Radio Wires (September 7, 2002)

KPOP Lineup:

Hare in the morning, 6-9
Kevin Taylor, mid-morning, 9-11
Jerry G. Bishop, 11-2
Ken Cynthia 2-6.

Also...

LARadio.com the web 'zine dedicated to Los Angeles radio, announced last night to a subscriber list, that it will cease publication on Dec. 31. Stay Tuned. More info to be updated and the reason why ... Monday. (but let's let the cat out of the bag as someone e-mailed me to say that it was just a joke. "It was a joke in response to the incessant spamming from Nigeria," says Don Barret.)

Radio Wires (September 7, 2002)

Also at his column: The Chargers open the season at Cincinnati with Don Criqui and Solomon Wilcots on the call at 10 a.m. on CBS.

Local Football TV Report News:

''Chargers Power Report'' debuts Monday at 9 p.m. on Channel 51. The 60-minute show goes live from Seau's The Restaurant and is hosted by Paul Rudy and Billy Ray Smith with coach Marty Schottenheimer on hand each week. It will air opposite Channel 10's Monday Night Live. Bad news for football news enthusiasists. Also bad for fans of Caroline Rhea's entertaining talk show as KUseLessI bumps it in favor of Chargers Power Report. Nobody wins in this case.

``Chargers Game Plan'' airs from 7-7:30 p.m. Saturday on Channel 8 during the season. Kyle Kraska hosts along with ex-Vikings coach Dennis Green. Bad news: it bumps the endless reruns of Entertainment Tonight's "What Happened To" series that seems to go on forever. Put Chargers Power Report opposite ET wherever its on!

Clippers come home (so why can't they get the Lakers?) San Diego's WB 5/69 announced it will carry 19 L.A. Clippers games this season, picking up the feed from L.A.'s WB (KTLA 5, which Maffei omits from his column). The majority of the games, which start Nov. 10, will air on Saturdays and Sundays (hopefully, won't bump off Charmed on Sunday nights or the witches (one of which is played by the sexy Alyssa Milano) will cast a losing streak spell on the Clippers. Better think of another spell. The Clippers will dwell in the cellar anyway. Anyone care for the Clippers? I'm still fuming 20 years after Cox cable dropped KHJ 9 depriving us Lakers fans down here in the Outland of some of the best Laker playing history of our time.

More Bits: Dave Palet has been named director of operations and programming at ESPN Radio XEMMM (800). Palet, who teamed with Jeff Dotseth at KFMB (760) to form one of the more popular radio teams in town, said the station hopes to add Metro Traffic, local sports updates and a local show in the near future. Fox TV anchor Katy Temple will do some features.
XEMMM has the San Diego rights to USC football and basketball and down the road may bid for other play-by-play entities.
John Kentera begins his 12th season of the "High School Football Scoreboard Show'' at 11 tonight on XTRA (690).

Jay Posner - TV/Radio Sports - The San Diego Union
Are You Ready For Some New Broadcasters? Posner lines them up in time for the first Sunday NFL games (formerly the start of the NFL season). Side note: Why doesn't ABC put the ESPN NFL games on its main ABC TV network instead of cable? Clearly more people would rather watch the worst football matchup over any of the junk outside of Drew Carey ABC is airing in prime time anyway.

More Bits:

Anchor shuffle: Kevin Garcia, who left XETV Channel 6 nearly two years ago for what turned out to be a short run with Fox Sports Net, is coming back to town, but at a new station. He'll replace John Hartung, who is leaving KSWB Channel 5/69 after tonight for KABC in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, the man who replaced Garcia at XETV in late 2000, Tom Helmer, is leaving the business after Sept. 29. He will be replaced by Kirby Maus, a news anchor who has done sports previously in other markets and also as a fill-in at XETV.
UCLA football and basketball games will air on KPOP-AM (1360).

