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News Wires (Feb 16, 2002)Hollywood Reporter:GO>> Cablers mull TNT rate threat... Some cable operators are scratching their heads about Turner Broadcasting Systems' threat to block certain Turner Network Television programming to operators not willing to pay for the network's new rate increases. Turner said it will be hiking its TNT rates to cover rising programming costs. If operators balk at the rate hike, TNT said it might black out certain programming. Some cable operators are taken aback by Turner's blackout plan. "It's hard to imagine; it's an interesting but maybe a dangerous path to go down," said Frank Hughes, president of the National Cable Television Cooperative, which represents 10 million independent cable operators. "There are so many questions. If I don't take (TNT), what are my rates? And I if do take it, what are my rates?" Several operators wondered what TNT would run in place of the blacked-out shows. "Would it be a dark screen or alternative programing? Would there be a banner that says, 'Your operator has chosen not to air this program due to costs'?" one operator asked. (Jim McConville) Full story here... GO>>>
Zap2It: "Yup, Rosie's Gay" sez "The View"... 'The View' Outs Rosie O'Donnell! There's been a good amount of media speculation recently about whether talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell discusses her sexuality in her upcoming autobiography, and whether she will on her show. Such speculation may soon become a moot point, as the hosts of ABC's daytime chat show "The View" essentially outed her Thursday (Feb. 14), apparently with O'Donnell's OK. Barbara Walters said she had talked by phone with O'Donnell, according to the New York Post, and, saying that "We all love Rosie," proceeded to discuss O'Donnell's sexual orientation with her co-hosts. O'Donnell has never gone public about her preference, although her book, due in April, reportedly does deal with the matter. On the show, Walters said O'Donnell is not concerned about what people will think of her after learning she's gay, but she does worry about being able to adopt a foster child in Florida, where she has a home. The state bars homosexuals from adopting kids. Once her book hits shelves, it's expected O'Donnell will also talk about her sexuality on the air. She's leaving the talk show later this year, with comic Caroline Rhea slated to take over hosting duties.
ZENtertainment(tm): Cohen Talks the Semi-Cancellation of FUTURAMA... According to producer David X. Cohen, FUTURAMA has not been cancelled...sort of. GO>>
Messageboard: The New Supercool 94.3 (Feb 16, 2002)Re: Cool Radio (now "Supercool")Posted by 80s freak on 2/15/2002, 19:08:51 , in reply to "What time is Cool switching to alternative?" It seems like their playlist is as crappy as ever. Yep, they switched to alternative, and they seem to be a combination of KROQ and Star 98.7, minus a lot of the harder edged stuff of KROQ and the more Lilith Fair and Cheesy CHR stuff that Cool used to play and Star plays some of now. Unfortunately, I've heard about ten songs and THEY WERE ALL MADE WITHIN THE LAST FIVE YEARS OR SO. I haven't even heard any early 90s grunge. Pitiful! I was hoping their regular playlist would have some late 70s to early 90s alternative gold, since the station doesn't seem to be trying to appeal to the Limp Bizkit crowd who this music would offend and turn off the most (didn't an earlier post say they were trying to appeal to adults, which would imply some gold?) But NOOO. They have to be another current-only format, as if current alternative/modern AC music is not covered enough. Just what Orange County needed. I bet they don't even have a flashback show, which would make the new 94.3 even more worthless than it was before. Re: Cool Radio (now "Supercool") Posted by Ryan on 2/15/2002, 19:36:43 , in reply to "Re: Cool Radio (now "Supercool")" Well Im not real familiar with this music, but it sounds the same as it was. I can't tell the difference. I just think of it as a Local Star 98.7 type station because its more like that one then the station they talked about last week, KROQ. Modern AC... KYSR is a KROQ-LITE like this one. (Isn't that one not doing so hot latley anyways????) If they really wanted to change things they should've done what KCXX does in San Bernandino. Its a local alternative to KROQ. OC could've had its own X-103.9 type station. I guess theres one good thing that might come out of this.... No more disco on Saturday nights. Or they bringing THAT back too? LOL Michael Halloreen to take over KMXN 94.3/OC! Posted by BIG ONE on 2/15/2002, 5:34 pm Yes, the infamous Mike who oversaw 91X, KUPR, 92/5, Y107, and now 92/1 is adding PD duties at sister Astor station KMXN 94.3 a.k.a Cool 94-3. Expect a similar format and possibly staff changes too. Will let you know more as I get the info. Name: CHRles What's up everybody. I gotta tell you that I'm oving this board, and the people on it. A lot of good input is posted on this website, and I know you're all passionate about this musix. I was wondering if you could try posting here your top 5 or 10 favorite tunes of the moment. Here's my list
1) Jask "Beautiful"
Name: Slinky My top 5 most listened to dance songs at the moment:
5. Riva f/Danii Minogue - Who Do You Love
Name: mike r I've never heard of any of those. Where do you find all your music from!?! It always ends up being huge 5 or 6 months after you post it here. Top 5...
01 Sterbinszky, "1492/Fly Away With Me (Naski vs. Brunner Remix)"
Name: Metro
Off the top of my head, five that I've either added or will be adding to my show soon...
And five more I'm still playing...
