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Radio Wires (October 26, 2002)John Maffei - North County Times TV/SportsNew one should have been up yesterday.
Jay Posner - TV/Radio Sports - The San Diego Union Radio Wires (October 26, 2002)Chris Carmichael - San Diego Radio NetMike Cook is one of six shows not to miss on the radio over the weekend. He's on Saturday and Sunday night shows involves answering trivia questions and competing with listeners on 760 KFMB's 50,000 watt AM signal. The audience grew a bit recently as the station re-added streaming audio for world-wide coverage. See the questions at his website if you wish to be spoiled. Andy Pei made closest guess to day! (100,000 hits on October 23rd.)
Bandwidth Problems at Tripod (October 24, 2002)L.A., CA10/24.2/02 - Bandwidth. I did get into my site today and found a lower-than-average number of hits on both of my hit counters. I have to assume tripod is just trying to force me into buying more bandwidth. See the 10/24.1/02 Flash. 10/24.1/02 - Bandwidth problem? Tripod is trying to tell me you're using too much bandwidth today, so you and I may not be able to get into this site. This is the first time I've seen this problem. Guess what - they want to sell me more bandwidth. May I suggest moving your website to an ISP that has unlimited bandwidth? You can try free.prohosting.com since as I write this, there's no bandwidth, plus FTP! Forget Geosh*tties and other free hosting sites since they're just using your hard work to promote themselves. I have hostonce.com, but as you have been documenting, the site (DFS News, part of davesfunstuff.com, is hosted there) goes down now and then, but let me know if you want any help in finding an ISP with unlimited bandwidth and you can drop Tripod and their annoying pop-up ads (not from you) forever!
Radio Wires (October 24, 2002)Chris Carmichael - San Diego Radio NetRadio trade papers confirm that Mojo Nixon returns to San Diego. He'll be in the afternoon drive time from 3 to 7 p.m. He was heard previously on 92.5 The Flash before moving to Cincinnati .... He is part of their morning show called the Dawn Patrol at 102.1 WEBN ... the home of former KGBer, Jay Gilbert ..... This is most-likely the day: 100,000 visitors sometime this afternoon. If it's true, a winner in the first SDR contest ... will be announced tomorrow. As it stands at 5:20 a.m.: 99,636 visitors to SDR .... (Radio Free San Diego T-Shirt Logo) Pirate Radio hits the San Diego airwaves. There are scattered reports that the clandestine station has been in operation ... from Radio Free San Diego: :Free Radio San Diego 96.9FM has completed its first two weeks of broadcasts, operating during the weekend evening hours. Operating from a clandestine location, FRSD has listeners reporting back a strong signal from El Cajon to Mission Beach, and from Chula Vista to La Jolla. Free Radio San Diego advocates will begin meeting with city and county officials over the next few weeks. Pirate969.org. Stay Tuned!
Radio Wires (October 24, 2002)rronlineKIIS/L.A. APD/MD Michael Steele Opts Not To Renew Contract... Instead, Steele has chosen to make a long-planned move to the label side of the music biz. "It's been my goal for many years to use radio as a stepping stone into the recording industry," he says. "KIIS was always going to be my last stop in radio." Steele says he'll be accepting a job with a major label after his KIIS contract expires on Dec. 31. KUBE/Seattle MD Julie Pilat will become KIIS's MD when Steele exits the heritage Clear Channel CHR/Pop station. Steele has been in radio close to 20 years and was "The New Guy" on KFMB-FM (Star 100.7)/San Diego before driving up the Golden State Freeway to KIIS's Burbank studios. Radio Wires (October 24, 2002)The San Diego Reader BlurtPremium 92.1 To Go Espanol? More on the Jim McInnes firing. Excerpt from Ken's column about a comment about Clear Channel: That's why they got the nickname 'Cheap Channel,' " said Tony Sisti, who worked as a DJ/program director of KSDS for 11 years. "They are replacing high-priced talent with minimum-wage college students to run the [control] boards while they run voice tracks of DJs from other markets."
