Los Angeles Radio News Wires 12-20-03!

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David Haymore Joins SBS/L.A. As VP/GM... Haymore has been GM of Entravision's Southern California stations since April 1997, and he'll now oversee Spanish Broadcasting Systems' Regional Mexican KLAX (La Raza), AC-based Regional Mexican KXOL (El Sol 96.3) and Tropical simulcast KZAB & KZBA (La Sabrosa). In joining SBS, Haymore takes on a role that had been given to former Clear Channel Radio Sales President Michael Agovino on Oct. 31; Agovino in late November accepted the co-President/co-COO position at Interep. Before joining Entravision predecessor EXCL Communications as GM of KVAR (now KLYY)/Riverside-L.A., Haymore served as CEO of the former Cadena Radio Centro. He has also been a VP of Caballero Spanish Media, Managing Director of ABC Radio International, and VP/Sales for UPI.

Mike Marino To Replace Michelle S. At KHHT... After two years in the PD chair, Michelle Santosuosso has stepped down at Clear Channel Urban AC KHHT (Hot 92 Jamz)/Los Angeles. Succeeding "Michelle S.," beginning today, is none other than Mike Marino ù who was KHHT's PD before Santosuosso's arrival at the station. Look for KHHT to start deemphasizing currents in favor of a return to its original Oldies-based R&B lean. R&R also hears that Renee Taylor will shift from middays to afternoons and that CC may be looking at other opportunities for Santosuosso within the company.

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Nationwide Radio Wires 12-19-03!

Straight out of the George Carlin bit, Congressman Lamar Smith introduced a bill to Congress that would make it illegal to say eight specific words on radio or television. Smith's bill is in response to the FCC ruling that had ruled Bono's use of the word "f--k," on the Golden Globe Awards was not obscene because of the context in which it was used. Smith was quoted as explaining "There's a great sense of concern by many members of Congress that individuals on radio and TV are throwing out words that we'd like to discourage," Smith said the words meet the criteria set by the U.S. Supreme Court of "prevailing community standards," because these words are considered vulgar "anywhere in the country."

Here are the words as introduced in Congress in Smith's bill, section 1464, title 18: (b) As used in this section, the term 'profane' used with respect to language, includes the words 's--t,' 'p--s,' 'f--k,' 'c--t,' 'a--hole' and the phrases 'c--k s--ker,' 'm--her f--ker' and 'a-- hole.' Compound use, including hyphenated compounds, of such words and phrases with each other and with other words or phrases, and other grammatical forms of such words and phrases, including verb, adjective, gerund, participle, and infinitive forms.'

(editor: you mean it's now ok to say 'tits' on the radio? George Carlin always thought it was a friendly sound. Sounds like a snack according to Carlin. It's not just an ordinary sexist snack, I'm talking about NEW Nabisco Tits! ...and new Cheese Tits! Onion Tits. Garlic Tits. Sesame Tits. Tater Tits! Betcha you can't eat just one! But there are some two-way words such as "cock", "balls", and "prick" that have not been addressed in certain contexts.)

National Radio Wires 12-18-03!

Now the NRA talks about broadcasting from a Mexican border blaster -- or a ship... A frustrated Wayne LaPierre tells US News & World Report "If I could find a radio station in Mexico with 50,000 watts, I would go with them." Or -- possibly a ship moored in international waters. The NRA announced last month a plan to buy a U.S. radio or TV station, thus qualifying for a media exemption from the new McCain-Feingold campaign finance rules.

radiodailynews: ESPN Radio's exclusive play-by-play coverage of the 2004 Sugar Bowl will be anchored by Ron Franklin and Mike Gottfried from the booth and Adrien Karstan from the sidelines, as Oklahoma battles LSU for the national championship. ESPN Radio will broadcast the game Sunday, January 4 at 8 pm (ET) from the Super Dome in New Orleans

Letters: Too Much Christmas Music 12-18-03!

I am avoiding KOST and MY as much as I can as long as they're playing endless covers of the same old Christmas songs by artists I don't even recognize. A 7/11 station in San Carlos is blasting away MY's all Christmas format on their radio, which is a good enough reason for me to go elsewhere for my donuts and coffee.