* Iio - "Rapture (Tastes So Sweet)" (Creamer & Stephanie K Mix)
Name: Jared My Top 5:
5. Double N f/ Maria Rubia 'Forever and A Day'
Some others that I am liking:
Perpetuous Dreamer 'The Sound Of Goodbye'
Name: reggie
1- Iio- Rapture\\deep dish remix (still! since november i still cant get enough of this song)
Name: LM
5. Ian Van Dahl - Will I (Dee Dee)
RUSS
Funky Green Dogs You - Got Me (Burnin' Up)
Name: Mr. WHRW My Current Top 5
1. X-Press 2 Feat. David Byrne "Lazy"
Name: Lloydie Mine would be
1) Tillman Uhrmacher 'On The Run'
News Wires (Feb 16, 2002)Gavin - IndustryViacom Reports a 16 Percent Increase in Revenues... Company sees increased revenues but also reports $224 million net losses for 2001. News Wires (Feb 15, 2002)Inside Radio:GO>>> Sirius rolls out service in Denver, Houston, Jackson and Phoenix today.... ABC news anchor Sam Donaldson was the first voice to be heard on Sirius. The broadcast of "first songs" were then heard across Sirius' 100 commercial-free channels with many of them being exclusive live performances recorded at Sirius' New York City studios. Excerpts from Sirius' first day will be donated to the Museum of TV and Radio's permanent collection and will be available as part for the museums historic archives. Radio Spirits to distribute the CBS Classic Radio Show collection.... Radio Spirits, a subsidiary of MediaBay has entered into an agreement with CBS to broadcast, reproduce and distribute the CBS classic radio show collection. Radio Spirits will distribute via audio cassette, CD and radio broadcast formats to its extensive customer base which includes more than 600,000 mail order customers and 7,000 retail outlets along with syndicated radio broadcasts to more than 3 million listeners nationwide. Under the terms, CBS has agreed to not authorize others to distribute the programs. News Wires (Feb 15, 2002)Wang-NetGO>>> Longtime PD leaves Astor's OC Station... It was Cool while it lasted ... programmer and afternoon jock Craig Powers has left the building at Art Astor's KMXN (Cool 94.3 FM) in Orange County. And that, apparently, spells the end for the format (it's supposed to change today, so we'll both find out at the same time). Replacing Powers is Mike Halloran, former swinger (fill-in/weekend) personality at KROQ (106.7 FM), who has been programming Astor's KFSD-FM in North County San Diego for the past year or so. Halloran has done well with "Premium Radio" in North County, and Astor wants him to work the same magic on his Orange County station. He'll have his work cut out for him: no matter how good the format, 94.3 just doesn't have a very good signal, and gets trounced by a Spanish station on the same frequency from Northern Los Angeles County. I'll be honest: I'll miss Cool. I liked it. I never thought it was as good as Anaheim's Mix 95.9, however, so I am looking forward to hearing how the new format on 94.3 will sound ... Astor calls it "adult alternative" with a sound "like the old Mix ... but more spiffy." Anything like the Mix -- especially if they could get back some (or all) of the Mix personalities, some of whom happen to work in San Diego radio -- would make me happy. I haven't heard a good new song since Mix went fishing 18 months ago. Hopefully they'll have an overnight DJ as the Mix did with Krishna; Premium Radio runs jockless overnights and it really takes away from the presentation. The music is good however; it should be interesting. It would also be nice if they could think of a better name than "Cool" or "Premium." Correction... A few weeks ago I mentioned that the KFXM call letters were being preserved on an FM station in Temecula. Turns out I am wrong. Former KEZY (now KFSH, 95.9 FM) personality John Fox wrote in to tell me that Clear Channel bought the station and dropped the calls so they could simulcast KGB/San Diego on the station. New calls: KGBB. Figures. Whenever The Evil Empire gets involved, everything gets messed up. Return of the Jedi... Bryan Simmons has been hired for weekends on KBIG (104.3 FM) ... just a few months after he was fired from KOST (103.5 FM), a station that is not only owned by the same owner (The Evil Empire), it is also programmed by the same person (Jhani Kaye). Simmons never should have been let go in the first place. But then again, The Evil Empire should not be allowed to own radio stations. Somehow there has to be a cost-cutting move involved here ...
Inside Radio: Sets 102 Update (Feb 15, 2002)*BLUES BY THE BAY AT SEAPORT VILLAGE, FREE FOR THE FAMILYBlues By the Bay is back, it's free for the whole family, and it's each Saturday in February at Seaport Village. Join us from 4-6pm for Michele Lundeen and Blues Streak Saturday afternoon February 16th. We'll be rocking in front of the carousel at SEAPORT Village. To get more Information... Click the link below for the SETS 102 Concerts Page. http://www.sets102.com/ConcertsPage.htm *BLUES PARTY AFTER BLUES BY THE BAY AT HUMPHREYS BY THE BAY! Now that Michele Lundeen and Blues Streak have got you all pumped up and ready to go, head over to Humphrey's by the Bay and join Madison & Michele Lundeen at the President's Day Blues Party, Saturday night from 6pm til closing time! For more information, click the following link to see the SETS 102 Concert Calendar. http://www.sets102.com/ConcertsPage.htm >*SECTION 102 - OUR ONLINE TICKET SECTION- 'Dave Matthews Band' is coming to COORS AMPHITHEATRE Monday, May 13th! Tickets go on sale Saturday, February 16th at 10am. Available from 10-12noon at the Coors Amphitheatre Box Office and Ticketmaster 10am til close 619-220-TIXS! Win'em Before You Can Buy 'em in SECTION 102 on http://www.sets102.com 'Midnight Oil' is coming to 4TH & B on Wednesday, March 20th! Tickets go on sale for this show Friday, February 15th at 10am! Available at the Box Office 619-231-4343 and Ticketmaster 619-220-TIXS! For more concert information click on the link below. http://www.sets102.com/section_102.htm *CONCERTS John Mayer is coming to Canes Tuesday, April 2nd. Tickets go on-sale, Friday, February 8th. For more information and to see who's coming to San Diego this week. http://www.sets102.com/ConcertsPage.htm News Wires (Feb 15, 2002)Radio Business Report:GO>>> TV clutter up, says AAAA's (2/14)... At the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA's) 9th annual Media Conference & Trade Show in Orlando, the annual TV Commercial Monitoring Report was unveiled. The study, done by the AAAAs and the Association of National Advertisers said ad clutter for TV networks in 2001 reached an all-time high in early morning, daytime and local news; and was up in all dayparts except Primetime. Early morning daypart clutter was up to 18:02 minutes per hour, from 17:44 the year before; daytime was up to 20:57 minutes, from 20:03; local news was up to 17:10 from 17:05. Primetime was down to 16:08 from 16:17.
