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San Diego Radio Wires 7-12-03

To those radio stations who never get reported here...the e-mail works fine. Use it to send PR's, or don't and let the other stations get all the press.

KPRI 102.1:... KPRI wants to send you to see the EAGLES! The KPRI Morning Show will be CALLING FREEQ'S next week. If you want to see the Eagles send us an e-mail to KPRIEagles@AuthenticROCK.com

Fleetwood Mac returns to San Diego Saturday July 19th. Look what the cleaning crew found under ROBERT'S desk. Free Tickets for the show. http://www.AuthenticROCK.com/RobertsBigFind.htm.

North County Honor Fund ... $67,500 raised... Hats off to Wally Haley- the registered FREEQuent Listener who gets the Mustang. Wally Haley was the highest bidder on our Auction of the FREEDOM Mustang ... The NORTH COUNTY HONOR FUND will receive $67,500 thanks to Wally's winning bid. (The fund was created for THE CAMP PENDLETON ARMED SERVICES YMCA to benefit the CHILDREN of servicemen and servicewomen lost in military action during OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM or on-going peace-keeping efforts,) Special Thanks to Carl Creason at the Pendleton YMCA, Joe Weir and the really great people at NORTH COUNTY FORD IN VISTA, and Brian Bergen of the North County Times, and The Howard Charitable Trust.

91X:... 91X will be at the IB Surf Tour down at the Imperial Beach Pier this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Click HERE for details on this event. Stop by to see the top pros in the water go at it for cash and prizes. And don't forget to stop by the 91X booth for your chance at 91X Jack Johnson/ Ben Harper tickets, passes to the Beach Bash at the Del Mar Racetrack, and more.

Mark Your Calendars... ...For the last week in September. We caught wind of two HUGE shows coming to town, and we just can't keep a secret. The rest of the world will find out Monday morning, but E-Filers are privileged. Check it:

*White Stripes- Thursday, 9/25, RIMAC Arena, UCSD. Tickets go on sale Thursday, 7/17 at noon.

*Radiohead- Sunday, 9/28, Coors Amphitheatre. Tickets go on sale Saturday, 7/19 at 10am.

White Stripes always put on a brilliant show, and Radiohead haven't been here in almost ten years, so you know these shows will sell out quick! Now, how to get your tickets from 91X: We will be hitting the streets all next week with your chance to win tickets to both shows before you can buy them. Tune in next week for details on when and where, or go to the 91X Events Page.

4 O'clock Fridays Are Back!... If you listen carefully, you can hear the pounding of hoof beats in the distance. The races are returning to the Del Mar Fairgrounds, and that means one thing: 91X's 4 O'clock Fridays is back. Play the ponies by day, catch great live music by night. The lineup is set, kicking off with Buck O Nine on July 25th. Click HERE for the full lineup and details and HERE for an E-File Xclusive chance to score one of our 91 pairs of tickets. Good luck!

Jack White Injures Hand In Car Crash... The White Stripes have pulled out of a few UK festivals this weekend after Jack White was injured in a car crash. He suffered a fracture in his left hand in the accident on Wednesday (July 9), making it impossible to play guitar. According to reports, White's girlfriend Renee Zellweger was in the car with him at the time of the crash, though she was not injured. White was driving in Detroit when another car drove into him. A spokesperson for the band's label said: 'The White Stripes vocalist and guitarist Jack White has injured his hand in a car accident, which took place in Detroit at 1pm on Wednesday the 9th of July. White suffered a compound fracture to his left index finger. As a result, The White Stripes will unfortunately be unable to perform at this weekend's T In The Park and Witnness festivals.'

James Iha a Member of A Perfect Circle?... Former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha has joined A Perfect Circle. Although Iha didn't contribute to the band's new album he'll be onstage for the band's 12-date club tour, which begins July 26 in Denver.

For more music news, listen to 91X for Robin Roth's daily X File, or click HERE to see the cyber version.