How many times do we have to hear "Let it Snow," "The Christmas Song," and "Jingle Bells" sung by 100 different artists? There are better Christmas songs to play out there. Too bad the programmer at those Clear Channel Xmas stations don't get out much to Tower Records to get themselves a more diverse selection of music, many of which I never heard before. I know that there are far more Christmas songs to play than the programmer at that radio station cares to admit.

Going all-Christmas part-time, like four hours a night, is a better idea than for many of us unwitting customers who are force-fed Christmas messages that are objective to people of other faiths, an athiests alike 24 hours a day.

Thank God I don't work at that 7/11 store. I rather join the picketers at Albertsons next door and get $100 a week than to put up with this objectionable crap.

Would it kill MY and KOST to play Weird Al's "The Night Santa Went Crazy" every once in a while?

San Diego Radio Wires 12-18-03!

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Former Alternative XTRA (91X)/SAN DIEGO night guy ROSSMAN hooks up with TRIAD Rocker WCPR/BILOXI-GULFPORT, MS for weekends/fill-in.

Rumor Wire: Halloran to Santa Monica's 103.1? 12-18-03!

Many people say that 103.1 will flip to an alternative mix similar to 91X in San Diego (now streaming online at 91x.com), but another name has been rumored on the Los Angeles radio forum to take a job there...Michael Halloran.

According to KMRichards on the board, "Michael Halloran, who had his run-ins with Clear Channel in the past, is close to being hired by Entravision to program KDLD/KDLE (103.1fm), but the twist comes in that Clear Channel will be selling the commercial time under a JSA (Joint Sales Agreement). The difference between a JSA and LMA (Local Marketing Agreement) is that KDLE completely controls the programming/format (Entravision) and the holder of the JSA (Clear Channel) controls the advertising. Clear Channel provides sales and sales marketing infrastructure, but they are prohibited from controlling or influencing or participating in the programming. Assuming the deal is worked out with Entravision, Halloran will answer directly to Entravision executives. When the station flips after Christmas to a new format, Halloran will be in charge with no outside influence."

"Typically, the JSA is set up for the station owner to receive an upfront cash payment up to an agreed upon revenue number and then an agreed percentage split with the sales company, according to an informed source. The agreement is for two years."

"Again, if the deal is worked out, Halloran is expected to flip the Dance format to a hybrid of Alternative, concentrating on the last 20 years of music for the target audience. The 103.1fm signal appears to be compatible and cover the area where the format will attract young males. If all of this happens, KROQ, KLOS and "Arrow 93" seem to be the stations most affected by this change."

"Michael was born in Milwaukee and moved to Detroit at an early age and finished grade school there. After leaving the states for an education in England at age eleven, Michael began playing in bands and exploring his love of music. Upon his return to Detroit, he began his radio career at WDET. Mike worked at WLLZ, WABX, WLBS and WDTX-Detroit. He was repeatedly fired for being "too radical." In 1986, Michael headed west to work the night shift at "91X"-San Diego. He quickly became pd and was there for 10 years except for 8 months at KROQ. He left "91X" in the spring of 1996 and joined KUPR-San Diego and stayed until the end of the year."

"In early 1998 he returned to programming at XHRM-San Diego, a station that Rolling Stone Magazine named one of the "Ten Stations in the U.S. That DoesnÆt Suck." [That job lasted until August 1998 when the inept owner of XHRM, Luis Kaloyan, sold the LMA of the station to Jacor and the staff was dismissed (Jacor was later folded into Clear Channel).] In March of 1999, Michael joined "Y107" and left within the year following a format/ownership change [to Spanish language programming]." Michael returned to the airwaves as fill in on KOGO-AM in San Diego in early 2000 for a few months, after which he was hired to program Spin Magazine's web radio station. Halloran was hired in March of 2000 to produce syndicated radio shows for the (in)famous music service provider MP3.com. He was briefly at COOL 94.3fm in Orange County and most recently at the Art Astor station in San Diego [KFSD-FM 92.1 in May 2001 through 2002. In November that year, Halloran became the music director of the newly launched 94/9]."