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News Wires (Feb 14, 2002)Yahoo Entertainment:GO>> ABC Renews 'NYPD Blue' for 10th Season... LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - ABC will stay true to "NYPD Blue (news - Y! TV)" and prime-time show creators Steven Bochco and David Milch for yet another season, the network said on Wednesday. The decision to renew the show means it will be back for a 10th season this fall, making it one of the longest-running drama series in prime time television. The program has endured time changes and late season debuts that have often put Bochco and ABC at odds. Most recently, ABC made the controversial decision of putting the show up head-to-head with NBC's hit series "Frasier." "In moving 'NYPD Blue' to 9 p.m. this season, we asked a lot of Steven and his team," said Susan Lyne, president of ABC Entertainment. "But in one of the most competitive time slots of the week, 'Blue' remains a powerful draw." The gritty cop show set in New York attracts an average of 13.4 million viewers each week in its Tuesday night time slot, making it one of the evening's highest-rated shows and the 22nd most popular show in prime time, according to television data tracking firm Nielsen Media Research. Since its debut in 1993, "Blue" has received 82 Emmy nominations and won 19 awards. Carson Daly Pulls Double Duty... NBC and E! Entertainment Television have reached a deal that will see the teenybopper poster boy's new late-night show, Last Call with Carson Daly, air on E! just hours after running on NBC. It's the first time in TV history that a broadcast network's late-night show will repeat on a cable network the same day. The Last Call airing at 1:35 a.m. ET/PT on NBC will rerun at 6 p.m. ET/PT on E! The deal kicks in March 4. Because Daly's gabfest runs only four days a week (Monday-Thursday), E! will also mix in older episodes during the week. In addition, E! will also broadcast Last Call reruns over the weekend. Daly's show features him and a single guest chatting it up for a half-hour in front of a live studio audience in New York. Gwyneth Paltrow, Alicia Keys, Heidi Klum, Dick Clark, Kid Rock and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs are among those who've appeared so far. ''Futurama'' Cancelled?... The underrated animated adventure set in the future is currently waiting to see if it has one. FOX has decided not to pick up the animated series "Futurama," although the network stresses that the show is not cancelled. "FOX has decided not to order more episodes at this time, but we may do so in the future," a FOX spokeswoman tells Zap2it.com Fox Broadcasting has told the cartoon's executive producer, Matt Groening, that it can't immediately commit to ordering any additional episodes beyond those that have already been produced for this season and next. Because of the long leadtime for animated projects, Groening needed a commitment this month in order to keep the show's scribes on staff and the skein in production for the 2003-04 season. The network could still order more episodes down the line, though that seems a long shot. The final call on whether to revive the series should Fox order more episodes would be Groening's. Of the 72 episodes of ``Futurama'' in the can, only 48 have aired. The show was preempted through most of the fall and early winter due to NFL overruns; a similar air pattern will likely reduce the number of episodes that'll air next year. Despite virtually no promotion and frequent preemptions, ``Futurama'' has still managed to win its 7 p.m. Sunday slot this season in teens, adults 18-34 and adults 18-49. Executives at producer 20th Century Fox TV have already had early talks about launching the show in syndication, though no deals are close. With a number of episodes in the can that have never aired, "Futurama" will remain on the air for still some time. When the current season ends in May, FOX will have approximately 14 additional new episodes of the series, which it plans to air next fall. FOX's decision not to pick up additional episodes, led the production company Rough Draft to fire its animators, according to the fansite www.GotFuturama.com. In an attempt to save the show, the website has started on online petition to save the show, which pulled over 20,000 signatures after just 17 hours. Created by Matt Groening ("The Simpsons"), "Futurama" premiered in 1999 to solid, but not outstanding numbers. Airing at a new time Sundays at 7 p.m., the comedy has averaged 6.4 million viewers per week, season-to-date. In comparison, "The Simpsons" averages 12.8 million viewers at 8 p.m. and "King of the Hill" pulls 8.6 million at 7:30 p.m. Shows On The Bubble (2-12-02)TV Shows Circling the Drain...From MediaWeek Waiting in the Wings of Potential Cancellation:... Following the demise of the WB's upcoming Felicity (the final two-hour installment will air on May 22), other established series potentially facing the axe include ABC's Dharma & Greg, The Job, Once and Again and Spin City; CBS's Touched by an Angel, Family Law and That's Life; NBC's Three Sisters; Fox's Ally McBeal, Dark Angel and The X-Files; the WB's Angel, Dawson's Creek, Nikki and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and The Hughleys and Special Unit 2 on UPN. Futurama Done With? This is just a rumor from TV Barn: According to multiple sources, including http://www.gotfuturama.com all the animators were let go after fox didn't renew for a 5th season. The current rumor is that there will be a 5th season, comprising of the episodes made for the 4th season that won't be shown this season (so far this year they've shown only 4 new episodes). News Wires (Feb 14, 2002)Gavin - IndustryGO>>> Arbitron Releases January Webcast Ratings...January data ranks Virgin Radio as number one channel, Live365 as number one network. Arbitron today announced that United Kingdom based Virgin Radio was the top ranked single channel in Arbitron's January Webcast Ratings, with 958,000 aggregate tuning hours (ATH), the sum total of all hours that listeners tune to a given channel. In the January Arbitron network ratings, Live365 ranked first for the fifth consecutive month with 5,702,600 ATH.
Brief History of KMIR 36 (Feb 13, 2002)An NBC affiliate, KMIR-TV 36, cable 6, is one of two major network affiliates serving the growing Palm Springs/Coachella Valley market.KMIR was the first television station on the air in the market, signing on in October 1968. That lasting heritage, coupled with the station's commitment to strong local news coverage, makes KMIR a growing and vital part of Palm Springs and the surrounding communities in the Coachella Valley. Known as the golf capitol of the world, the Palm Springs market boasts a healthy tourism industry, which has contributed to the area's rapid growth. It was only a matter of time before somebody decided to put a TV station or two in the Coachella valley. Before 1968, the only way to be able to watch TV was to hook up the TV set in the valley to a cable TV service. The closest stations were a good 120 miles away in Los Angeles, where there were seven VHF and a few UHF stations actively broadcasting, and one station in El Centro broadcasting CBS programming on channel 9, 100 miles to the south. Unless you had a roof antenna, and a line of sight with no hills sitting between you and the distant cities, you could get nothing but static on all of the channels there. Because of the distance from the cities with television signals, the Coachella Valley is among the highest cabled metropolitian areas, if not the most cabled, in the nation, with an estimated subscription rate of 90 percent of all households