Los Angeles Radio Wires 12-14-02

12/13.10/02 - "Over 100 Low Power FMs [LPFM] are now on the air. John Broomall of the Christian Community Broadcasters keeps close tabs on LPFMs -- and he tells Inside Radio it's been 20 months since the first CP was issued in April 2001. Broomall believes there are now 106 operating LPFMs." From www.insideradio.com/. How many in L.A.? Zero!

12/13.2/02 - "Super Station Update. Sports talk radio stations XTRA and KXTA will become one on Jan. 6 and be known as "XTRA Sports 690 and 1150." The merger was to have happened Monday but was delayed because of vacations." More at http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-tvcolumn13dec13.story.

Don Barrett - Los Angeles Radio People
Headlines (sorry, no stories): SURF Staff Pickets KLAC Launch Party. "We're prepared for a battle" - Saul Levine. SURF demonstrations at Museum of TV & Radio KLAC launch event stir up competitive feelings. Michael Jackson stays at KLAC. Infinity's Pat Duffy makes prediction about success of Clear Channel's KLAC. English-language Galaxy soccer broadcasts at KMPC 1540 AM. Bob Rivers' White Trash Christmas #1 Comedy CD on Amazon. Art Bell shuts down his Web site for good...or until discovered in another galaxy. KFI weekender April Winchell replaced by The Best of Phil Hendrie. KCAL for sale.

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KIIS/Los Angeles Vet Bruce Vidal Dies Vidal, who spent 14 years at KIIS-FM, died early this morning, apparently of a heart attack; he had been suffering recently from diabetes-related health problems. Colleagues estimate that he was approximately 55 years old at the time of his death. Vidal, who came to KIIS from KIOI/San Francisco, began his career in Minnesota and later worked in St. Louis and Riverside. At various points during his tenure at KIIS, Vidal hosted all the station's airshifts except for mornings, but filled in on occasion for longtime morning personality Rick Dees. He received national press attention in the mid-'80s for his on-air rivalry with then-wife Laurie Allen, who was on the air at crosstown competitor KMGG at the same time Vidal was on KIIS.

San Diego Radio Wires 12-14-02

Dave Palet of ESPN 800 tells SDR that the sports station will broadcast all the BCS games. "You can tune in to 800 for all the college auction," Dave said. He indicated that a better signal is in the works and is being actively sought.

as of 12/13 KyXy Auction: Money Raised to Date: $120,259 with over 2,592 auctioned items! . Visit the KyXy.com web site and see what you could be getting and helping for Make A Wish. 100-percent of the money raised goes to the charity; and in turn you could get some snazzy gifts for the tree ... or for yourself! The auction is closing today and this is your last chance to pick gifts from a full-functional Spiderman to tickets to the Padres! Visit early and often as there could be further surprises today ....

hEAR WAX: What San Diego radio station's team will get their third-in-a-row San Deigo Reader Best of award for Christmas? Also: will there be Angels in the San Diego outfield next season??

World-famous Steve Vaus checks in with SDR. He's fresh from the big Cox Carol's By Candlelight concert that was held last week in Escondido [and Cox Channel 4 will be broadasting soon!]. Steve writes: "Wanna alert you to the head of steam being built up by Buck Howdy - he's currently at #12 on the Billboard Internet Sales Chart (ahead of Faith Hills new CD!). View the chart at Billboard internet section on their web site. Steve also sends, "His Christmas song COW PIES FOR CHRISTMAS has him doing phoners everywhere from Baltimore to the BBC. It's getting play on news stations, rock and roll stations ..." Thanks Steve, tell Buck .... HOWDY!

San Diego Radio Wires 12-14-02

John Maffei - North County Times TV/Sports
The KXTA (1150) Web site says to look for the new merged superstation with XTRA (690) on Monday. However, employees at the stations haven't been told much, and some assume they'll be working through the end of the year. Trying to get a comment from management at either station is beyond impossible, this despite the fact they're in the communications business.

Ian Eagle and Solomon Wilcotts will call Sunday's 10 a.m. Chargers-Bills game for CBS.

ESPN will carry the 68th Heisman Trophy Presentation live at 4 p.m. Saturday. Chris Fowler is the host. Fox Sports Net has dispatched Petros Papdakis and Carolyn Hughes to New York for the Heisman presentation. They'll have reports at 10 tonight and Saturday on the Southern California Sports Report.

The first of 28 college football bowl games kicks off Tuesday when North Texas and Cincinnati meet in the New Orleans Bowl.