Los Angeles Radio Wires 12-17-03!

National Radio Wires 12-17-03!

Sirius satellite radio becomes the National Football League's official satellite radio partner in a seven-year deal, signed this morning, under which the NFL will receive $188 million in cash and about $32 million in Sirius stock. Beginning with the 2004 season, the satcaster will broadcast every regular-season NFL game nationwide, along with selected preseason and playoff games; starting in 2005, it will add the conference championships and the Super Bowl. Sirius will also create the NFL Radio Network, a 24-hour, year-round stream of NFL content, including programming from the NFL Network cable channel.

The deal is not exclusive, but Clayton said it contains a provision that would make it "very expensive" for Sirius competitor XM Satellite Radio to gain the same kind of rights to NFL games.

The deal adds football to Sirius' sports roster, which also includes the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League.

Clayton said the deal is back-loaded to allow Sirius to pay more as subscriber numbers grow. Sirius agreed to pay the NFL $10 million in the first two years, $85 million in years three through five, and $93 million in the final two years of the deal.

Sirius is the second-largest satellite radio provider in the U.S. with 200,000 subscribers. Its leading competitor, XM Satellite Radio, has more than 1 million subscribers.

National Radio Wires 12-16-03!

TV and Radio Misses This Target 12-16-03!

Buffy and Sabrina called it quits. Ads for all those newfangled drinks, computers, and phones don't give me any clues what they do or feature. Sitcoms are worse than the sitcoms that were on when I was a teenager in the late 1970's, and ten times less enjoyable to boot. Dramas are too violent and mind-numbing. I can't sit through anything gay. Reality shows take too long to follow; I prefer one self-contained one hour episode a week. Women in the movies and television are less attractive then they have ever been decades ago. Nostalgia and oldies music are educational.

The so-called holiday season comes and I like to hear Christmas songs as long as it's something I can relate to, such as Santa's predictaments, problems associated with the season, nagging kids, spending the green until your account is in the red (hence, the red-green colors of Christmas), and other grim realities associated with the so-called holiday. There is no white Christmas in San Diego. I don't care to ride in a stupid sleigh. Jingle bells is not a Christmas song; where does it mention anyting associated with it? Crooners are great with nostalic formatted stations, not pop and rock stations.

I did all my shopping for Xmas on the Internet...in October! What's the use for all these Xmas themed ads? Malls are obsolete and a pain in the ass to visit.

Why can't any of the kids running the media get a formal college education to expand their cultural knowledge of more forms of music than just hip hop, R&B, pop alternative, and love songs to program Top 40 on the radio? If Deforrest Kelley were alive today, he would tell William Shatner that "it's dead, Jim." Beam us up, Scotty, there's no more intelligent life here.

And I'm only a 43 year old male. What is the media doing wrong?

Letters: AM 560 Interference 12-16-03!

Ben Wilson:

I live in Gila Bend (Arizona), and was having problems listening to 550 KFYI from Phoenix due to Tijuana. Now I can get it again since that TJ station moved to 560. Unfortunately, I can't get AM 560 out of Yuma clearly anymore without all that Mexican music in the background.

From James Zittel:

This Mexican station on 560 has got to go! It caused interference adjacently to KSURF 540, and co-channel interference with KUZZ 550 and KFYI 550 when it was on 550. The Mexican government shut them down. Good. Now they pop up on 560! Now I can't get KSFO 560 San Francisco or KBLU 560 from Yuma. I can't get The Fabulous 570 either. I still can't get KUZZ or KFYI at night either. Just what San Diego needs, yet another useless Mariarchi music format.