with at least one TV set. The Coachella Valley's only two network television stations began broadcasting virtually simultaneously in 1968. KMIR-TV picked the NBC affilliation, while KPLM-TV 42 (now KESQ-TV) chose the ABC affilliation. Some areas just south of the Coachella valley could also get KECY channel 9, which was then a CBS affilliate. Back in 1968, both of the Palm Springs stations claimed to be the first station to get on the air first in the area. There was also a historic incident that aired in the first two weeks of KMIR that almost got their licence revoked by the FCC, but they somehow lucked out. KPLM-TV co-founder Bob Leonard would love to forget (if only he could) another early-days event at his station, one that became a national story and left almost everybody in the country - except himself - rolling on the floor in glee. The notoriety put Palm Springs on the map, but it nearly cost KPLM its license. It was midnight on the final Saturday of the ABC-covered '68 Mexico City Olympic Games. KPLM had just signed off for the night and the lone engineer at the Edom Hill transmitter routinely threw a switch that took the station off the air - he thought. He then alerted his buddy back at the studio and, together, they proceeded to screen a short, blatantly pornographic movie on what they assumed was a securely closed circuit. Wrong! "What a klutz that engineer was," sighs Mr. Leonard (still torn between amusement and fury). "Technically, they were off the `air,' all right, but they were NOT off the cable! He'd forgotten to flip that switch." Since nearly every desert TV set was cable-linked in 1968 - cable was the only way to pick up L.A. stations locally - this super-illegal impromptu broadcast flowed unimpeded to practically the entire valley for its full 10-minute duration. Stag flicks were brief and to the point back then, but these were still the longest, not to mention breathiest, 10 minutes in the history of desert television. And here's the weird part: While the movie was running, not a single viewer telephoned to complain. Not one! Seconds after it concluded, naturally, they suddenly recalled their civic duty and reached for their phones. KPLM's switchboard belatedly lit up like NORAD on red alert. "A Palm Springs cop was watching it at a downtown bar," marvels Mr. Leonard. "There wasn't a peep out of him until the show was over. Ditto, hundreds of other viewers. Can you believe it? They waited for the movie to end before flooding the switchboard with outraged calls. Each caller said he was `shocked, absolutely shocked!' Our idiot engineer fled in a panic, pausing only to throw his film into a lake. I guess he thought he'd get rid of the evidence. We fired him, of course. A lot of good that did. "I wasn't at home when I heard about it. Needless to say, it was a miserable weekend. Sure enough, Monday morning the FBI came calling. We could have lost our network affiliation and our FCC license, been put out business almost before we'd started. In the end, though, we were very lucky; we had to pay a hefty fine, but that was all. Meanwhile, the wire services picked up the tale and whole country, including Johnny Carson, thought it was a hoot - especially the fact that nobody called till the film was over. I still cringe at the memory." Ah, the good old days. What a spectacular way for a new TV station to begin its broadcasting life. And it happened right here in our cozy valley! To this day, we live in the only television market in the United States that ever showed an out-and-out dirty movie on a regular commercial channel. Who says the desert is stodgy? Viacom To Purchase Young's KCAL 9 for $600 Million (Feb 13, 2002)The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that Viacom Inc, owner of the CBS and UPN networks, as well as the owner of KCBS 2 in Los Angeles, plus seven radio stations in the basin (one has to be sold, more about that in a minute), is purchasing KCAL channel 9, the last independent major broadcast station in the Los Angeles market, from Young Broadcasting Inc. for a rumored price of $600 million.Under the proposed agreement, Viacom, which owns CBS and its Los Angeles outlet KCBS-TV Channel 2, would operate both local stations, under what is known as a duopoly. KCAL's centerpiece is a three-hour prime-time news block, largely because the station has lacked the resources to bid aggressively for programming against other local broadcasters, which are affiliated with networks. KCAL is the only independent VHF outlet (stations positioned from Channels 2 through 13) in the nation's second-largest television market. Many independents are on the UHF band including long time English-language independent KDOC 56, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this September. Since Viacom owns CBS and the fledgling UPN network, the company would eventually seek to move the UPN affilliation, currently on Fox-owned KCOP channel 13 (formerly owned by Chris Craft Industries) to KCAL 9. KCOP Channel 13, the current UPN affiliate, was acquired last year by News Corp., the parent of the Fox television network, which also owns KTTV Channel 11. There was also a rumor last year that once Fox bought channel 13 and seven other UPN affilliates nationwide from Chris Craft that Fox would not renew the affiliation to carry UPN programming on its newly-acquired stations. Relaxation of Federal Communications Commission regulations in 1999 has allowed broadcast groups to operate two television stations in a market, provided that there were at least eight broadcast groups still present in the area after the acquisition of another broadcast group's television station property. The rule, basically, eliminated a rule that prevented duopolies--that is, a single entity owning two television stations in a single market. In the economy where broadcasters are less able to compete with multi-casted cable channels nowadays, one group operating two stations in a market gives both stations better ability to compete against cable by combining resources and streamlining operating costs. Just as News Corp is operating channels 11 and 13 in Los Angeles, Viacom would do the same with channels 2 and 9. Also earlier, General Electric Co., owner of NBC-TV and KNBC Channel 4 in Los Angeles, recently agreed to acquire the Spanish-language Telemundo network and its Los Angeles outlet, KVEA. Combining two stations under one roof also allows more leverage in negotiating for program rights and the sale of advertising time. Up until 1996, before duopoly restrictions were lifted, KCAL was owned by the house of the mouse, the Walt Disney Co. The year before, when Disney got the properties of the ABC television network and it's O&O outlets including KABC 7 when it purchased its parent owner, Capital Cities ABC, Disney was forced to put KCAL on the selling block. Young bought KCAL from Disney for $385 million. KCAL programs a mix of news and syndicated programming, as well as braodcast rights to the Los Angeles Lakers and the California Angels, the latter owned by Disney. KCOP's contract to carry UPN programming expires in the summer of 2003, at which time, the UPN affilliation could migrate to KCAL, while KCAL may either keep both sports rights properties with reduced schedules to accomodate the UPN program sked on Mondays through Fridays (KCAL could put some UPN programming on Saturdays and Sundays when their sports programs air in prime time), or let KCOP or another station have one of its sports rights and keep the other as a ratings draw to promote its UPN programming. Tribune-owned KTLA 5, which broadcasts Fox-owned Dodger games, carries some of its bumped WB programming on