And finally... On a more serious note, ESPN will devote three hours of programming Tuesday evening to remembering the events of [September 11, stop calling the date 9/11! It's not a spinoff of 7/11! Seriously!], including an "Outside the Lines" special at 5 and an NFL Films documentary, "The Bravest Team: The Rebuilding of the FDNY Football Club" at 6. The latter, especially, should not be missed.

KVCR working to get back on air (September 7, 2002)

More at http://www.pe.com/entertainment/stories/PE_ENT_ntvkvcr.586d6.html

Continued transmitter problems may keep KVCR-TV (Channel 24) off the air for as much as another week, the station's program director said Friday.

The downtime at the Inland area's PBS carrier has affected college telecourses, regular PBS programming and may mean no broadcast of a special day of commemoration on Wednesday of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The station based at San Bernardino Valley College began having problems last weekend and was off the air on Sunday night, said program director Don Leiffer.

Leiffer said the time off the air has hurt programming and planning for KVCR-TV.

"We certainly would love to be back on the air by Sept. 11, because there is some very special PBS programming that day," Leiffer said.

For regular nighttime programs, Leiffer said he would not be able to reschedule all of them. "I am taking individual programs, where possible, and placing them into slots in October and November."

Missed taped broadcasts of this summer's Redlands Bowl performances that began Aug. 30 will be rescheduled, he said.

He said there would be no way to catch up on the telecourses that were missed, but all courses are available on video at both San Bernardino Valley College and Crafton Hills College. For more information, call Distance Education at (909) 888-6511, and touch 4.

Meanwhile, Leiffer said he has been fielding "calls, e-mails, faculty on campus stopping by -- we have been inundated with viewer interest and concern."

Inland radio contest finds talented voices (September 7, 2002)

More at http://www.pe.com/localnews/southwest/stories/PE_NEWS_nidol31.a1866.html

SINGERS: The Temecula station broadcasts the competitors and lets the audience pick winners.

TEMECULA - They sang songs about love, dreams and missed chances.

The contest that began with 30 acts last week was down to three on Friday. The four contestants in Temecula KATY 101.3-FM's local version of the Fox-TV program "American Idol" waited as callers voted for the song rendition they liked best.

The votes were close, KATY morning host Bob Madden said, but after the 100-call tally, he said goodbye to 16-year-old twins Sarah and Jaclyn Sisco, who sang "Born to Fly." Amanda Schraudt, 17, and Shaun Samaro, 20, will compete in Tuesday's final at about 7 a.m.

The winner will get tickets and a limousine ride to Universal Studios theme park and a free recording session at the Park Hill Music Co. in Hemet, Madden said.

Radio Wires (September 7, 2002)

laradio.com Update (September 7, 2002)

Radio Wires (September 7, 2002)

Stern is gloating over the recent supposed dismissal of Opie & Anthony's syndicated show, whose home base was Viacom-owned Infinity,s WNEW-FM/New York.

When Opie & Anthony first joined WNEW,s afternoon drive slot, they took severe jabs at Stern, who works for the same company, but at a different New York radio station, WXRK.

The rivalry ultimately turned nasty, and Opie & Anthony were purportedly ordered by Infinity head Mel Karmazin not to speak ill of Howard.

"They deservedly got fired because - even I know, as whacked out as I am - that you can't encourage people to do something illegal," said Stern. "The reason I've been successful is I kind of know the difference,"

Stern also invited Opie & Anthony to stop by his show in the near future. Hmmmm.

Direct Howard Stern morning rival, Don Imus of WFAN, also coincidentally owned by Infinity, has come out in favor of Opie & Anthony, and accusing his company of overreacting.

rronline
Net Listeners Want Streams Back; Don't Mind Hearing Ads
Those are among the findings of Arbitron-Edison Media Research's "Internet 9" study, released today. In the phone survey of 2,511 spring 2002 Arbitron diarykeepers, two-thirds of respondents who use streaming media at least monthly are upset about losing a webcast that has gone offline during the controversy over digital rights and royalties, and the same number would like Congress to intervene to help webcasters stay online. Streaming users overall find ads a reasonable tradeoff for getting online programming for free; in fact, they find such ads far less objectionable than banners. Still, 22% of respondents said they'd be willing to pay a small fee to listen or view an online channel or station, up from 14% just six months before. Of those willing to pay, 45% prefer a flat subscription fee, versus 36% who would prefer paying on a per listen/view basis. More good news for streamed audio providers is the finding that Internet radio listening is on the rise, although slowly. In the latest study 36% of Internet users report listening to radio station webcasts, up from 34% a year ago and 33% in 2000.

