National Radio Wires 5-24-03

San Diego Radio Wires 5-23-03

Listen to the KFSD 92.1 Wayback Machine

Check out this intersting sample playlist.

The Wayback Machine Goes To The Movies

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW - THE TIME WARP
(The Rocky Horror Picture Show)

THE GO-GO'S  - SPEEDING
(Fast Times At Ridgemont High)

OINGO BOINGO - BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME
(The Last American Virgin)

THE BANGLES - HAZY SHADE OF WINTER
(Less Than Zero)

PRETTY POISON - CATCH ME (I'M FALLING)
(Hiding Out)

PETER GABRIEL - IN YOUR EYES
(Say Anything)

SIOUXIE & THE BANSHEES - FACE TO FACE
(Batman Returns)

URGE OVERKILL - GIRL, YOU'LL BE A WOMAN SOON
(Pulp Fiction)

THE PLIMSOULS - A MILLION MILES AWAY
(Valley Girl)

BLONDIE - CALL ME
(American Gigolo)

U2 - HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS  ME, KILL ME
(Batman Forever)

SOUL ASYLUM - CAN'T EVEN TELL
(Clerks)

DEVO - THEME FROM DR. DETROIT
(Dr. Detroit)

"WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC - UHF
(UHF)





And The Wayback Machine's Salute to John Hughes

YELLO - OH, YEAH!
(Ferris Bueller's Day Off)

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS - PRETTY IN PINK
(Pretty In Pink)

KAJAGOOGOO - KAJAGOOGOO
(Sixteen Candles)

THE MARCH VIOLETS - MISS AMANDA JONES
(Some Kind Of Wonderful)

LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - METHOD TO MY MADNESS
(Weird Science)

DANNY HUTTON HITTERS - WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD
(Pretty In Pink)

LICK THE TINS - CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE
(Some Kind Of Wonderful)

THE SMITHS - PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT
(Pretty In Pink)

OINGO BOINGO - WEIRD SCIENCE
(Weird Science)

FLOWERPOT MEN - BEAT CITY
(Ferris Bueller's Day Off)

THOMPSON TWINS - IF YOU WERE HERE
(Sixteen Candles)

ORCHESTRAL MANEUVERS IN THE DARK - IF YOU LEAVE
(Pretty In Pink)

SIMPLE MINDS - DON'T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME)
(The Breakfast Club)

San Diego Radio Wires 5-22-03

North County Times - Randy Dotinga
KSD-GO: Legendary station takes a bow... Now, KSDO is history, just like its years-long dominance of news and talk. The station changed owners and flipped to Spanish-language religious programming last week READ MORE HERE!

Also: Quickie: Financial guru Ray Lucia, whose show was formerly heard on KSDO, has moved to music station KPOP from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. weeknights.

The San Diego Union TV/Radio
SeaWorld performer/producer wins KFMB's 'Supermouth' title... by Preston Turegano... Dallas McLaughlin, a 22-year-old San Diegan who describes himself as "witty, loud and pale," has won the "Supermouth" contest put on by KFMB/FM "Star 100.7." As result, he gets a $50,000 contract (which is paltry compared with what some KFMB radio folks get) and will be heard from 7 p.m. to midnight Saturdays and from 5 to 10 p.m. Sundays. For the past five years, Dallas has been a performer and producer at SeaWorld for the Sea Lion & Otter Show, Shamu's House of Douse, and Pets Rule! He prides himself on once playing with the Aquabats. The "Supermouth" contest began in February and continued for eight weeks, with KFMB soliciting audition tapes and selecting candidates to compete each week. One contestant was chosen per week to compete in semifinal rounds. Two weeks ago judges narrowed the eight semifinalists down to three finalists.

KSON 97.3
We can now let the cat out of the bag! Tony & Kris In the Morning are the WINNERS of the award for 'On-Air Personality of the Year' at the 38th Academy of Country Music Awards telecasted May 21 on CBS. Read more

Star 100.7
Experience the Music! Star is taking your Funky Weekend Requests for the three-day holiday weekend! Go to the music page and click on the Funky Request icon! Listen to Star and groove to the FUNKIES! It's a FUNKY WEEKEND on Star 100.7! Funkies ALL weekend long starting 10am on Friday...through Monday at midnight.

Azteca America Comes to North County TV 5-03!

A few years ago, I picked up the Los Angeles affilliate KAZA-TV 54.

The network also added a Palm Springs affilliate, KYAV-TV 12.

Readers Letters: Local TV/Radio, etc. 5-22-03

Was incredible. I am a native San Diegan, born in 1964. I vaguely remember Shane in Wonderland, Chester the Jester, Johnny Downs and Uncle Russ (who I think was on 10 when it was KOGO. My nephewĘs other aunt, whoĘs a year older than me, once appeared as part of that showĘs studio audience around 1969 or 1970). Thanks for the memories. It would be great if you could track down some of these folks. For some reason, I think ShaneĘs real name was Duane Schirmer (sp?) or something like that.

From Jim Hack:

XEAK was my favorite station when I was a teenager. When they changed from Rock and Roll to all news, they played the same song over and over for 48 hours. Do you know the name of that song? Some of the words were " I just got back from outer space". I've been trying to find the song for more than 40 years.

D.T.: sounds like a novelty tune I can't think of. Anyone help?

From Tony:

Thanks for the good news on Dr. Demento on XM radio. Why don't we see this kind of news on those other radio news websites or newspapers? I guess they don't care about music, as you say, or any programming that makes radio worthwhile to listen to.