Saturday or Sunday nights when the baseball games air in prime time. Viacom Would Have to Divest One Radio Station (Feb 13, 2002)In order to gain FCC approval of the purchase of KCAL 9, Viacom would have to put one of its radio stations in the Los Angeles market on the selling block, as FCC rules allow a broadcast group to own 3 AM and 5FM or 4 AM and 4 FM stations if they don't own a TV station like Clear Channel owns just the eight stations in the market. If the broadcast group owns one TV station in the market, then the rule is 2 AM and 5 FM, 3 AM and 4 FM, or 4 AM and 3 FM in the market. If Viacom would own two stations in the market, then only six radio stations can be owned and operated in the market (max 4 AM or 5 FM totalling six stations).At one time, before Viacom purchased Westinghouse/CBS, the latter group could keep the one TV and eight radio stations in the market when the revised duopoly rule went into effect. Westinghouse/CBS was given grandfathered status when the 1999 rule went into effect, allowing the company to not bother with the sale of one of its stations. When Viacom acquired Westinghouse/CBS, Viacom, not having the grandfathered rule in Los Angeles, had to sell one of its stations to meet the limit. It sold then-KRLA 1110 to Disney shortly afterwards. Now, with Viacom owning two channels, another station would have to be sold off. What radio station would Viacom sell? Let's take a look at what we have... KNX 1070 - chances of selling this clear channel (note small letters) 50,000 watt radio station: slim to none. KFWB 980 - this former Westinghouse property could be a candidate for selling. It's unlikely that Viacom would sell any of its valuable FM properties, KCBS-FM 93.1, KTWV 94.7, KROQ 106.7, KRTH 101.1, and KLSX 97.1 due to their high worth to their bottom line. Private Concert with Robert Bradley Sunday (Feb 12, 2002)Selected Sets 102 Registered Listeners will be in for a treat this coming Sunday when Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise is performing a special private concert for the radio statoin. It will be recorded for their SETS Without A Net series, that is also being videotaped for County Television Network to be aired in the not too distant future. Madison will be hosting the event.Messageboard Chatter: Wayback Machine Playlists (Feb 13, 2002)And now kids, let's go visit the messageboards and read some of the stuff people are talking about.FORUM HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.............. from the independent.fm messageboard... Note: Brian Jones hosts "Wayback Machine" on 92.1 Saturday mornings from 6-9am, if you can get up that early to listen to it. Here are two playlists for you to get some idea what the show is all about, playing alternative songs from the late 60's through the early 80's. WAYBACK MACHINE PLAYLIST 2/2/2 6AM CLASH - CAREER OPPORTUNITIES CLASH - CAREER OPPORTUNITIES (BABY REMIX) PIXIES MONKEY GONE TO HEAVEN NADA SURF POPULAR LAURIE ANDERSON SHARKEYS NIGHT (LONG VERSION) RITA MARLEY ONE DRAW PETER GABRIEL MODERN LOVE RUBY TINY MEAT THE BEAT ROCK N ROLL GIRL THE BEAT I DONT FIT IN JAMES BROWN NIGHT TRAIN SHRIEKBACK SHARKWALK BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE SIGHT SEE MC HUSKER DU ICE COLD ICE PATTI SMITH GROUP ROCK AND ROLL STAR ROXY MUSIC PYJAMARAMA AZTEC CAMERA JUMP 7AM JOE JACKSON - ON YOUR RADIO JOE JACKSON - WILD WEST JOE JACKSON - MEMPHIS JOE JACKSON BIOLOGY JOE JACKSON ME AND YOU AGAINST THE WORLD LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH OPEN YOUR EYES RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE BITING MY NAILS LOVE SPIT LOVE HOW SOON IS NOW MORRISEY OUIJA BOARD POLICE MASAKO TANGO DAVID BOWIE THE HEARTS FILTHY LESSON TALKING HEADS CITIES B52S - LOVELAND 8AM AC/DC ROCK AND ROLL DAMNATION ELVIS COSTELLO BEATEN TO THE PUNCH MATTHEW SWEET DIVINE INTERVENTION ELECTRONIC BEING BORING SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES THE PASSENGER BONZO GOES TO WASHINGTON 5 MINUTES SMITHEREENS BLUE PERIOD MINISTRY NWO DEAD KENNEDYS CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES THE THE UNCERTAIN SMILE MADNESS NIGHT BOAT TO CAIRO PRETENDERS PACK IT UP ROY MONTRELL THAT MELLOW SAXAPHONE U2 DANCING BAREFOOT WAYBACK MACHINE PLAYLIST 02/09/02 6AM CLASH THIS IS RADIO CLASH SINGLE GUN THEORY METAPHYSICAL SPLIT ENZ WALKING THROUGH THE RUINS U2 DESIRE (HOLLYWOOD REMIX) WALL OF VOODOO SPY WORLD BLACK UHURU SENSIMILLA CURE LULLABYE ANGELO BADLAMENTI A REAL INDICATION FRANK ZAPPA NANOOK OF THE NORTH/ COSMIC DEBRIS HEADBOYS THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME DE LA SOUL EYE KNOW 7AM BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE JUST PLAY MUSIC BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE ROCK NON STOP BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - APPLECART BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE V THIRTEEN SOUL COUGHING - UNMARKED HELICOPTERS THE LYRES I WANT TO HELP YOU, ANN THE JAM ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS XTC LIFE BEGINS AT THE HOP BLONDIE IM NOT LIVIN IN THE REAL WORLD SEX PISTOLS PRETTY VACANT SIMPLE MINDS THE KICK INSIDE ME BEN FOLDS 5 KATE JULIAN COPE CHARLOTTE ANNE BLOW MONKEYS FORBIDDEN FRUIT 8AM HUSKER DU COULD YOU BE THE ONE PRETENDERS WHERE HAS EVERYBODY GONE ELVIS COSTELLO PILLS AND SOAP TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS RESTLESS SCREAMING TREES I NEARLY LOST YOU SMITHS HAND IN GLOVE MATERIAL ISSUE DIANE THE DICKIES YOU DRIVE ME APE, YOU BIG GORILLA CURTIS MAYFIELD FREDDIES DEAD CURTIS MAYFIELD IM YOUR PUSHERMAN TALKING HEADS HOUSES IN MOTION PAUL WESTERBURG DYSLEXIC HEART THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS PARTICLE MAN BRYAN FERRY WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES BJORK ITS SO QUIET THE CRAMPS GOO GOO MUCK Radio Wires (Feb 12, 2002)Personal TechGO>>> A wave of video piracy... Derek Martin's selection of cable channels does not include MTV, but that has posed no obstacle to his enjoying the network's comedy show "Jackass." Cool 94.3 To Change Formats Friday (Feb 12, 2002)From the SC Groove BoardBecause...you, the L.A. radio fan...have every right to know. Re: Cool Radio goes Alternative this Friday-here's the scoop Posted by SuperRadioFan From Don Barrett's column: Cool 94.3fm Cooled Off (February 11, 2002) Craig Powers, pd of KMXN (COOL 94.3fm) has exited the Orange County station. Mike Halloran (ex-KROQ, Y107) is taking over. Art Astor, owner of KMXN, told Gary Lycan of the Orange County Register last night that he had been thinking about making a change for "several months." Meanwhile, Halloran has been programming the Astor station in North San Diego County and the station is in the Top 10 and he wanted to put the same format on the Orange County outlet. When asked to describe the format to Lycan, Astor said that it will be "Adult Alternative" and sound like the "old MIX" (format on KEZY/FM), but "more spiffy." Art praised Craig who "did a very good job with the Country format and did his best with Hot AC." Art believe with KROQ being #1, the new format, which unveils on Friday, will "get numbers." The target audience is Adults 25-44. SRF- (I have liked every station Halloran has programmed) The Who in Concert (Feb 12, 2002)The Who will be playing at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, June 29th, and at the Hollywood Bowl, July 1st.Tickets go on sale this Sunday, February 17th, at 10am at all Ticketmaster outlets! Radio station KLOS 95.5 will be giving their listeners chances to win tickets to the event before they can buy them, and as an extra bonus, all winners will qualify for a pair of tickets in the FRONT ROW!