Radio Outscores Internet As 'Most Essential' Medium
Some 26% of respondents 12+ to the Arbitron-Edison Media study say radio is the most essential medium in their everyday lives, while 20% rated the Internet as most vital. Both were beat by TV, which received 39% of the vote. But TV is suffering the most from the growth of the Internet, as 37% of respondents say they're watching less TV because of the Internet. Some 20% of respondents say they're listening to the radio less in favor of surfing the Web, and 19% say they're listening to CDs less because of time spent on the 'Net. However, when it comes to actual time spent with a medium, radio, TV and the Internet are neck and neck among consumers with broadband at home: Those surveyed spend an average 2 hours 35 minutes watching the tube every day, 2:19 listening to the radio and 2 hours online.

Most Americans Still Get New Music From Buying CDs
With illegal downloading so much in the news, the Arbitron-Edison survey also asked how people most often access new music. One in four said it's through CDs they buy in a store (the survey also found, as R&R reported last month, that the most active streamers buy the most CDs). Just 8% say they get most new music by downloading MP3s; the same number admit they copy other people's CDs. Nearly three-quarters of those surveyed - 72% - say they "almost never" download or share an MP3 file. Home 'Net access is steady from last year, at 70% of Americans, but those people are spending more time online - 58 minutes a day, up from 41 minutes two years ago. Only half of those with home 'Net access have ever tried streaming audio or video, but, as R&R reported last month, home broadband access is booming, up to 28% of Americans from 13% 18 months ago - an excellent sign for the future of streaming media.

New Billboard Dance Radio Show To Debut (September 6, 2002)

Hot Dance Countdown Queues Up For Radio

National radio syndicator Excelsior Radio Networks (XRN) and Entertainment Management Group Worldwide, Inc. (EMGW), a licensee of Billboard Music Group, are teaming up to launch Billboard's Hot Dance Countdown. The new weekly syndicated program is set to debut the weekend of Sept. 28-29.

Available in four- and two-hour versions for participating radio stations to purchase for airing in their markets, Billboard's Hot Dance Countdown will count down the top 40 songs or top 20 songs, respectively, as reported on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The show will be hosted by Washington, D.C., radio personality Jenni Chase and produced and mixed by Gene Huie, aka DJ GKLoop. Each program will feature an interview with a top artist who has a hit song on the chart that week.

"We are very excited to be in business with Billboard and EMGW on this brand-new countdown show for the Hot Dance format," says Larry Kahn, VP/GM for XRN. "Billboard's Hot Dance Countdown fills a void in this extremely popular and rapidly growing format. We are excited to be bringing it to the marketplace of radio stations and advertisers."

XRN produces and syndicates music programming and prep services in a variety of formats to more than 2,000 radio stations nationwide. EMGW is a premier entertainment representation and marketing firm.

Radio Bytes (September , 2002)

Popular Unreleased Nirvana song on Internet Hits Airwaves

(Seattle Times) A long-anticipated Nirvana song that's been the subject of much speculation and litigation finally surfaced on the nation's airwaves this week, more than eight years after singer Kurt Cobain killed himself.

The song, "You Know You're Right," was closely guarded by Cobain's estate and became one of the most famous unreleased tracks in rock history. The band, which launched the early 1990s "grunge" movement, recorded it in late January 1994, less than three months before Cobain's death.

