National Radio Wires 5-31-03!
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FCC Criticized For Closed-Door Sessions With Media Execs...
On May 22 R&R told you about the Center For Public Integrity's complaints concerning more than 2,500 trips taken by FCC officials over the past eight years, which cost nearly $2.8 million and were mostly paid for by the companies the agency regulates. The center is now complaining about the more than 70 private sessions the FCC's five commissioners have had with executives of the nation's leading broadcast companies, including Viacom President/COO Mel Karmazin. The center says the visits included "dozens of meetings" with each of the commissioners, their advisors and the broadcast companies, and at some of the sessions execs from Fox, NBC, CBS and ABC teamed together to lobby for eased ownership restrictions; Karmazin met with FCC Chairman Michael Powell and legal advisor Susan Eid on Feb. 20 to discuss Monday's vote. The center disapproved of the amount of meetings the FCC held with the executives, since, in comparison, the Consumers Union and the Media Access Project have had only five meetings with the commissioners over the past eight months to discuss Monday's vote. The ex parte meetings conducted with the media executives are allowed under FCC rules.
Ted Turner Speaks Out Against Raising Ownership Caps...
The CNN founder and Turner Enterprises Chairman says that if the FCC further loosens its media ownership caps as many expect it to do on Monday, small businesses will suffer and large conglomerates like AOL Time Warner ù in which he is a majority stockholder ù will wield too much control over what citizens see and hear. "When you lose small businesses, you lose big ideas," Turner says in today's Washington Post. "People who own their own businesses are their own bosses. They are independent thinkers. They know they can't compete by imitating the big guys; they have to innovate. So they are less obsessed with earnings than they are with ideas. Large media corporations are far more profit-focused and risk-averse. They sometimes confuse short-term profits and long-term value. They kill local programming because it's expensive, and they push national programming because it's cheap ù even if it runs counter to local interests and community values." While he notes these views are his alone and that he isn't speaking on behalf of AOLTW, Turner warns that further consolidation in the media industry will ultimately allow companies like AOLTW and other large conglomerates to share news and information, which will eventually shrink the number of viewpoints. "There is always the danger that news organizations can push positive stories to gain friends in government or unleash negative stories on artists, activists or politicians who cross them," Turner says. "But the danger is greater when there are no competitors to air the side of the story the corporation wants to ignore."
Michael Powell To Appear On ABC-TV's This Week...
The FCC Chairman is scheduled to appear on George Stephanopoulos' weekly newsmagazine this Sunday, after failing to make a scheduled appearance on the network's venerable Nightline program earlier this week. The show will air just a day before the FCC is scheduled to finally release its new regimen of media ownership rules at a special open commission meeting. The 9:30am ET meeting is expected to air live on C-SPAN and will also be available for viewing over the FCC's website, www.fcc.gov.
Clear Channel Stations See Nationwide Protests...
About 60 people marched outside KFI/Los Angeles' Koreatown studios at noon yesterday while close to 150 protestors picketed the company's WWPR/New York to protest the FCC's Monday vote on a loosening of cross-ownership regulations. The KFI protest was organized by Code Pink, a group representing women peace activists, while the Gotham protest was organized by another anti-war group, United for Peace and Justice NY. Protests were planned at Clear Channel stations in 12 other cities, including Washington, DC, where R&R hears just one protestor showed up. Clear Channel became the target of the activists' protests because they claimed the company's use of nationally syndicated programming stifles diverse viewpoints. Clear Channel SVP/Government Affairs Andy Levin counters that more diverse choices for entertainment, news and information exist today than ever before. "Radio is the only medium I know where the customer can switch providers at 60 mph," he tells AP.
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PROTESTS CONTINUE ACROSS U.S. AGAINST RULE CHANGES...
Small groups of protestors fanned out across the U.S. yesterday demonstrating against the FCC plan to widen media ownership rules. About 60 protestors marched outside KFI in Los Angeles...a similar number hit Clear Channel stations in Colorado Springs, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, New York and other cities. More protests are being planned today. 150 people picketed outside WWPR in New York Signs like "Farewell Free Speech, we'll Miss You" and "The Airwaves Belong to the People, not Clear Channel" were being displayed.
San Diego Radio Wires 5-31-03!
This week's NC Times Sports by John Maffei
Also UT Sports Media with Jay Posner
Padres need to clear the air on radio rights
Incumbent KOGO (600) and newcomer The Mighty 1090 are the two contenders, and the wait is driving folks batty.