Visit KLOS's website for other stuff Orange County's KOCE Airs Palm Springs-Aimed Series (Feb 12, 2002)KOCE, which airs on channel 50 in Orange County, has a translator station in the Palm Springs area to bring PBS programming into the desert valley on channel 55.So would it make sense to serve the distant metropolis with some programming aimed there? Certainly. It also serves to give the Orange and Los Angeles County folks some ideas about what to do in the city 120 miles east of where they live. The Desert Cities Report, airs every Thursday at 7:20 & 11:20 pm, and Friday at 7:20 am, right after Real Orange. This special segment is designed for KOCE's Desert Cities viewers. Joni Ravenna, Palm Springs resident and long time Fox Sports, Travel Channel and ESPN personality, hosts the short, informative segments that focus on special events and spectacular places to stay, dine, shop and play in Southern California's world famous desert resort. KOCE is on Time Warner Cable Channel 24 in Palm Springs, and Cable Channel 16 in the Desert Cities/Coachella Valley. The Desert Cities Report is made possible by grants from Raven Productions, Shilo Inns, Palm Springs Life Magazine, Riviera Resort, The City of La Quinta and City of Rancho Mirage Source: koce.com News Wires (Feb 12, 2002)Radio & Records (includes Arbitrons)GO>>> "The Telecommunications Act of 1996 became law on Feb. 8, 1996. A half-dozen years later, what do industry leaders think of deregulation? "Owning a bunch of stations, we've gotten into severe cost-cutting from a programming standpoint," Citadel CEO Larry Wilson (pictured) tells R&R ONLINE. "Trying to take talent in one location and put it into 50 locations is okay sometimes, if it's superstar talent. But in a lot of cases that person can't reach out and touch the listeners in the local community." Still, Wilson believes that most people have maintained localism. "I think there are isolated examples where the listeners isn't better off, but overall it's been a very good thing." Read more in next week's R&R newspaper.
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News Bytes (2-12-02)Electronic Media:GO>> Murdoch says News Corp. paid too much for sports rights: News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch conceded he overpaid for his football, baseball and NASCAR rights, for which the company late Tuesday reported it will take a $909 million write-off in its fiscal second quarter. MORE >> 'Friends' back for ninth and final season: The stars of NBC's top-rated "Friends" will be staying together for one more season, with 30 percent-plus pay hikes for each of the six cast members' current $750,000-per-episode paychecks. MORE >> 'Futurama' future uncertain: There is increasing speculation in Hollywood about how much future is left in Fox's "Futurama." Sources close to the show said producers and writers for the 8 p.m.-to-8:30 p.m. Sunday (ET) show have been given pink slips, told by Fox that the show is ceasing production. MORE >>
ZENtertainment(tm): News Bytes (2-11-02)Rachael doesn't die, Friends reups for 9th and final season (various newswires)ABC pulls "Millionaire" from Monday lineup (2-12-02)ABC is pulling "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" from its Monday lineup and replacing the ailing game show with an hourlong comedy block."Millionaire," once the linchpin of ABC's schedule, will still air on Thursdays, a night owned by NBC and CBS. The show bowed as a series in January 2000 and immediately threw a lifeline to ABC, which sometimes aired it seven nights a week. The quizzer eventually wore out its welcome, particularly among young viewers, and the other networks replied with their own reality rivals. ABC's new Monday lineup will kick off March 4 at 8 with repeats and some original episodes of the Damon Wayans sitcom "My Wife and Kids." It'll be followed at 8:30 by the return of "The Wayne Brady Show," a half-hour variety/sketch show that tested well during a summer run. Rookie quizzer "The Chair" will move from its current Tuesday slot to a 9 p.m. Monday perch. ABC will return to comedies from 8-9 p.m. on Tuesdays starting next month. As previously announced, "Once and Again" will air Mondays at 10. The entire Monday schedule will air for seven weeks, with ABC returning to movies and specs come May. The midseason drama "The Court" doesn't have a formal time slot yet, but there's speculation ABC will rest 10 p.m. Tuesday hour "Philly" to air "The Court" in April. The plan would eliminate repeats of "Philly," allowing for original episodes of the Kim Delaney drama in May. News From ZENtertainment(tm) (2-11-02)To subscribe, send an e-mail to ZENtertainment-owner@yahoogroups.com or visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZENtertainment for further details.Visit their website at http://www.ZENtertainment.com/ Copyright and Credit: All Contents Copyright 1995-2001 ZENtertainment. All Rights Reserved. ZENtertainment is a Trademark of Sean Jordan. Excerpts Used with Permission by the List Owner. These twice-weekly reports run about 40-50,000 bytes long covering TV, Movies, Books, and others. Oscar Nominees Announced Today - All the major news shows will be covering the ACADEMY AWARD nominations, announced this Tuesday morning at 5:30am ET. Personally, I recommend checking out E!'s coverage with Andy Jones, as he knows his stuff, but I'm also partial to George Pinachio here on ABC in L.A.... http://www.oscar.com http://www.eonline.com ABC Announces New Monday Night Lineup - ABC will premiere a new Monday night lineup on March 4th featuring MY WIFE AND KIDS at 8, THE WAYNE BRADY SHOW at 8:30, THE CHAIR at 9, and ONCE AND AGAIN at 10. ZEN QUICK HITS: - The series finale of THE STEVE HARVEY SHOW airs Sunday News Wires (Feb 11, 2002)Radio Business Report:GO>>> Dallas pirate playin' the Oldies... The Dallas Morning News reports Dallas has a new pirate at 102.5 mHz, airing a mix of rock 'n' roll from the '50s-'70s, along with a bunch of old radio spots. No live voices ever appear, and no station ID ever airs. It's unclear how long the station has been broadcasting, but the FCC tells the paper it's aware of the broadcasts and is investigating. Expanding into Palm Springs (Feb 11, 2002)So far, this page will be slow, as I fill in this section with radio and TV bytes that doesn't fit the San Diego or Los Angeles radio pages. Since there are no websites that I know of that covers Palm Springs radio, I figure that with the help of the readers, we together can put together a section dedicated to the television and radio media in the Coachella valley area.Radio and television in the Coachella valley grew noticably in the past 20 years since I first visited this desert metropolis in 1981, back when there were about ten fewer radio stations, and only two TV stations in the area (channels 36 and 42). Cable TV had mostly the Los Angeles stations in addition to the two stations, plus HBO, Nickelodeon, CNN, and ESPN, plus access channel 10 was just about it. Palm Springs Radio and TV TodayThis past week, I received a TV Guide from the Coachella Valley from a reader, and that prompted me to take a trip into the desert valley, when it's now cool enough in the daytime, to see how much the area grew in terms of how many TV and radio stations were added since the last time I visited the area in 1998.The first thing I did once I entered the city limits on highway 111? After flipping around the dial to see what the radio skyline looked like (a religious translator on 101.5 silenced Dave Rickards and the