"It may not be the best song they ever did, but it's probably in the top 10," Cobain biographer Charles Cross said yesterday. "At the time, people were saying Kurt was over, and that's what's so significant about this song - it's the last great Nirvana song."

The circumstances of the song's release aren't clear. Several radio stations said it first surfaced on the Internet, which was where they obtained it.

The release - official or not - followed comments from Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, last week, indicating that lawsuits involving the song had been settled for "a lot of money" and that "You Know You're Right" would be released before the holidays.

Love and surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic have long fought over "You Know You're Right" as well as the rest of Nirvana's legacy. She sued them in May 2001 to block the release of a boxed set including the song, which she wanted released later. They countersued for breach of contract.

Neither Love's Seattle lawyer, O. Yale Lewis, nor Grohl and Novoselic's lawyers would confirm the case had been settled or discuss the song's release. A spokesman for Interscope Geffen A&M, Nirvana's label, did not return a phone message yesterday, and lawyers for Universal Music Group, which includes the label, declined to comment.

The case was still set to go to trial in King County Superior Court beginning Monday, though a bailiff for Judge Robert Alsdorf noted that a hearing scheduled about two weeks ago had been canceled without being rescheduled.

Cross cautioned that the version released on the Internet may not be the one planned for release by the record label. He said he heard a substantially better version while researching his Cobain biography, "Heavier than Heaven," which came out last year.

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Don Barrett - Los Angeles Radio People
GO>>>
As Clear Channel marches toward the ability to voice track at will, KIIS/102.7 FM's Rick Dees, one of the most important cogs in the Clear Channel personality machinery, spoke out the other morning on the problems with the trend toward voicetracking. "Do yourself a favor when traveling to other cities and listen for how many stations say the name of the artist after playing a song," he said. "If you like the song, chances are you'll never know who recorded it because it is another of those stupid tapes again. I don't know if is because a station has run out of money or is just not any good." Rick declared that at KIIS, the name of the song is announced and maybe something about the artist during his morning show. "We're part of the music or it'll just be a talk show. We play the hits or heads will roll in Cincinnati. This guy sits there like the wizard of Oz with all these buttons in front of him. He can punch up any radio station in America. If the station is not doing what he wants, heads roll. It's phenomenal the way they pull it off - that's the Clear Channel way - the only way," he said.

Wang-Net
GO>>>
Infinity is moving KCAL-TV Channel 9 into the same Sunset Blvd. building as KCBS-TV Channel 2 and KNX (1070 AM), pushing KCBS-FM (Arrow 93) out of its broom closet and into the Fairfax building that currently houses KROQ (106.7 FM) and KRTH (101.1 FM) -- and is (or was) the transmitter site for KHJ (930 AM), if my memory serves correctly. In turn, KRTH will move into the space vacated by Channel 9 at 5515 Melrose in Hollywood ... the same building that once was home to KHJ-AM, KHJ-TV Channel 9 (before it adopted the stupid KCAL calls) and KHJ-FM ... the former calls of, you guessed it, KRTH. KRTH General Manager Pat Duffy says, "It is fitting that we return to where is all began." I agree. The move will happen sometime in late October or early November.

Radio & Records (includes Arbitrons)
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Sinbad Exits KHHT/L.A. Mornings; Gets Syndicated Show... Despite a heavy outdoor campaign, Sinbad failed to build the Clear Channel Urban AC's morning numbers since joining "Hot 92 Jamz" in February and had made no secret about his unhappiness in waking up early to host the morning show. As a result, the comedian and entertainer exits the wakeup shift but remains with KHHT as host of a soon-to-be launched weekend program called Sinbad's Hot Ten Now and Then, which will be syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks and air initially on Hot 92 and a to-be-announced San Francisco station. "Given Sinbad's wide-range appeal and new opportunities," Clear Channel Radio/L.A. President Roy Laughlin says, "we felt it in the best interest of all involved to increase his on-air presence to Clear Channel stations throughout the country with a syndicated show."