Los Angeles Radio Wires 1-25-03!

Nationwide Radio Wires 1-25-03!

San Diego Radio Wires 1-25-03!

From Brandon: "So what's recorded and what isn't? I'm getting tired of the assumptions that everything on the radio is live!?! I mean, come on, sure in the early days of radio everything was live. I remember hearing time checks, weather updates, and comments on the happenings at the exact hour... but come on, it's the year 2003... why should anything on the radio be live?

"Some people might think that their traffic updates are live!?! On Thursday night, at 7:30pm on KOGO, for example, right in the middle of the traffic report, it started over again! So, I have to wonder, when was the recording done? Was it recorded ten minutes before the bottom of the hour? Was it done at 5:30pm so she can work a nice 9 - 5:30 job? No wonder I end up in traffic that is never reported or, in some cases, the traffic is gone when I hear "The merge is still struggling."

"Maybe that's why KOGO or KFMB-AM didn't report anything about the earthquake that happened in Mexico City. 30 minutes after it happened I didn't get any information from those two stations and had to listen to KNX. Maybe the news casts are recorded earlier as well?

"I give up! Back to making my "mix tapes." At least I can hear the music I want."

San Diego Radio Wires 1-22-03

North County Times - Randy Dotinga
Not too long ago, a man walked into the Greek restaurant in San Diego's Seaport Village, peered at the owner, and blurted out: "Didn't you used to be Jerry G. Bishop?"

D.T. Vents: The RIAA is Playing Adolf Hitler With MP3 Downloaders 1-22-03

Some radio stations are trying to persuade MP3 downloaders to "respect" the music into not downloading them, yet the real fact is that radio is to blame for the decline of record sales by not playing the kind of music I for one want to hear: feel-good fun songs written with an ounce of intellegence as opposed to the junk that's topping today's mainstream surveys.

And, yes, I buy CDs only after hearing the songs, taped or downloaded, which are equally legal, that I like, and my money is going towards giving the artists an incentive to make more. If I can't sample them before buying, then they'll go into oblivion unlistened and unpurchased because radio stations won't play them and people can't download them.

sincerely

david tanny

fighting Moron-ism in the music and radio industries since the 20th century.

Los Angeles Radio Wires 1-19-03

Adult standards KSUR/1260 AM and 540 AM will add two familiar personalities to its weekday morning drive lineup Feb. 10 - Geoff Edwards and Lisa Osborn.

"The Surf will kick the butt of the gorilla," owner Saul Levine said in an e-mail posted on the laradio.com Web site. An obvious reference to KLAC/570 AM.

Edwards was at KFI/640 AM and the old KMPC/710 AM. He's also hosted game shows and local TV talk shows. Osborn is a familiar face on the news and traffic scene and has her own Web site, traffic411.com.

Don Barrett - Los Angeles Radio People

Super Dance Music. In a surprise move Friday afternoon at 5, KSSC/KSSD103.1fm flipped from Super Estrella Spanish CHR to English Dance music (bulletin sent to LARadio subscribers within the hour of the flip). One LARP veteran of the Groove Format (ironically at the same dial position a few years ago) observed the "mixes" are a big part of what the dance fans expect and want and hopefully will be included as the format evolves. Haz Montana, vp of programming for Entravision, told R&R that the stations would be patterned after KKDL in Dallas. Last Fall, the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram wrote about the new Dance format in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. The review of the Dallas station may offer clues as what to expect at our 103.1fm

Jim Ladd, late nights at KLOS/95.5 FM, e-mailed the results from the recent Arbitron survey for his time period. "My little free-form show is No. 1 in Men 25-54; I'm tied with KROQ with an 8.4 - not bad for a consultant-free program," he wrote. "Also, the show is No. 4 in adults 25-54. I am thrilled, to say the least."

For men only: KLSX/97.1 FM never seems to miss the point that their programming caters to men. Bob Moore, general manager, boasted that the station is No. 1 in Men 25-54 from 5 in the morning until 8 at night. Jack Silver, program director, calls the first month of the year MANuary, with all sorts of events.

Recovering: KBIG/104.3 FM's Bryan Simmons' surgery went well, according to his wife, Minda. "His surgeon is confident that he corrected the problems he was having from his previous surgeries. If you would like to send Bryan a "speedy recovery" note, e-mail jandmsimmons@msn.com. It is hoped that Bryan will be back to work at KBIG in three weeks.

KEZY jock dies: Jim O'Neal, a jock at KEZY-Anaheim in the mid-1970s, died Jan. 11 at his Sparks, Nev., home. Before joining KEZY he worked at KOL-Seattle. Lan Roberts wrote to say that Jim worked for him at KORL-Honolulu. He remembered one night during Jim's shift when he got a call from the Honolulu police and was instructed to go to the radio station.

"When I got there, there were police all over the place. Jim had just been robbed. Jim had mentioned on the air that he was hungry, and his 'listener' called and said he was bringing him a burger and a shake. When he got to the station, Jim went to the front door and let him in. The guy immediately pulled a knife and took Jim back to the control room where he ordered Jim to segue a few records and empty his pockets. The thief took his billfold, his watch and about fifty bucks."

Rick Carroll "discovered" Jim on one of his many trips to the islands and offered him a job at KEZY. Jim, 54, died quietly in his sleep.