North County Times - Randy Dotinga Quickies: It didn't take long for classic rock station KGB to reveal why it sacked longtime disc jockey Jim McInnes on Oct. 11. A week later, the station placed a familiar voice in McInnes' former time slot ---- that of rock singer Mojo Nixon, a homegrown San Diego star fresh from a four-year stint at a radio station in Cincinnati. A kind of gonzo version of "Weird Al" Yankovich (sic), Nixon is most famous for his spoof song "Elvis Is Everywhere." Other tunes include "Don Henley Must Die," "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two Headed Love Child," and an infamous tribute to MTV VJ Martha Quinn. (That song's title is so risque it would give my editor a conniption.) Nixon never regained the big-time fame that he garnered in the 1980s, but he's still got a core of dedicated fans. Nixon, a 40something family man whose real name is Neill Kirby McMillan Jr., will have some work to do to smooth over the hurt feelings of McInnes fans, who have been bombarding a local online bulletin board with tributes to him. ...
Radio Wires (October 22, 2002)Kurt HansonFollowing the SWAA's failure in the Senate and the looming due date for potentially crushing retroactive webcast royalties, SoundExchange announced a temporary payment plan that benefits smaller webcasters. Under the temporary plan, webcasters who were eligible for relief under the SWAA now owe only the $500 minimum for royalties for each year they've webcast dating back to 1998. Also, Senator Jesse Helms, who reportedly placed the hold on the SWAA in the Senate last Thursday, is said to be working on a legislative solution that will provide relief to a wider range of webcasters than accounted for under the SWAA. -- The U.S. Copyright Office has denied Live365's motion to stay the Librarian's determination for webcasting royalty rates. Like the broadcasters, Live365 will continue its fight in the courts... -- New developments in digital radio in the UK will allow listeners to schedule recordings of programming in a "TiVo-like" fashion. We hope to be able to publish a copy of the letter to the reocrd industry Sen. Helms is reportedly crafting. Feel free to check back later in the afternoon. Thanks.
San Diego Radio Gets Its Mojo (October 22, 2002)rronlineRecording artist Mojo Nixon joined KGB-FM on Friday for afternoons. Nixon was most recently morning co-host at WEBN/Cincinnati. KPRI's Triple Lip Licks (October 21, 2002)Beginning Monday, we'll start the music that gets you a triple lick of the Rolling Stones... The Stones at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, The Stones at Pac Bell Park in San Francisco, and the Stones at the San Diego Sports Arena...Beginning in the 7 o'clock hour with Madison & Tony, we'll be playing Stones Tracks from the New Album, 40 Licks... Each time you hear one, listen for your Show Host (Madison and Tony, Meg, Robert, Jodina, Mike Dale) to give you a special Rolling Stones e-mail address... You can enter as many times as there are e-mail addresses but only one time per address. Three Stones Shows, three cities, three different types of venues... and memories you'll never forget... This is only for KPRI Registered Frequent listeners like you. KTLA Cebrates 60 Years (October 22, 2002)KTLA channel 5 out of Los Angles first signed on in September 1942 with the call letters W6XYZ, an experimental TV station. It broadcasted from the Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. Klaus Landsberg owned the station at the age of 22 when it signed on. In October of 1942, W6XYZ channel 5 made history as it broadcasted the first telecast inside a motion picture studio (Paramount of course) "This Gun for Hire." The call letters were changed a month or two later to KTLA and broadcasted the first telecasts of sports such as wrestling and boxing. For more, check out this website: http://ktla.trb.com/about/station/ktla-about-history1.htmlstory
Palm Springs Finally Gets a CBS Station (October 22, 2002)KPSP-TV, Palm Springs, Signs On As The First Local Cbs Affiliate In The History Of Its Market. http://www.industryclick.com/microsites/index.asp?srid=11266&pageid=5497&siteid=15&magazineid=158&srtype=1#dstPirate 96.9 (October 22, 2002)"Free Radio San Diego 96.9FM has completed its first two weeks of broadcasts, operating during the weekend evening hours. Operating from a clandestine location, FRSD has listeners reporting back a strong signal from El Cajon to Mission Beach, and from Chula Vista to La Jolla. Free Radio San Diego advocates will begin meeting with city and county officials over the next few weeks." http://www.pirate969.org |