Jay Posner - TV/Radio Sports - The San Diego Union
Until last night it was right there, live and in color at www.foxsports1150.com: "Super Station launches Dec. 16"! Just below were the logos from XTRA Sports 690 AM and Fox Sports AM 1150, plus these words: "From Ventura to Baja - over 100,000 watts of power"! Already, I sense trouble. As we are reminded every weekday from 4 to 8 p.m., XTRA 690 booms from Baja to the Canadian Rockies. Now they're telling us that with an additional 23,000 watts, the "superstation" will reach only to Ventura?

The memo also said the new lineup will be Tony Bruno from 5 to 9 a.m., Jim Rome from 9 to noon (finally live again in San Diego), Steve Hartman and Bill Werndl (or "Wurndell," as it read on the memo) from noon to 3 p.m. and Lee Hamilton from 3 to 7 p.m. Everything else is "to be determined," although look for plenty of Fox Sports Radio programming in the late-night and overnight periods.

ABC's argument for a flexible "Monday Night Football" schedule received a boost this week with that horrible Dolphins-Bears game. Good matchups are due the next two Mondays (Patriots-Titans, Steelers-Bucs) before it gets ugly on the final night with a 49ers-Rams stinker. ESPN's "Sunday Night Football" also could argue the case. It has Cardinals-Rams this week and Bucs-Bears on the final Sunday. But any flexibility in the prime-time schedule almost certainly won't happen until 2006.

San Diego Radio Wires 12-13-02

National Radio Wires 12-12-02

Kurt Hanson
The latest on the CARP CRAP and more! Also, worldwide use of DSL soars, still trails cable modems in the U.S.

New Radio Star
XM/DELPHI INTRODUCE NEW PORTABLE SATELLITE RADIO ..Car..Home..and now, the Beach... (December 10, 2002 8:17am) The world's first satellite boom box has hit the street, and will be available at your local Circuit City next week. The new SKYFi Audio System is a real step up in satellite receivers, allowing listeners to take the XM radio receiver anywhere they want. The Delphi XM SKYFi Audio System..the boom box with the SKYFi receiver..retails for $229.99 . The System contains a pair of high-quality speakers with an integrated high gain antenna and a port for the SKYFi receiver. It can be powered by an A/C adaptor to create a high quality countertop/ bookshelf XM system for the home or office, or used with six "D" batteries to experience XM in virtually any location. The system will sell for around $230.00, depending on added kits for car, home or portability. The SKYFi has other important features, including large display to let the listener know what's playing and the ability to thumb through other channels to see what's on before they switch..something akin to DirecTV and never before available on a radio. http://www.xmradio.com/skyfi/.

San Diego Radio Wires 12-12-02

The station at 570 AM will change to adult standards at noon today following Michael Jackson's talk show. This Michael is the talented one, not the no-nosed one ... The new 570 AM will kick it off with non-stop Frank Sinatra music at noon.

San Diego Radio Wires 12-12-02

KLAC 570 AM will change to adult standards at noon following Michael Jackson's talk show.

North County Times - Randy Dotinga
Dr. Dog has both bark and bite... Sometimes, talk radio sounds like a zoo. Turn to almost any AM station and you'll hear snakes, weasels, foxes and a few dodo birds who should have gone extinct years ago. But only one local show is actually about our four-legged friends. Read about it in the December 12th edition online. If you live in the North County area, buy the paper and give the newspaper a reason to exist as an alternative to the Useless-Buffoon here.

Quickies: If all that schmaltzy holiday music on Kool 95.7 is driving you up your Christmas tree, alternative/classic rock station KPRI (formerly known as Sets 102.1) is offering an alternative on its Web site, authenticrock.com. Tune in to hear an all-Christmas-music "station" featuring tracks by hip rock artists.

... The Temecula region, the land of yuppies just north of us, now has a new format on an old frequency. The Clear Channel company has dumped 94.5 FM's simulcast of San Diego talk station KOGO and replaced it with a simulcast of "My 94.1," the female-oriented local light-rock station.

Ah, those lucky Temeculans. They'll get to hear morning show hosts "Jagger & Kristi," the artificially sweetened married disc jockey team that used to be at Star 100.7 ...

North County Times - Ann Zivotsky
While Telemundo and Univision battle for Spanish-speaking viewers, a new weekly program, "Urban Latino," is aiming for young, English-speaking Latinos. Both an entertainment and public information show, "Urban Latino" (12:30 a.m. Fridays, XETV/Channel 6 and 11:30 p.m. Saturdays XUPN/Channel 13, which is Channel 49 if you're in Tecate) is gaining viewers.

