Tommy. Eight Is Enough aired for five successful seasons.

"Eight Is Enough resonated with so many viewers because it offered something for everyone. With such a wide-ranging cast, there was always at least one character for everyone to relate to," said Rosemary Markson, WHV Vice President, TV and Special Interest Marketing. She added, "It was a show that shared a lot of humor but would also tackle some very serious subjects. It touched the hearts of viewers with its unforgettable storylines and talented actors. Family dynamics can be complicated, especially with eight kids, but no matter how chaotic things got in the Bradford household, this is the family so many of us wish we had grown up in. Eight Is Enough: The Complete First Season is a must-have for anyone who appreciates great TV."

DVD Bonus Material:

Cast Reunion Special

About Warner Home Video:
With operations in 90 international territories, Warner Home Video, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc., commands the largest home entertainment distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Video and New Line Cinema.

About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group:
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group brings together Warner Bros. Entertainment's home video, digital distribution, interactive entertainment/videogames, direct-to-DVD production, technical operations and anti-piracy businesses in order to maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. WBHEG is responsible for the global distribution of content through DVD, electronic sell-through and VOD, and delivery of theatrical content to wireless and online channels, and is also a significant worldwide publisher for both internal and third party videogame titles.

San Diego Radio News Unofficially Morphs Into Just SDN (Jan 10, 2012)

When HBO, CNN, ESPN, and all of the other cable networks first started out, each of the letters stood for something. Today, few people outside of the media industury care anymore.

When this blog first started on the now-defunct Geocities website in 1999 as Dave's Radio Waves, we just covered commentaries and observations about the San Diego radio news industry from an outside point of view. It also touched on television a bit.

When this blog started in 1999, we had Don Barrett's LA Radio website, John Fox's Fox Trots weekly web blog, Gary Lycan and Richard Wagoner covering Los Angeles radio news in print, Randy Dotinga doing his San Diego radio commentaries in print, and a few other websites covering some degree of radio industry news for the Los Angeles and San Diego areas. There was also All Access, CGC Communicator, Radio and Records, and others.

Today, we still have radiodailynews.com and allaccess.com, plus the CGC Communicator covering radio engineering news and notes, plus new websites that came in since then such as fmqb.com, radioink.com, sdradio.net run by Chris Carmichael, and radioinsight.com among others. John Fox has moved on, Don Barrett is in semi-retirement still updating his laradio.com website every now and then weeks after "retiring" in September of last year, Radio and Records folded into Billboard Biz in 2009, and others. We also got new upstarts like Kurt Hanson, Inside Radio, and others.

Back in 1999, we used to cover the world of funny music and comedy plus the Dr. Demento radio show. Nowadays, funny has been relegated to just visual entertainment such as movies, videos, and DVD releases, while funny audio recordings outside of "Weird Al" have disappearred into oblivion for today's generations. We no longer cover the world of funny music because of this.

As time marched on, Dave's Radio Waves changed names and locations into the present San Diego Radio News at sandiegoradionews.com (since 2003), and since last year, we decided that since radio industry news about San Diego and Los Angeles alone wasn't getting much reader interest, we decided to expand our hand-picked news links into covering other topics of interest. SDN has in a sense morphed into just SDN or SDRN as some readers prefer, but San Diego Radio News has unofficially morphed into more than just covering radio industury topics, as people are interested in media, especially sports media that is full of competetive drama within itself, and there are many websites covering various top stories about it each week.

SDN covers links to some tech news, television as an industry, consumer news, and other news we find interesting to note.

sandiegoradionews.com is still the home of just plain SDN. We still do radio industry links as well as commentaries and views, but now, the links cover more topics than it did before.

We want to thank our readers who stuck with what is now just plain SDN since 1999. Radio is still #1 as a topic, but if you want to contribute radio articles and links, even commentaries and thoughts for publication, feel free to use the "CONTACT" or "E-Mail" link. If you got some links about the cable industry carriage dispute dramas, automotive, sports media news, television industry, and more, send in those links. We also do hand-picked news from cnet, zdnet, wired, yahoo, and more.

For live news updates, check out our other subsite, Dave's Wires at http://news.davesfunstuff.com/.

We're not goint to change our name or website URL to confuse readers. We're still going to use sandiegoreadionews.com, and our name will remain SDN.

SDN Updates (Jan 4, 2012)

The 91X Top 91 of 2011 List (Jan 4)

The Dave's Fun Stuff Radio Top 100 of 2011 List (Jan 4)

The San Diego Radio/TV Snapshot of 2012 is published. Read the entire list here:
San Diego Radio/TV Snapshot 2012 (Jan 2)

The rtdb (Radio TV Database) is located at http://rtdb.davesfunstuff.com/

Mutterings (Jan 1, 2012)

The State of San Diego Radio Address 2012. Read it now!
15th Annual State of San Diego Radio Address (Jan 1, 2012)

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