From Greg Hardison:

Some background on the Mexican interference: ôCirca 1973, the Mexican government allocated 560 kHz for use in Tecate. There was some question of short-spacing, to KBLU/560 in Yuma, Arizona, but such questions were rendered moot by the fact that the station was never built...until this week. The move of XEKTT [originally at 1600 kHz, with little or no signal even in San Diego] to 550 was probably the result of a smudged æ6Æ becoming a æ5Æ on some obscure document issued in the D.F.; thus the goof was made. As of yesterday, XEKTT is putting an equal-to-550 signal into the San Fernando Valley on 560. This should reduce interference to the Saul Levine-brokered XESURF in Tijuana on 540, and will help Clear Channel in Phoenix, victims of co-channel interference to their KFYI, anywhere outside Downtown Phoenix. CC also owns the now-ill-fated KBLU in Yuma; perhaps our friends across the border are harboring a CC-fixation? At any rate, that's the story...the station never was a æpirate,Æ but was ostensibly the result of a sloppy procedure, fulfilling a 30 year old allocation.ö Thanks, Greg

Letters: DFSX Radio 12-16-03!

Hello!

I just wanted to tell you that I thoroughly enjoy your radio station on Live365.com. I've been listening to it for about 4 months every single day at work. I've also tried some of the other comedy stations, but always end up coming back to your station. The songs and comedy are not overly offensive and curse word filled ( no Andrew Dice Clay type stuff) and I am always cracking up out loud making people look at me funny, hehe. ( I LOVE your Carla Ulbrich stuff! "My Name is Carla" is great.)

Thanks for sharing all this great stuff!

San Diego Radio Wires 12-16-03!

The call letters are XEKTT and runs 20 kilowatts daytime and 10 kilowatts nighttime, non-directional at all times.

KSUR picks up drama programming 12-15-03!

The new weeknight lineup will be "When Radio Was" at 8 p.m., in which host Stan Freberg presents and comments on excerpts of everything from "The Lone Ranger" and "The Fred Allen Show" to "Dragnet" and "Screen Directors Playhouse"; "The Drama Hour" at 9 p.m., featuring complete episodes of such classics as "Fibber McGee and Molly," "Burns and Allen" and "The Jack Benny Program"; and "Imagination Theater" at 10 p.m., mysteries written in recent years but performed in the old-fashioned style.

"The Twilight Zone," which had been airing weeknights since Nov. 17, will move to Sundays at 8 p.m., followed at 9 by reruns from "The Lux Radio Theatre."

Los Angeles Radio Wires 12-15-03!

Its a JSA, not LMA. CC will sell the ads, Entravision will be responsable for the programming.

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The rumor mongers are churning at full-speed that ENTRAVISION Top 40/R KDLD-KDLE (KDL 103.1)/SANTA MONICA-LOS ANGELES will flip to either Alternative or Active Rock next MONDAY (12/21). According to 100000watts.com the new format will be Alternative, but ALL ACCESS is also hearing from sources that the new format could be Active Rock. CLEAR CHANNEL spun off then-AAA KACD-KBCD "103.1 WORLD CLASS ROCK" in late-2000 to ENTRAVISION, which flipped to Spanish as "SUPER ESTRALLA" in JANUARY 2000 before later becoming "103.1 KDL." Now, ENTRAVISION is reportedly entering a JSA with CLEAR CHANNEL, which will sell time for the station, but ENTRAVISION will continue programming the station since CLEAR CHANNEL already owns the maximum of eight signals in the market. Here's what we know so far: The entire airstaff at "KDL 103.1" was jettisoned this past FRIDAY (12/12), which included the morning show RICO BANANA, CHAD DAM, and ERIKA. The 103.1 frequency has been several different formats over the years. It has included: AAA "WORLD CLASS ROCK, Jazz "CD103.1 FM," Alternative "MARS-FM," and AC "K-SURF." We will keep you posted as we learn more on this developing story.

KSUR picks up drama programming 12-15-03!

The new weeknight lineup will be "When Radio Was" at 8 p.m., in which host Stan Freberg presents and comments on excerpts of everything from "The Lone Ranger" and "The Fred Allen Show" to "Dragnet" and "Screen Directors Playhouse"; "The Drama Hour" at 9 p.m., featuring complete episodes of such classics as "Fibber McGee and Molly," "Burns and Allen" and "The Jack Benny Program"; and "Imagination Theater" at 10 p.m., mysteries written in recent years but performed in the old-fashioned style.

"The Twilight Zone," which had been airing weeknights since Nov. 17, will move to Sundays at 8 p.m., followed at 9 by reruns from "The Lux Radio Theatre."