If KOGO wins, it would be business as usual. If 1090 is the winner, decisions must be made on pre- and post-game show hosts. Plus, 1090's management is waiting for the Padres to make a decision before the station decides on what to do with the rather liquid 10-1 p.m. time slot.
One thing that appears certain, however, is no matter where the broadcasts land, Jerry Coleman and Ted Leitner will remain as the Padres' main play-by-play team.
Also in waiting: The SDSU Aztecs sports broadcast packages: which station will it be on this fall?
The Chargers have narrowed their choice for a new play-by-play voice down to a very few.
ESPN Radio (800) has boosted its signal and now booms across the county. The next step ---- maybe within the next two months ---- is to finish downtown studios. Then program director Dave Palet can add local shows. There may be only two local programs to start ---- maybe 1-7 p.m.
Jeff Dotseth, who teamed with Palet at KFMB Radio (760), is doing one-minute commentaries on ESPN (800) and could team with Palet again to form one of the station's local shows.
Good news for rush-hour drivers: A radio version of ESPN's excellent "Pardon the Interruption" will air weekdays at 4 p.m. on ESPN Radio 800 starting Monday. Just as long as they don't try the same thing with "Around the Horn"; accident rates would skyrocket.
San Diego Radio Talk 5-30-03!
From http://members5.boardhost.com/KFMB/msg/411.html
Subject: Will KLNV and KLQV fall under the CC banner if FCC rules are loosened?
Posted by BIG ONE on 5/29/2003, 2:59 pm
"Word is out that the rules limiting 8 radio stations to a market may be slightly increased. For CC/San Diego and elsewhere this means one thing. They may be fully able to own HBC/Univision if all happens as rumored. But in San Diego, it's especially appeling because CC not only owns 8 radio stations on the US side but also controls 5 other stations that broadcast from TJ Mexico across the border. Who would have ever thought that one company could control 15 stations?"
The Wires (May 2003)
From PR Newswire: iBiquity Digital Corporation, the sole developer and licenser of HD Radio (TM) technology, and KUSC 91.5 FM, licensed to the University of Southern California, announced today that KUSC 91.5 FM in Los Angeles is the area's first noncommercial licensee of HD Radio technology
From Calendarlive: Steve Carney: He says many listeners still don't believe it's true, but half of the Southland's top-rated morning radio team is so uncomfortable with the area that he no longer lives here. Thirteen years after it debuted on KROQ-FM (106.7), the irreverent "Kevin & Bean Show" topped the most recent Arbitron ratings for morning drive, in the poll of listeners 12 and older from January through March. When the cast found out, Gene "Bean" Baxter was at his home on an island off Seattle, where he maintains sheep, pigs and solitude
From Bayarea: Brad Kava: When the host on your local radio station tells you about the weather or traffic, there's a good chance that not only is he not in the radio studio, he may not even be in the state. A trend that started with large corporations saving money by having music disc jockeys tape shows for several markets, it now includes ``local'' talk show hosts, people who traditionally gave radio its local flavor. They're not doing it to save money. They just prefer to live elsewhere. Lee Rodgers, the host of KSFO-AM's top-rated morning show, sounds like he is in San Francisco, but in fact has been broadcasting for four months from his Arizona home
From Reuters: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell on Tuesday defended agency plans to relax ownership limits on media conglomerates and said diversity of viewpoints would survive consolidation. Powell on Tuesday thought expectations of a gold rush were misplaced. "I think a lot of what people are saying will happen doesn't make a lot of sense," Powell said. He also confirmed that the agency is having difficulty redefining how it measures a radio market but said he preferred doing so based on geography
From Wired: No More Song Swapping on ITunes Apple Computer released an upgrade to its iTunes music download service that would plug a software hole that enabled users to share songs copied from CDs over the Internet.