John Maffei - North County Times TV/Sports
XTRA Sports 690/1150 will be airing the Oakland Raiders games with full, locally produced pre- and postgame shows. Now fans can listen to the games more clearly in SD. If they want to root for or against the Raiders's opponents, that's their business. Maffei's biased report is on nctimes.com's link above. (note: I have a lot of friends from Los Angeles reading this website and my affilliates, so if you think this SDer is going to dis any LAer, don't bother holding your breath!)

Reminer: The SD Chargers are on KFMB 760 with a signal that carries to the northern part of Orange County in the daytime, and way beyond that after sunset once KBRT 740 signs off and 760's power goes to 50kw.

NFL games from Westwood One and the national Sunday doubleheaders will be airing on The Mighty 1090.

A Clear Channel rep said to Maffei that there are loyal Raiders fans in San Diego and Southern California is an AFC West stronghold.

The Raiders play three Monday night games and one Sunday night contest this season. The Chargers have one Monday night game.

JT "The Brick," XTRA's night-time guy, already does Raiders pre- and postgame shows. And Lee Hamilton will be involved. XTRA will carry the Raiders' flagship play-by-play team of Greg Papa, Tom Flores and Rod Brooks.

ESPN (800) has the All-Star radio broadcast, with Dan Shulman and Dave Campbell calling the action.

John Maffei's TV/Radio Column appears every Friday. He can be reached at (760) 740-3547 or jmaffei@nctimes.com.

Jay Posner - TV/Radio Sports - The San Diego Union
On vacation, but Ed Franey of the U-T reports that the SDSU Aztecs games will sound a lot like a lot of The Mighty 1090. That's because the new broadcast team is comprised of the majority of the staff of the radio station.

John Fricke will do play-by-play for football and men's basketball. He will be joined in the football booth by color analyst and former SDSU quarterback Mark Halda, along with 1090 host John Kentera. Mike Costa, who co-hosts with Fricke in the afternoons, will act as sideline reporter.

Also, Kentera will act as color analyst for basketball, giving the Aztecs their first two-man team in years.

The deal with SDSU is for three years with a two-year option. The station also has secured broadcast rights to the Padres, beginning a four-year deal in 2004.

National Radio Wires 7-11-03

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Proposed Radio-Divestiture Legislation Called 'Very Significant'... That's how NAB President/CEO Eddie Fritts described pending Senate legislation that proposes to require radio broadcasters ù Clear Channel in particular ù who are in violation of the FCC's new radio-ownership caps to sell off stations, even though those stations were purchased legally when the old rules were in effect. "That affects more than one company," Fritts told R&R. "It affects a multitude of radio broadcasters. That's important." He also listed as problematic for the NAB the reinstatement of the FCC's old cross-ownership rules and amendments that promise tougher restrictions on political advertising and the FCC's rule-review obligations. And while it wasn't approved, Fritts didn't like an amendment that's due for reconsideration that would make it easier to challenge broadcast station license renewals. " If you add all of those up, you could come up with a nightmarish view of turning back the clock of gains that broadcasters have made over the last 20 years," Fritts told R&R. "That's very serious from our point of view."

San Diego Radio Wires 7-10-03!

  • EXTERNAL: Steve Carney: Underscoring how much local sports talk radio is rallying behind Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant in the face of allegations he sexually assaulted a young woman, XTRA-AM (690) has started calling itself on the air "The unofficial station of Kobe Bryant ù we got your back."

    Check out the San Diego radio forum for topics such as short spacing between the SD and LA radio stations, will SD ever get a real rock radio station, the Mighty 690, will Radio Disney return to SD, and more!

    Randy Dotinga
    Mickey Mouse operation closes shop... Local kids who were addicted to Radio Disney will have to live in Fantasyland, at least for a while. After five years of providing the only radio programming in town for preteens, KSON-AM has dumped the Radio Disney format. The low-powered station, one of the oldest in San Diego, is now broadcasting programs in Vietnamese and Mandarin Chinese. The switch came at the end of June when KSON-AM's contract with Radio Disney expired. It's impossible to know how many parents and children listened to Radio Disney locally because KSON-AM didn't show up in the San Diego ratings charts. That's no surprise, because the ratings folks don't bother to survey anyone under the age of 12. Station owners offered to sell KSON-AM to Radio Disney, which has almost 60 affiliates around the nation, but Radio Disney refused. Read more about it in Preview. Also: the nationally syndicated nutball Michael Savage.

