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Radio Wires 11-30-02David Tanny: The King of San Diego"How Many Ways Has Clear Channnel Tou.....bzzzzzzt!......." Friday's thunderstorm in the evening shut down the Clear Channel building's electricity for 45 minutes from 5:45pm when a bolt (not a Charger) landed somewhere close enough to the CC building that the power circuit from nearby tripped and shut off power to at least the CC building. The transmitters at AM 600, 690, 1360, 1130, 90.3, 93.3, 94.1, 95.7, 99.3, 101.5, and 105.3, were all on the air, but with CC not feeding their signals to their transmitters, the stations broadcast dead air all that time. Only 91X and Magic 92.5 were still on the air, but I guess that 92.5's broadcast studio is in National City and who knows where 91X was (the old building near the CHP?) Some anti-CC e-mailers reasoned that the thunderstrikes near the CCSD building is a sign from God warning Clear Channel with this message: "Change thy evil ways, or perish!" Looks like the big one upstairs is angry over all the tricks CC has played on their Outland radio listeners in the past four years. Radio Wires 11-30-02Chris Carmichael - San Diego Radio NetIt's no-go KO-GO FM in Temecula. The FM station serving the growing Riverside area had been relaying KOGO AM in San Diego. That all changed over the holiday stretch as KMYI-FM, My 94.1 is heard on the 94.5 spot. Riverside resident Butch Shomph confirms: "I was tooling around the Temecula Valley most of the day. Tuned into 94.5 FM and heard at near the top of the hour "This is My 941 on KOGO Temecula" and the ads were mostly local as well, so it doesn't seem to be a fluke or mistake. Which leads me to ask.......why???? 94.1 comes in LOUD AND CLEAR in Temecula, Lake Elsinore and the surrounding areas. In fact, it's one of the few FM stations I get clearly in the car travling down Pala Road from Fallbrook to Temecula when I want to avoid the I-15 crunch. It just seems redundant. Keep up the good work." Thanks Butch ... Stay Tuned ....
Radio Wires 11-29-02Star 100.7What we should be thankful for this Thanksgiving. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness. you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation. you are ahead of 500 million people in the world. If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death. you are more blessed than three billion people in the world. If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead, and a place to sleep. you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, money in your wallet, and spare change in a dish somewhere. you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. If your parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare. even in the United States. If you can read a billboard on the way to work, or newspaper, or a book. you are more blessed than over 2 billion people in the world that cannot read at all. If you can hold your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful. you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not. TOP 26 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU CAN CALL YOURSELF A SAN DIEGAN:
1.) Go to Kobe's Swap Meet
2.) Visit the Hotel Del at Christmas
3.) Go to the ORIGINAL Rubio's on Mission Bay
Drive
4.) Go see a concert at Humphrey's
5.) Go under the Coronado bridge in a boat
6.) Be in TJ after midnight
7.) Buy a fake designer watch in TJ
8.) Go to the Over the Line Tournament
9.) Get apple pie IN Julian
10.) Eat at a Roberto's AFTER 2am
11.) Eat at the Corvette Diner
12.) Take a ride through Hillcrest
13.) Ride the Big Dipper
14.) Go through the Self-Realization Temple in
Encinitas
15.) Go to the Del Mar Fair
16.) Go to the Holiday Festival of Lights
17.) See the Miramar Air Show
18.) Go find the Munchkin houses on Mt. Soledad
19.) Go reflect on top of Mt. Soledad while
depressed
20.) Get a pumpkin at Bate's Nut Farm
21.) Watch waves crash over the top of the OB Pier
22.) Go to "The Black" in OB
23.) See a grunion run (look but don't touch)
24.) At least ONCE date or dance with someone in the
military
25.) Be on top of the parking garage near the airport
and watch the planes fly over
26.) Go to TJ and buy Chiclets
Radio Wires 11-28-02The San Diego Reader Blurt"It is an interesting experiment," said Clear Channel programming vice president Jim Richards about the new FM 94/9's unusual promo announcements. Richards said, "We'll have to see if it works." The announcements have included: "How many ways does Clear Channel touch you today? Not through this station. Hands off." "When the Flash [XHRM 92.5 FM] got popular, Clear Channel bought them and shut them down. Better listen to FM 94/9 while you can. We could be next." And there are more. "That attack is straight out of the Clear Channel playbook," said Jim Kerr, an editor at trade magazine Radio & Records. (The FBI contacted Clear Channel in September over a series of fake e-mails that Jefferson Pilot's KSON received, but no charges were