From NY Post: Ben Silverman: It's not often that a two-horse race becomes a backslapping contest. But when you're trying to get consumers to change a lifetime's worth of habits, playing nice with your only competitor makes sense. Welcome to the world of satellite radio, where two outfits - XM Satellite Radio and Sirius - offer satellite radio service, and for the foreseeable future will be the only players in space
From the NAB: The NAB presents proposal to FCC regarding local TV duopoly
From Yahoo: Reuters: Critics say the chance of hearing unique and offbeat voices in broadcasting could drop dramatically even as the number of outlets proliferates when the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) votes on media ownership rules in about a week. Like the Wal-Mart supercenters that have crowded out the mom-and-pop stores on Main Street and changed the U.S. retail landscape, the five major media owners could tighten their grip on programming, squeezing out local and independent views
Larry Elder: Beginning Monday, June 2, Larry Elder, heard weekdays from 3 to 7 PM on TalkRadio 790 KABC, will be heard weekdays from 3 to 6 PM
From Calendarlive: Steve Carney: Opera buffs continue to express shock over ChevronTexaco's announcement a few days ago that after 63 seasons, it will stop sponsoring the weekly radio broadcasts of New York's Metropolitan Opera after the 2003-04 season. That sense of loss extends to local LA classical radi
From NY Times: William Safire: The future formation of American public opinion has fallen into the lap of an ambitious 36-year-old lawyer whose name you never heard. On June 2, after deliberations conducted behind closed doors, he will decide the fate of media large and small, print and broadcast. No other decision made in Washington will more directly affect how you will be informed, persuaded and entertained. His name is Kevin Martin. He and his wife, Catherine, now Vice President Dick Cheney's public affairs adviser, are the most puissant young "power couple" in the capital. He is one of three Republican members of the five-person Federal Communications Commission, and because he recently broke ranks with his chairman, Michael Powell (Colin's son), on a telecom controversy, this engaging North Carolinian has become the swing vote on the power play that has media moguls salivating
StarBulletin: Erika Engle: Activist groups are crying out for outcry against relaxation of media ownership limits. Easing the limits will further concentrate control of public airwaves in fewer hands, they say. In Honolulu, two companies own a combined four television stations. Four other companies own or operate a combined 21 radio stations and the owner of The Honolulu Advertiser, Gannett Co. Inc., wants to increase its broadcast holdings. Public interest groups staged a telephone briefing for reporters to argue that the Federal Communications Commission's June 2 vote could erode American democracy
The Olympian: David Ho: National Rifle Association members have sent thousands of postcards to the FCC in recent weeks regarding possible changes. A letter from the NRA told members that "a small group of top media executives could literally silence your NRA." House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin, R-La., wrote lawmakers Wednesday, asking them to oppose proposed legislation requiring the FCC to keep a rule preventing a single company from owning TV stations that reach more than 35 percent of U.S. households. A letter from the NRA told members that "a small group of top media executives could literally silence your NRA"
From Bradcastnewsroom: On Friday, May 23 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), NOW with Bill Moyers continues its examination of media deregulation with a look at the close ties between Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officials and the media industry they regulate. The broadcast will air ten days before the FCC announces on June 2 whether it's going to allow big media to get even bigger by further relaxing regulations on media ownership
From Kurthanson: A Salon columnist insists that, regardless of what Michael Powell claims, new media platforms will not counterbalance the crushing weight of unregulated media monopolies. Critics say, according to the article, "A firm that owns a great swath of the traditional media has phenomenal leverage on new platforms." In other words, the Internet will belong to the NBCs, CNNs, and Clear Channels, just like traditional media. What does this mean for the future of Internet radio, especially when large terrestrial broadcasters have done so little in building an Internet presence? Also in today's issue: -- The Federal Register has published the Copyright Office announcement of a proposed webcasting royalty deal supported by commerical broadcasters, webcasters, the record industry, and performers...
From rronline: The Spring P1 ratings for San Diego. Highlights and lowlights: the losing Padres fuels KOGO, smooth jazz drops, KGB free-falls while Planet tumbles, XTRA-AM from SD drops, and KSDO in its last LMA with Clear Channel is amongst the least-listened. How will KOGO fare in May with KSDO, which many diarists mistake as another KOGO, now history? Read the ratings report at rronline!