From John Trevithick:

Thanks for putting together a radio news website with stories that I can use. I wish you would keep some of your older news blurts online so I can reread them again. (CRN editor's injection: you can copy the pages to your hard drive for reference as I have limited space to store them.)

The recent stories on comedy radio is showing that radio can be programmed as diverse as cable TV, which has a comedy channel to watch. If we can have all sports, why not all comedy? I listen to DFSX radio online, but I wish you can get it on XM or Sirius radio as the audio is like AM stereo radio. Sounds better than most of the other radio stations that are supposedly aimed at my age and income bracket.

If TV can be diversified to appeal to many tastes for a given age and income bracket, why not radio? I don't care for all-oldies or all-talk or all-soft pop radio. Some sports are okay, but I prefer to listen to masculine melodies other times instead of radio programmed for women. What about programming current rock and roll music for adults, Planet, instead of repeating the same old songs over and talking all over them?

From Mark Pfeifer:

KGB and Planet's classic rock will continue to loose listeners because they're dying off and are not being replaced. Music from the 60's appeal to people in their 60's, and they're not listening to the radio much anymore. Furthermore, classic rock is a niche genre, suitable for a weekly four-hour specialty radio show that plays the same hits every 3-4 months instead of being stretched out 24 hours a day to be worn out like a Top 40 station.

I liked that 70's station on 1450, but that's gone, I guess from overrepetetion. Another example of a specialty show turned into a 24 hour format gone in a song, just like The Beach was!

From Kyle (in Denver):

Thanks for telling broadcast radio and the state of pop music the way it really is... in sad shape. It takes a native San Diegan like you to write about how bad the state of San Diego radio has gotten more accurately than how well you could write about how bad Denver radio has went, or how some non-native San Diegan can write about radio, but I guess the Clearchannelization of Denver radio is almost as bad as the Clearchannelization of San Diego radio is where you live. Radio music playlists are stale and predictable, too much emphasis on teenagers for top 40 music, not enough grown-up music other than slow or old songs, and too much automation going on. I wish you would do more articles on satellite radio as it's far better than what I'm hearing on Denver radio.

From Martin Riggs:

First time e-mailing. I just saw the beginning of the Craig Kilborn show on the Eastern feed to see Weird Al Yankovic perform a song, but when he was saying what guests he had for the night, he makes some bonehead crack about Weird Al's brand of humor not being his "cup of tea" and went on to ask the producer if the song Al is going to perform would be funny. What an @@@hole. Is this how a talented pop culture singer is supposed to be treated? 50 minutes of nothing interesting until Al came on at almost 1:30am! Who cares about Tom Arnold? No wonder Craig's show won't beat Conan's show. Never again! Conan's clay show was a lot funnier than that talk show hack on CBS!

From Debby, on the Weird Al maling list:

oh, I mean Kilborn - or however you spell it, it doesn't really matter. He's really not my cup of tea;)

I thought Al did a wonderful job! WOO! I really enjoyed seeing Al sing 'Couch Potato'. I was hoping Mr. "he's not my cup of tea" Kiljoy would say SOMETHING. Of course, this was my very first time watching his show - so maybe he doesn't talk to musical guests or comment on them. Whatever

all that matters is --

AL you rock, you POLKA! I can't wait to see you and guys in concert.

AL -- You are OUR cup of tea - you're the whole kettle BABY! and that's all that matters:)

From The Ant Farmer:

Seven years of casting spells, beating a few demons here and there, and starring a cute blond with three words in her name playing a teenager in high school and later college and adult life, with her series starting out on one network and moving to another in its lifetime, and coming to an end during the May TV sweeps.

Am I talking about Sarah Michelle Gellar's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or Melissa Joan Hart of "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch?" What a strange coincidence!

Visit http://www.davesfunstuff.com/, the website Clear Channel doesn't want you to know about!

National Radio Wires 5-21-03

Glenn Sacks Takes On Tough Gender Issues on KRLA 5-20-03

In a world where "equality" has come to mean "special privileges," and "rights" means "we want something somebody else has," one man has taken on the task of making some sense of it all.

Glenn Sacks sorts through the rhetoric and separates the facts from comfortable fictions on his weekly radio show, "His Side," on KRLA 870 AM out of Los Angeles. Also available online at http://www.hisside.com/ , this program presents gender issues to the world. Whether the guest is well-known like syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker, or unknown like the LA reservist who lost custody of his son due to active military service, "His Side" takes a hard look at the realities of equal rights for all.

Every Sunday at 11 p.m. Pacific time, Glenn talks to experts and activists from all over North America and explores what went wrong and what's going right in issues from Title IX to divorce to domestic violence. Listeners can phone in and give their take on these questions that now affect their families and communities like never before.

For the first time on-air, you can hear what these issues are and what people are doing about them. Who's to blame? How can we change things? Do we really need to change anything? And most important, How does this affect me? All these questions and more are answered on the "His Side" program.

If you miss the live broadcast, you can hear past programs 24/7 at http://www.hisside.com

Biography:

Glenn Sacks is a men's and fathers' issues columnist and radio talk show host. His radio show, His Side with Glenn Sacks, can be heard on KRLA 870 AM in Los Angeles. His columns have appeared in dozens of the largest newspapers in the United States, including the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and Newsday.

He has made over 100 radio and TV appearances, including the O'Reilly Factor, CNN's TalkBack Live, Fox News Live, and the Al Rantel Show.

Glenn taught high school, elementary school, and adult school in the Los Angeles and Miami public school systems, and in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. As a high school teacher, he was named to "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" in 1996 and again in 1998.