ever filed.) "Generally speaking, when stations go on the offensive they [bash] specific call letters. I have never heard anybody go after the corporate owner before. "If 91X is seen as a corporate sellout by the listeners in San Diego, then [the campaign] could be extremely effective. If listeners in San Diego don't care about who owns what, then they are just wasting their breath. It's too soon to tell yet." FM 94/9 program director Garett Michaels (pictured at left with Mike Halloran and DJ Jeff Stewart) said he has seen the audience research surveys conducted by his parent company, Jefferson Pilot. "I've never seen a situation where the listeners were as bitter about a broadcast company as they are in San Diego against Clear Channel." Radio Wires 11-27-02Chris Carmichael - San Diego Radio NetPledge drive for his website continues...plus... Star 100.7 is featured in the new San Diego Monopoly board game! The all-new San Diego Monopoly game showcases "America's Finest City" and comes with custom pewter tokens including a surfer and beach cruiser. The game is available from the Star FM web site at histar.com. (San Diego's #1 morning radio show team, Jeff and Jer, are pictured on the box). 24/7. 365. Live and local .... What to do, what to do: KyXy runs promos that they are live and local all the time. From broadcast professional: "I, too, wondered about the "Live and Local - 24/7" liners on KYXY. Terrific radio station that always turns in consistent numbers in the ratings book and the P & L reports. It's the kind of station that we all want to own! But, when I heard the "L & L - 24/7" liner and called in to speak with Celine Dion and Phil Collins, they didn't answer the phone. Celine and Phil must have been busy in the jock lounge preparing for their next "live" performance. I think their music sounds much better than all those other guys that are playing that lousy "recorded" stuff. Can't wait to speak with George Harrison or Elvis!" Mike Halloran, afternoon mavrick at FM94.9, crafts his music in the afternoon at the new alternative rocker. He's pictured here with members of Sigur Ros. Mid-dayer Stew tells SDR: "Yeah, that J/P building hasn't rocked so hard in it's life. You get Kenny G coming from the KiFm studio, and we drown them out with Soundgarden. Been getting lots of calls from people who "get it" & really enjoy it. It's all good." Thanks Stew ... KyXy's online auction starts Dec. 4 ... that's next Wednesday. Charlie Quinn tells SDR that this will be the best yet ... more details early next week. Mild-mannered, Jim McInnes returns to the airwaves of San Diego ... Jim writes: "On December 5, I will start my new gig as a news reader on the KPBS Reading Service. This service is for the visually impaired and can be received only with a special decoder. I won't be interviewing anyone, nor will I be doing any bits or spinning any tunes, but I will be communicating with people in a much more meaningful way...like being their 5th sense." Jim adds that for more information, visit RadioReadingService.com. Plus Jim reminds the broadcast communicty: "I'm still available for voice-over and on-air stuff. I have some professional broadcasting experience." Thanks Jim!
CC News (November 27, 2002)About 10% of the staff at Clear Channel/San Diego was laid off on November 19, 2002 - this according to an inside source.Call Sign Change: KBNT-LP, San Diego, to KBNT-CA. It broadcasts on channel 17. Radio Wires 11-27-02David Tanny...the King of San DiegoPremium Radio 92.1 Changes Website Name...the old name was independent.fm. The new name is http://www.921radio.com. Please make a note of it. Also, their messageboard is now found at http://boards.921radio.com. The real Best CD Made, Ever...is The Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main Street" LP, but for the best comedy compilations ever made, look at the Dr. Demento album page RIGHT HERE! Pick up Dr. Demento's Greatest Christmas Holiday CD and Holidays in Dementia featuring an assortment of funny song classics in time for the holidays. Treat yourself! And for a wide assortment of Christmas novelty song classics, well over 1,000 have been made since Grandma Got Run Over was made (take that, Buck Howdy!), check out my own Holiday album page RIGHT HERE! Forget Clear Channel's boring sleepy holiday music format. Buy 100 of these off my website and put them on your own CD changer, and program your own crazy holiday station at home! OR listen to DFSXmas at the link found at http://www.dfsxradio.com/
The San Diego Reader Blurt Top Ten (November 18-24, 2002)The DTV Ratings System has been replaced by the Top Ten TV rankings.1. The Simpsons (8pm) (FOX) 2. Malcolm in the Middle (9pm) (FOX) 3. Friends (NBC) 4. South Park (COM) 5. Bernie Mac (FOX) 6. Late Show with David Letterman (average for the week) (CBS) 7. Futurama (r) (FOX) 8. Malcolm in the Middle (9:30pm) (FOX) 9. King of the Hill (7:30pm) (FOX) 10. Jay Leno (average for the week) (NBC) The Wires (Nov 2002) |