From Salon: The big blackout Surprise, surprise: The TV networks that will benefit from the new FCC rules on media ownership have been keeping their viewers in the dark about the changes. By Eric Boehlert
From Washington Post: Steven Pearlstein: To hear it from consumer groups and media critics, democracy as we know it will cease to exist if television networks are allowed to own a few more local affiliates or if newspapers like this one can own a major television station in their markets. The result, they warn, will be a menacing media oligopoly free to wipe out local content, ignore independent producers and relentlessly push a pro-corporate political agenda. On the other side are free-market ideologues and self-serving media giants peddling the equally silly idea that unregulated competition and new technologies will ensure lower prices, higher quality and diversity of views. The truth, as usual, lies somewhere in between
From Siriusradio.com: Sirius Radio will soon enable consumers to listen to their favorite music and entertainment in the car, home, boat, and office. Arriving in time for summer, ôPlug & Playö satellite radios from Kenwood and Audiovox, will be the first portable SIRIUS radios to hit the retail market
From Mediaweek: Todd Shields: Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein on Tuesday said broadcasters should face tougher federal scrutiny on how their purchases of outlets such as newspapers and TV stations will serve the public interest
From Washington Post: Frank Ahrens: The Federal Communications Commission's likely action to relax major media ownership rules is forging some unexpected political alliances. For instance, for the first time a group known as "CodePink, Women for Peace" finds itself on the same side of a fight as the National Rifle Association. These ideologically disparate groups share a common concern. If the FCC votes to ease ownership rules, several organizations -- left and right -- fear they will lose access to the public airwaves. Traditional foes are even speaking a common language, shared by some Democratic and Republican lawmakers
From Yahoo: 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Bites the Dust! Apocalypse? Like, that is so 1997. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" has thwarted the end of the world so many times since then, it's no longer cool
From rronline: The Spring P1 ratings for Los Angeles. Highlights and lowlights: KSCA continues its free fall. KBUA/KBUE drop 20 percent. KLYY-FM passes the 1.0 barrier for a class A FM station, as does KDL, L.A.'s Party Station, filling a need for dance music on the airwaves. Read more at rronline.com's website.
From Kurthanson: The "Holy Grail" for Internet radio -- a technology that will make it as mobile as broadcast radio -- may soon be here, according to Rhode-Island-based KVH Inustries. The company says its antenna designed for receiving satellite television programming in cars and boats could be further developed for streaming audio and full Internet connectivity.
From Bizjournals: If you were to drive through every state in the union, you could, in theory, listen to all 12,000 AM and FM broadcast radio stations. But if that amount of programming is just too ho-hum, wait a bit. You may be able to tune in the estimated 100,000 Internet-only audio streams from around the world with a gadget being developed by KVH Industries of Middletown, R.I.
From Mi2n: Searching for the best webcast and broadcast talent in cyberspace, www.RVILLE.com has launched ôThe American DJ Search 2003ö. Open to all audio producers, working and beached Radio talent, Club DJÆs, Broadcasting school grads, Entertainers, Comedians û anyone who can showcase their talent within an MP3 file, The American DJ Search will award winners with their own daily internet radio shows, prizes and discounts from industry leaders and a chance to create great radio online
From Bizjournals: Barbara Pinckney: Broadcasters line up to buy signal 'translators' from FCC - Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission opened a window for applications for new FM translators. Broadcasters use translators to carry their full-power stations into areas they would not normally reach
From DFW: I am very glad that I am not a 13-year-old girl with bad taste in music. If I were, I possibly would have purchased a ticket for local pop radio station KHKS/106.1 "KISS FM's" annual KISS Party on Sunday night at the Smirnoff Music Centre
From NY Daily News: David Hinckley: FCC chieftain Michael Powell says the public has had plenty of time to comment and it's time to act. Whatever the commission rules, court challenges are considered likely + without a country station in town and with few deejays left on their own any more, New York listeners wouldn't have gotten much on the death of June Carter if Vin Scelsa hadn't replayed a wonderful 1999 interview Saturday night on WFUV (90.7 FM). She performed and talked about her career
From Mediaweek: - Todd Shields: As the Federal Communications Commission last week moved amid mounting opposition toward loosening media ownership rules, some agency executives said the changes could make airtime more expensive while narrowing broadcast TV's audience. Others said consolidation could make it easier to reach broad audiences as bigger media companies offer one-stop regional and national buys. The perspectives came as draft rules, which ostensibly are confidential until an FCC vote set for June 2, went before FCC commissioners on May 12
San Diego Radio Wires 5-29-03!
North County Times - Randy Dotinga
Shocker: Satellite Radio Rises
Eight-track tapes. AM stereo. Beta VCRs. It just seemed easy to assume that satellite radio would quickly add itself to this list of infamous failed technologies.
But while this column's predictions of the rapid demise of satellite radio could still come true, something really strange has happened. Lots of people seem to actually like paying $9.99 a month to listen to dozens of channels on their car or home radios.