DSC gang there, ha!), I flipped on the portable TV and turned around to see what the TV culture was like up there, just 80 miles north east of San Diego. I started with channel 2, and got nothing but static; too far away to get KCBS from L.A. I turned on channel 3 and also got nothing. Then I flipped to channel 4 and got KVER-LP out of Indio with Univision programming. The transmitter was low powered, so from where I was at on the western end of the Coachella Metro area, the signal was scratchy. Channel 5 out of Indio just started up this past January, bringing in programming from the new Telefutura spanish network to the area. It's also a low power station from Indio. Last time I was in Indio in 1991, channel 6 was airing Galavision progamming, but I didn't stay long enough to check if it was still on there. Not sure if it's from Big Bear or Indio where I got the signal, so I guessed Indio. Turning to the VHF-HI band, I flipped on channel 7 and got static. Channel 8..static. Channel 9 had some signal trace, but I was not sure if it was from KCAL Los Angeles or KECY out of El Centro. Channel 10 had nothing, but a low power station was to sign on when it bowed out after withdrawling its FCC application. Channel 11 had static, so did 13, but there was a low power station on Channel 12 playing some shopping channel format, whatever it is. I took note of the website it advertised: http://www.americasstore.com/ Going to the UHF band, I came across KUNA-LP channel 15 airing Telemundo programming from Indio. Channel 17 is a relay of LATV channel 57 originating out of Ventura. Channel 21 is religious airing progrmaming from Three Angels Broadcasting. Channel 27, as I was passing through the Banning pass, had a relay of KESQ channel 42 relayed into the Yucca Valley area. Channel 28 must be a new station that went up recently. It's KVES-LP, airing KVER-LP's programming into the western part of the Coachella valley. Channel 31 had a trace of America One's KVMD out of 29 Palms. Channel 33 is a new station in Palm Springs airing programming from KDFX channel 40, a Fox station. Channel 36 is a longtime NBC station, KMIR, as is KESQ channel 42, an ABC affilliate that once had the call letters KPLM. Channel 45 is a PAX station, KDPX-LP, from Cathedral City that's relatively new. Channel 50 is a two-year-old UPN affilliate, KPSE. Channel 55 pipes in some PBS programming from KOCE 50 out of Huntington Beach. Channel 58 is KPSP-LP, now airing America One programming. It was a shopping channel a few years earlier. Channel 66 is K66BM, a longtime TBN translator in the area. A Confusing TV GuideLooking through the Coachella valley TV Guide, numerous errors in the TV logos are present. I'm not sure why the magazine decided to list the cable channels of most of the broadcast stations it lists instead of the actual broadcast channels they appear on.For instance, to see programming on channel 42, you have to see the channel 3 logo that looks like this: (*3*). 42 is on cable 3. Get it? If you don't have cable, and there is no channel 3 in Palm Springs, you'd be lost and think that this is the wrong TV Guide for the area. KCET channel 28 programs are listed under the eight logo ( 8 ). There is no channel 8 in the area, or from Los Angeles either. Also, since there is now a low-power 28 in Palm Springs, chances of getting the Los Angeles channel 28 are now slim and none without cable. KDFX 33/40 (FOX) is under the (*11*) logo, and KPSE 50 (UPN) is under the (*13*) logo. Now this gets a bit confusing since, for one thing, there are two channel 11 and 13's that can reach the Coachella valley area with a good antenna: KTTV 11 and KCOP 13 out of Los Angeles, airing programs from Fox and UPN, and KYMA 11 and KSWT 13 out of Yuma, airing programs from NBC and CBS. Even more confusing is the fact that the two channel 11's and 13's from Los Angeles and Palm Springs have matching network affilliations; Fox on 11, and UPN on 13! Looking through the TV Guide listings when programming on Fox and UPN are airing, we see both logos for the same channel logo listing the program like this:
(*11*) ( 11 ) Family Guy Gets more confusing since TV Guide decided to use the same channel logo in this edition for two pairs of stations. You may see listings for programming on either 11 or 13 and select another channel 11 or 13 instead, a disaster if you're taping the programs on your VCR unattended. Now here's where it gets weird. There is a low power channel 6 in the Coachella valley area. Guess what TV Guide did? They list programming for channel 36 under the (*6*) logo! You see listings for this six, and use cable, it's okay, but if you use the antenna, and don't know that the 6 logo is for the cable, you get a scratchy channel 6 out of Indio playing some Spanish programming instead of programs from NBC! Even weirder is the fact that there is also a low power channel 12 in the area, and you see a logo for (*12*) in the TV Guide. Once again, it's for the cable chanel 12, not the low power 12. Furthermore, the (*12*) is the over-the-air channel 4 out of Indio. TV Guide also lists programming for KNBC 4 out of Los Angeles, but once again, if you tune in broadcast channel 4 instead of cable 4, you get the Indio channel 4 playing Univision programming. So to summarize, to see programs for channels 42, 33/40, 50, 28, 36, and 4, you have to see the logos 3, 11, 13, 8, 6, and 12 respectively! Over the air 4 is not Los Angeles 4, but cable 12, which is not the same as over-the-air 12, but a low power 12. Channel 6 is not over-the-air 6 but over-the-air 36. Got this straight? Just barely. Also listed is KUNA channel 15, but it's listed with the (*41*) logo! In an earlier TV Guide edition, the KUNA appearred on cable 41, but now it's on 15 and 21 on two systems. Now that's a weird channel numbering system! Are we sure that the author of that infamous 2000 Florida ballot isn't covering this edition of TV Guide? This edition of TV Guide also carries listings for the WB Network under the (WB) logo. It uses KCWB for its local station identification and is carried on two cable systems listed in the area. Did I mention that Palm Springs still doesn't have a CBS station in the area? You have to tune in a distant channel 2 out of Los Angeles or 13 out of Yuma to get it if you don't have cable. The area could also use a PBS station of its own; there's a big enough base to support one now. Well, that's the TV landscape for the Coachella Valley area. Hope this article straightens out some of the confusion in TV land in the desert valley. 98.9 Ghost on 98.5 Disappearrs Sunday (Feb 10, 2002)Earlier, I told you that there was, on 98.5 last week, a repeat of its MORE-FM signal on that frequency. On Sunday, the signal on 98.5 was vacant again. It was likely a transmitter malfunction that was probably fixed sometime after Saturday afternoon when I last monitored the 98.5 frequency.To shed some light on this, Robert Gonsett via e-mail, was alerted and tried to listen to the 98.5 MORE-FM signal, but being located in Fallbrook where he was monitoring the signals, received nothing from the TJ station. The 98.5 signal was either too weak to reach Fallbrook or the transmitter was fixed that Saturday afternoon at the time he was monitoring the frequency. From: Robert Gonsett
David,
Our monitoring station in Fallbrook did
not pick up anything unusual on 98.5 MHz
today. We heard an easy listening station,
and the audio was completely different
from the audio on the 98.9 MHz station in
Tijuana. This was true at all beam headings.