    Reader Blurt
    No radio stuff this week. Anyone wish to hire this web editor?

    SD Union TV/Radio
    If you miss Disney on local radio, now's the time to let them know. If you care, click on the link to read all about it.

    Also: "Port Charles" cancelled by ABC. Several affilliates either pre-empted it or ran it so late nobody could catch it. KGTV ran the soaper at 1:40am, about the same time as NBC's "Last Call With Carson Daly". Only "Bold & The Beautiful" remains as the sole half-hour daytime soap opera (the other eight are all hour long soaps). Are soaps an endangered species?

    San Diego Radio Wires 7-9-03!

  • EXTERNAL: San Diego Union: - KARLA PETERSON IN THE AIR; "Turnabout is Phair Play" - Desperate. Clueless. Horrendous. These are the adjectives being hurled at Liz Phair's new album, in which the indie-rock queen goes pop, and the critics blow a gasket. Ten years after releasing "Exile in Guyville," one of the most daring and beloved albums in the alternative-rock canon, Phair had the nerve to admit that what she really wants now is a big, fat radio hit. Then she had the gall to work with producers who might just get her one. Vapid! Lazy! Air-headed! These are the words sputtered by betrayed critics as they watched their fair-haired gal waltz off with the Matrix, the producing and songwriting trio behind Avril Lavigne's biggest hits. But in their rush to judgment, they forgot the word that describes the new Liz Phair best. Smart. Read more about it at signonsandiego!

    National Radio Wires 7-9-03!

    RadioDailyNews is following the stories and links to the current issue of the effects of radio consolidation. Check out the story links they collect there.

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    UBC Radio Network Formed... (didn't I see this UBC name for the fictional network named in Disney's movie "The Barefoot Executive"?)... The newly launched United Broadcasting Company is headed by veteran radio syndicator Brad Saul and former WSCR/Chicago Director/Programming Ron Gleason and includes Emmis Radio among its shareholders. UBC will offer syndicated call-in shows and short-form features from its Chicago-based studios. UBC's initial program offerings include In The News With Craig Kilborn, a daily version of the popular segment on Kilborn's nightly CBS-TV show; What's On From TV Guide, a daily preview of the best on television each night; and The Judge Mathis Show, a two-hour nightly talk show hosted by the popular TV judge that will air from 8-10pm ET, Monday-Friday. The new network expects to announce additional program offerings soon. (UPN should have named their network UBC so that it sounds more like a broadcast network instead of a United Parcel service UPS.)

    Kurt Hanson
    Hobbyists Hope to Reopen Loyalty Talks with Threat of RIAA Lawsuit... From today's Washington Post: "Small Internet radio stations, angered over what they say is the recording industry's effort to wield royalty rates as a weapon to drive them out of business, say they are preparing to file an antitrust suit against the Recording Industry Association of America.

    "The Las Vegas-based Webcaster Alliance will send a letter today to the RIAA, threatening to sue the group for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act unless the RIAA agrees to reopen negotiations over the royalty rates webcasters must fork over to artists and record labels, Webcaster Alliance attorney Perry Narancic said.

    "'We're trying to negotiate with these people, but with a big stick,' Narancic said...

    "The RIAA has not seen the letter and as such had no comment about its contents, but spokesman Jonathan Lamy said the organization has negotiated in good faith with webcasters.

    Read more on the story here

    Also at kurthanson.com: Internet radio's next frontier. Five parts. Too long to excerpt. Read it all there!

    Los Angeles Radio Wires 7-9-03!