Just a few weeks ago, XM Radio reported that it has lured more than 500,000 subscribers (including David Tanny) to its service. That's pretty stunning, considering that the service has only been around for about a year and a half and it's far from free.
XM Radio offers 101 separate audio channels (70 music and 30 talk, plus one premium for an extra fee) to listeners who pay the monthly fee and own a specially equipped stereo. The stereos have been showing up in new cars for months now, saving customers from having to buy them for $199 or more, and the company has just come out with a portable version to use around the house and a version for computers.
One channel, called "Special X," (channel 30, soon to have Dr. Demento on June 2) offers bizarre themes like "Worst Christmas Songs," "Cheesiest Love Songs" (a Valentine's Day special), and "German dentist office music."
Sirius Radio, the only other satellite radio service, is experimenting too. It offers a new channel devoted entirely to gays and lesbians.
Sirius, however, got a late start and has struggled to stay alive. If it keeps losing money by the boatload, expect Sirius to become part of XM.
The San Diego Reader Blurt
Q: When is it possible to make more money from unemployment benefits than you did when you worked?
A: When you are fired as a DJ employed by Art Astor.
KFSD-AM has studios in Carlsbad and a transmitter in Escondido. The station reverted to a full-time classical music satellite feed on May 5, which is what it used to be before the Fox debuted this March, three short months ago. Along with 92/1 and KCEO-AM (1000), KFSD-AM is independently owned by Art Astor.
Jon St. John, Chris McKay, and Art Michaels were all fired on May 2.
More on the three fired jocks at the former Fox 1450, as well as blink 182, and American Idol (???) in this week's Blurt!
San Diego Radio News 5-27-03!
Happy Weird Al Day! - Celebrate it on the 27th of Every Month!
Speaking of Weird Al, he was a phone-in guest on Tuesday's
Brand X show hosted by
Chris Cantore on 91X. It happened, of all dates, on the 27th of the month, the now famous monthly Weird
Al Day.
On Jeff and Jer's show on Star 100.7, it's the Billboard Guy!
Tuesday morning on the Jeff and Jer Showgram on Star 100.7:
Remember seeing those billboards around town from that guy who was looking for a WIFE?
Well, he called or dated about 2,000 San Diego women and now HE HAS FOUND LOVE!
The billboard guy and his new "friend" will be on the set with Jeff and Jer TUESDAY MORNING on Star 100.7!
The Planet 103.7 FM is giving away a BOATLOAD OF CASH!
It might be one of the toughest decisions you'll ever makeàa new 2003 Sea-Doo Sportster 4-Tec, or
a box stuffed with between $5,000 and $10,000 Planet cash?
Guess the exact amount and you'll have to decide between a new Sea-Doo boat from Hipp
Marine and the cash from Valley View Casino!
Read the Details for more.
On Tony and Kris's show on KSON 97.3:
This week (5/27-5/30) listen to Tony & Kris In The Morning and win a copy of Disney's all new
animated adventure "Atlantis: Melo's Return" on DVD!
San Diego Radio News 5-26-03
The Vinyl Resting Place Debuts on KPLN 103.7
Jim McInnes began his first two-hour Sunday night show with the following words:
"We're in the Vinyl Resting Place. Many records are buried here. Some of them were terrific,
some are awful, but all of them are obsolete. But now, I'm going to bring them back to life"
And Jim did by starting off the show with "Black Magic Woman" by Fleetwood Mac, a song covered
by Santana, followed by song after song after song you've probably have never heard before
or in a very long time...unless you own the vinyl albums, of course.
There goes Jim the DJ, playing what he wants to play, saying what he wants to say, for two hours
of an excursion into his own record collection full of surprising classic rock gems that have
gone unheard of in San Diego radio for decades, back to a time when music came from record sleeves
instead of CDs and MP3s.
Remember when scratching records were just an accident? When hot wax meant something with grooves in it?
This is the show for you.
Jim, who is from the midwest, also played album cuts from Buddy Myles, B.B. King, Axe, an early Yes recording covering a Beatles
song, J Geils Band, The Kinks, Argent covering a Three Dog Night hit, Bob Seger System,
Steely Dan, Neil Young, The James Gang fronted by Joe Walsh back in the 60s,
the late Nick Drake's song "Pink Moon" that became popular in a commercial I haven't seen,
Meat Loaf, Moody Blues, Dave Edmunds doing an Elvis Costello song "Crawling From The Wreckage",
Donovan, Little Feat, and ending with Black Foot.