The San Diego Reader Blurt
On November 19, Clear Channel San Diego fired 34 staffers, including afternoon DJ Benny Martinez, who was heard on oldies station KOOL 95.7. This means that there are two local Clear Channel stations with only one live-and-local DJ. KOOL 95.7 is only live and local in the morning with Dave Mason, and afternoon DJ Mike O'Brian is the only live-and-local DJ on country station Bob 99.3. The rest of the day, both stations rely on voice-tracked DJ feeds from air talent based in other cities. -- Ken Leighton

"P.O.D. did not get played on local radio until after they were signed to Atlantic, and 91X was one of the last stations in the nation to add them to their playlist," says a local insider who would know. Read more at the website!

Los Angeles Radio Wires 12-12-02

12/11.8/02 - Another talk-radio site. Here's another site with talk-show links: vgi2.tripod.com/, streaming? From the ctcr bb

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L.A. Arbitron Period 2 ratings are out. Find them yourself!

San Diego Radio Wires 12-10 1/2-02

Premium Radio 92/1 is having another holiday concert. It's a free concert with two canned food items.

Los Angeles Radio Wires 12-10-02

San Diego Radio Wires 12-10-02

L.A., CA
12/9.7/02 - FYI - "Internet radio station offers a platform for a plethora of talk shows. Sally Cravens knows what she wants. And several months ago, the Vista resident decided she wanted her own radio show..." More at SD-Union. Moreover.com/'s tip. The wsradio site is at http://www.wsradio.com/.

Quiz: What did D.T. do Friday at 8pm?

1. Go to Jingle Ball
2. Go to Frosty The Show Man
3. Eat a chimichanga meal while watching TV

Answer: Eat a chimichanga meal while watching TV.

National Radio Wires 12-10-02

New Radio Star
LIQUID AUDIO FINALLY BITES THE DUST..board votes to dissolve company... (December 9, 2002 12:51pm) The board of Liquid Audio voted Friday to dissolve the company. The Redwood City, California company had stayed much longer than other sound format software companies under the massive success of Real Audio, Windows Media and mp3. The board had opposed a $100 million dollar merger plan in November and a takeover from investor Steel Partners II before that. Unlike other "dot.com" companies the stockholders will not be totally left holding the bag. The board also approved a $2.50 per share dividend on Friday. Liquid Audio will continue to operate until it has disposed of its assets.

Billbored Music Award Winners 12-10-02

2002 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS

Here are the winners of the 2002 Billboard Music Awards, as presented on the Dec. 9 live Fox broadcast from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas:

Artist of the year: Nelly
Male artist of the year: Nelly
Female artist of the year: Ashanti
Top new pop artist of the year: Ashanti
Group/duo of the year: Creed
Album of the year: "The Eminem Show" (Aftermath/Interscope), Eminem
Group/duo albums artist of the year: Creed
Hot 100 singles artist of the year: Ashanti
Hot 100 Singles male artist of the year: Nelly
Hot 100 singles group/duo of the year: Nickleback
Hot 100 single of the year: "How You Remind Me," Nickelback
Hot 100 airplay single of the year: "How You Remind Me," Nickelback
Top 40 track of the year: "How You Remind Me," Nickelback
R&B/hip-hop artist of the year: Ashanti
R&B/hip-hop male artist of the year: Nelly
R&B/hip-hop female artist of the year: Ashanti
New R&B/hip-hop artist of the year: Ashanti
R&B/hip-hop album of the year: "The Eminem Show" (Aftermath/Interscope), Eminem
R&B/hip-hop single of the year: "Foolish," Ashanti
R&B/hip-hop singles artist of the year: Ashanti
R&B/hip-hop single (sales) of the year: "Uh Huh," B2K
Rap artist of the year: Nelly
Rap track of the year: "Hot in Herre," Nelly
Country singles artist of the year: Toby Keith
Rock artist of the year: Puddle Of Mudd
Rock track of the year: "Blurry," Puddle Of Mudd
Modern rock artist of the year: Puddle Of Mudd
Modern rock track of the year: "Blurry," Puddle Of Mudd
Dance/club play artist of the year: Cher
Electronic album of the year: "18," Moby
Electronic albums artist of the year: Moby
Catalog artist of the year: Creed
Catalog album of the year: "Human Clay," Creed (Wind-Up)
Century Award: Annie Lennox
Artist Achievement Award: Cher
Special Billboard Award: Michael Jackson (recognizing his 1982 Epic album "Thriller," which spent more weeks at No. 1 (37 weeks) than any other album in the history of The Billboard 200.

Top Ten (December 2-8, 2002)

1. Sabrina the Teenage Witch (WB)
2. South Park (COM)
3. That 70's Show (FOX)
4. Bernie Mac (FOX)
5. King of the Hill (7:30pm) (FOX)
6. Jay Leno (average for the week) (NBC)
7. Craig Kilborn (CBS)
8. Futurama (FOX)
9. King of the Hill (8:30pm) (FOX)
10. Saturday Night Live (NBC)