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    Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters To Challenge CC/USC Deal... President/GM Saul Levine tells R&R that he's presently talking to his company's FCC attorneys and plans to file a formal opposition with the FCC to Clear Channel's agreement to handle underwriting for noncommercial Classical KUSC/Los Angeles. Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters owns commercial Classical KMZT (K-Mozart)/L.A., and Levine says the arrangement between the University of Southern California and Clear Channel amounts not only to Clear Channel getting a ninth station in L.A., but also to another attempt by the company to drive Mt. Wilson out of business. "Clear Channel has been after me trying to get our mom-and-pop business out of business, and we are going to resist it," Levine says. "The idea of Clear Channel selling Classical is absurd. They are looking for ways to drive us out of business, and we're mad as hell and not going to take it. We want the FCC to protect us from this egregious type of behavior." Levine, who says he may also seek help from the Department of Justice on the matter, says that Clear Channel first attacked his company by returning KLAC/Los Angeles to Adult Standards after a short period as a Talk station - a move that brought the station head-to-head with Mt. Wilson's Adult Standards simulcast partners KSUR/L.A. and XSUR/Tijuana-San Diego. "We're very happy with 'K-Surf,'" he says. "We've not been eroded, and KLAC is now down to a 0.6."

    San Diego Radio Wires 7-8-03!

  • EXTERNAL: From SD Union - KSON-AM adopts Mandarin, Vietnamese format...New sound is said to be a first here. San Diego County has its first radio station aimed at Asians û KSON-AM 1240, whose format has changed from the youth-oriented Radio Disney to music in Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese
  • EXTERNAL: From SD Union - Jay Posner: Remember ESPN Radio 800? Didn't think so. Then again, why should you? The other all-sports radio stations in town have been making all the headlines, either by bailing for the big money in Los Angeles (XTRA-AM) or by grabbing the rights to the Padres and San Diego State (XPRS-AM). But it wouldn't be fair to dismiss XEMM-AM, better known as ESPN Radio 800, as it approaches its one-year anniversary (July 15)

    Jeff and Jer on Star 100.7... 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND... Jeff and Jer hope you had a great 4th of July weekend! Last Thursday, Jeff and Jer had their own FIREWORKS DISPLAY on the air. Go to the Jeff and Jer section of the Star web-site to listen! We'll also leave up the HOT DOG LIST (what's in a hot dog) and whatever happened to the signers of the Declaration of Independance on the Jeff and Jer page of the web-site!

    Los Angeles Radio Wires 7-8-03!

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    KFWB/Los Angeles Adds Westwood One's NFL Package... In past seasons, Sunday afternoon and Monday night pro football broadcasts from CBS Radio Sports have aired on Infinity's News KNX/L.A., while Sunday night broadcasts have been broadcast on co-owned FM Talker KLSX. Starting in September, all football broadcasts will move to News KFWB, which this spring took on a greater sports commitment by becoming the flagship station of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball club. A KFWB source tells R&R that potential conflicts with NFL broadcasts and Dodgers games will be resolved within the next week or two.

  • EXTERNAL: From Reuters: - Susanne Ault: It is almost unheard-of for a radio station to promote shows outside of its home market. But that's precisely what Los Angeles-based KCRW-FM is undertaking in New York. The noncommercial outlet is expanding its L.A.-based KCRW Presents concert program to the Big Apple. And if the program is as successful in New York as it is at home, look for further expansion into San Francisco, says the station's music director, Nic Harcourt

    Inside Radio
    Clear Channel lends a hand to Southern California non-com KUSC.... They've already been partnering on music education in schools -- and now CC will be marketing some of the underwriting opportunities on the University of Southern California-owned classical FM.

  • EXTERNAL: Deal With The Devil? Steve Carney: In a move skeptics might call a deal with the devil, but those involved see as a match made in heaven, public radio station KUSC today is announcing a partnership with the nation's largest radio company, Clear Channel Communications

    KIIS-AM becomes KHTS-AM

    Correction: KIIS-AM 1220 in Canyon Country has changed their call letters to KHTS-AM. There is no merger between the KIIS and KHTS FMs. Thanks to Howard Fine for clarifying the confusing headline found at laradio.com: "KIIS changing calls to KHTS". Forget all about merging the two Top 40 stations in SD and LA.

    Other rumors: KHTS and KIIS swap call letters. KIIS-XM becoming KHTS-XM channel 21.

    And this is brought to you by DFSX Fun Radio San Diego/Los Angeles (et too, brute?). Don't forget to listen to the last two episodes of "I Still Get Demented" Saturday morning from 4am until NOON Pacific on DFSX Comedy Radio. http://www.dfsxradio.com/


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