If there was a spur from 98.9 on 98.5, it
was at least 35 dBc down and covered by
the 98.5 station.
SPURS:
When you hear contamination on 98.5,
is it ONLY the audio of 98.9? If so,
most likely the 98.9 transmitter is
spurring (broadcasting on multiple
frequencies). In that case, there would
be a symmetrical spur 400 kHz on the high
side (98.9 + 0.4 = 99.3), but of course
that spur would be inaudible because it
would be covered by the 99.3 station in
Tijuana.
Transmitter spurs are rare, by the way.
We catch perhaps one episode/year at our
monitoring plant. We also looked around
the band for any sign that the 98.9
transmitter was spurring on some other
frequency, and came up empty handed.
IM PRODUCTS:
If, on the other hand, on 98.5 you hear
audio from BOTH 98.9 and 99.3, you are
hearing an intermodulation ("IM") product.
Listen carefully. In this case the 98.9
audio will be twice as loud as normal,
masking the 99.3 audio and making it
difficult to hear.
If you are hearing an IM product, we
then need to determine whether it is
being generated at the Tijuana transmitter
plant, or in your receiver (from being
overloaded by strong incoming signals),
or both. But let's leave that project
for another day. How close are you to
Tijuana, by the way, what kind of antenna
are you using, does it have a preamp and
do you have an antenna rotator?
Bob
So there you have it, a lot of technical information
about what happens when some transmitters go bad (like in a Fox special.)
The 98.9 on 98.5 was more like a spur by his definition.
I also witnessed some transmitters going bad on 94.1 in 1998, spurring into 94.5 and 93.7 (a frequency
I was trying to listen to KCLB out of Palm Springs on), 105.3 in 1990, spurring into 104.9 and 105.7,
and 103.7 spilling over from 103.1 to 104.3 in 1999.
Heard on 92.1"If you're driving a van, chances are, you're not listening to [the 92.1 announcer].""If you're wearing low rise trousers, chances are, you're not reading the news." - David Tanny Gary Lycan Radio News (Feb 10, 2002)Gary Lycan - Orange County RegisterDrama series finds home on KPCC... Local radio drama got a big boost this past week when KPCC/89.3 FM announced it will air the L.A. Theatre Works series "The Play's the Thing." The program had a long run on KCRW/89.9 FM until it was dropped last year. It could recently be heard on XM Satellite Radio's Broadway Channel. KPCC will air it 8-10 p.m. Saturdays starting March 2. It will benefit from a healthy lead-in show - Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion." Touched By a New Angel...Broadcaster, That Is... Rory Markas and Terry Smith make up the new broadcast team for the Anaheim Angels. \ Smith is from Columbus, Ohio. Markas is well-known locally as a sports broadcaster who formerly covered the Clippers and currently does USC Trojans basketball. Sinbad Sails Onto Hot 92.3 Today... Comedian/actor Sinbad starts at 6 a.m. Monday on KHHT/92.3 FM. Theo moves to middays. Don Barrett's laradio.com Radio stuff: KTWV host Dave Koz shared his personal thought for the morning. "If love seems like a faucet that turns on and off, it could mean that you are involved with a drip." . Former KOST/KBIG personality Lance Ballance is the new afternoon guy at KSFI ("FM 100") in Salt Lake City. News Wires (Feb 8, 2002)Sets 102.1 Loyal Listener Update__________________________________________________________________ >*BLUES BY THE BAY AT SEAPORT VILLAGE, FREE FOR THE FAMILY ==================================================================Blues By the Bay is back, it's free, and it's each Saturday in February at Seaport Village. Join us from 4-6pm for Len Rainey and The Midnight Players Saturday afternoon February 9th. For More Information... Click the link below for the SETS 102 Concerts Page. http://www.sets102.com/ConcertsPage.htm ________________________________________ >*SECTION 102 - OUR ONLINE TICKET SECTION- ========================================FREE Tickets for Dave Edmunds, The Beat Farmers, The Blasters, Bruce Cockburn, Chris Stills, Charlie Musselwhite and more... And be sure to check out SECTION 102 Monday!!! Just click this link http://www.sets102.com/section_102.htm ___________________________ >*SAVE LIVES... GIVE BLOOD! ===========================Monday, February 11th... Jodina is at Hyundai of Escondido. It's another chance to give blood and help save lives. Click here for info http://www.sets102.com/blooddrive.htm __________ >*CONCERTS ==========John Mayer is coming to Canes Tuesday, April 2nd. Tickets go on-sale, Friday, February 8th. For more information and to see who's coming to San Diego this week. |