Jim McInnes hosts "The Vinyl Resting Place" Sundays at 6pm on Planet 103.7 and you can e-mail
him requests at jimmcinnes@cox.net.
Clear Channel Successfully Nixes Two Planned CPs
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Six years ago Calvary Chapel of Twin Falls asked the FCC to allow a new FM translator at 91.1 MHz in
Running Springs, CA, which would have allowed the religious broadcaster to air its "Effect Radio" Christian
Rock format in the Victorville, CA market.
Then, in an unrelated request made in 1998, Living Way Ministries asked the commission to approve of a
FM translator ù also at 91.1 MHz ù for its KTLW/Lancaster, CA that would be placed in the Los Angeles
suburb of Arcadia, CA.
Both petitions were swiftly met with joint petitions to deny or dismiss from XETRA Comunicaciones S.A. de C.V.
of Mexico and Jacor Communications (which has since been acquired by Clear Channel and who also
markets and programs XETRA Comunicationes S.A.' four Mexican-owned properties including the one on 91.1 MHz)
on the grounds that the translators would cause signal interference to Alternative XTRA-FM/Tijuana-San Diego.
An original petition to deny the Running Springs CP was dismissed in September 1998, and subsequent
appeals were made.
On May 20, with no explanation, both Calvary Chapel and Living Way Ministries' applications were dismissed
per their request.
Living Way operates a translator for KTLW at 91.1 MHz in the San Fernando Valley;
Calvary Chapel has a translator at 91.1 FM in Lancaster that rebroadcasts the programming
of its KSGN/Twin Falls, ID.
From KPRI 102.1
KPRI AUTHENTIC ROCK BEST BETS:
PETE YORN- 4TH & B - Tuesday, May 27th. Tickets available at 619-231-4343 or Ticketmaster 619-220-TIXS
Matt Nathanson - Epicentre - Thursday, May 29th. Tickets available at Ticketmaster 619-220-TIXS.
Jason Mraz - FREE Music Choice Concert on Time Warner Cable Channel 4 at 9pm on Sunday May 25th.
San Diego BluesFest - Saturday, June 7th at Embarcadero Park. Get details click here.
ON-SALE THIS WEEK...
Lou Reed - 4TH & B, Wednesday, June 25th. Call Ticketmaster 619-220-TIXS or the Box Office 619-231-4343
B.B. King - Viejas Concerts in the Park, Sunday, July 6th ...Call Ticketmaster 619-220-TIXS.
Complete details on the KPRI Concert Page
JIM DAVIS - GARFIELD ON THE KPRI MORNING SHOW
Garfield is 25 years old and he's on tour with creator Jim Davis! We've invited Jim & Garfield to be guests on the KPRI Morning Show Wednesday, May 28th at 8am. To make it special we're treating Jim and 5 lucky KPRI Listeners to FREE food ... compliments of Rubios!
Jim McInnes Returns to San Diego Radio 5-25-03
This Sunday night at 6pm San Diego radio legend Jim McInnes debuts his new program "The Vinyl Resting Place" on
Classic Rock 103.7 The Planet. For two hours, JM will feature long lost album cuts and album
classic that haven't been on your radio in a long time! Listen for LP cuts from bands like The Eagles, J. Geils Band,
Traffic and Led Zep. Hear 'em again Sunday nights! Send Jim McInnes a welcome message from the Planet website
at http://www.planetfm.com/classic.html.
Weird Al Interviewed on Dr. Demento Show 5-25-03
Also this Sunday night, "Weird Al" Yankovic, who just released his 11th or 12th novelty album "Poodle Hat"
on May 20, will be on this weekend's Dr. Demento radio show to play three songs from his latest album, which includes
"Couch Potato", a parody of Eminem's song "Lose Yourself", as well as the Angry White Boy Polka and other cuts.
You'll have to listen to Dr. Demento on the Internet like I have been doing since 1997 as no radio programmer in the Outland
area carries Dr. Demento.
Listen to Dr. Demento on the Internet
Here!
Since San Diego and Los Angeles' radio isn't keeping you informed of the latest on the best
of novelty song music, please see my own Comedy Album Store for the latest in comedy music offerings...
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/1000.htm
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