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San Diego Radio Countdowns 12-31-03!

Your votes are in, now tune in on New Years Eve as we countdown the Top 91 91X songs of 2003 starting at Noon on 12/31, and join us at the Hard Rock Cafe Downtown for the Top 91 91X songs of all time starting at 6pm. http://www.91x.com/.

Magic 92.5 will have old school mixers live at about 2pm or so on New Year's Eve and mixing the soul and disco hits from the 70's and the 80's all day Jan 1.

The TOP 50 from 2003 on KSON! Nick Upton counts down the Top 50 Country Favorites of 2003, New Year's Eve at 7pm (repeats New Year's Day at Noon) We'll post the list of songs at 6pm on New Year's Day!

Channel 933 should have a Top 93 hits of the year countdown going on Dec 31/Jan 1 as usual, but no time when it starts came in via e-mail by the publishing deadline.

KPRI 102.1 has three specials going.
WED. Dec 31, 2003 3p-7pm Top 20 Album Countdown (Specialty Program)
WED. Dec 31, 2003 7p-Midnight Blue New Year (Specialty Program)
Sun. Jan. 4, 2003 11am-3pm Top 20 Album Countdown (Specialty Program)

Tonight is the first Annual FM 94/9 New Year's Hoot party featuring some of the best indie bands around - Guided By Voices, Year Of The Rabbit, Phantom Planet and local band Tomorrows Son at 4th & B on Wednesday night.

For electronica en espanol, try More-FM 98.9 and Exa 91.7 sometime after 9pm and going well past 1am. They did the dance mix shows last year. Wonder if they'll do it again this year.

2003 Proved TV a Mixed Medium Dec 31, 2003

Did a lot of television in 2003 suck? Sure -- but a lot of TV didn't suck this year, too, proving once again that a 500-channel universe has greatly improved the quality of the medium, even if it's raised the confusion level at the same time.

Aaron Barnhart's best moments of 2003 in TV. http://tinyurl.com/2p2c7

And here are the lowlights, conveniently spread over three days:

Monday: News blues. http://tinyurl.com/3fpne

Tuesday: That wasn't entertainment. http://tinyurl.com/2ca3l

Wednesday: Thanks for nothing, Channel 5. http://tinyurl.com/3gmqd

Meanwhile, TV Barn contributor Gary Dretzka looks back on the year of the DVD and concludes it could have been even better but for Hollywood's myopia thing.

http://www.tvbarn.com/archives/017684.html

See you in 2004 -- when in February we'll mark a decade of service on the Internet.

KIIS Update Dec 31, 2003

From Jason Harper:

Toinght at 8pm-2am Club DV8 Koby and DJ Drew and Also In KIIS FM Studios David Styles
2am-3am Carson Daly Most Requested Part 2 of Year in Review 2003
3am-6am Top 102 of Runs Continues All Day
6am-10am Weekly Top 40 Part 2 of top 100 of 2003
10am-11pm KIIS FM Top 102 of 2003 Runs Continous All Day
11pm-12am Carson Daly Most Requested Part 3 of Year in Review '03
12am-6am KIIS FM top 102 of 2003 Conts.

Los Angeles Radio Countdowns 12-31-03!

submitted by Jason Harper:

KIIS-FM 102.7 has all this week, the Most Requested Top 50 of 2003. It runs through Friday. It aired Monday and Tuesday Tuesday 11pm-12am. It will run again on Thursday Morning 1am-2am (Following Club DV8), then Thursday and Sunday night 11pm-12am.

The KIIS FM Top 102 of 2003 starts New Years Eve at 10am-7pm. Then, it's Klub DV8 with Koby and DJ Drew 7pm-1am, followed by Most Requested With Carson Daly top 20 of 2003 Januany 1st 1am-3am. Then on New Year's Day, KIIS FM Top 102 of 2003 Janurany 1st 2004 at 10am-6pm (Repeat).

Star 98.7 has the Top 98 of 80's December 31st 10am-6pm, then again Januany 1st 2004 10am-6pm.

KROQ FM has the Top 106 of 2003 New Years eve at 2pm-10pm

Arrow 93.1 has the New Years Eve top 300 of 60's 10am-12am (14 hours).

The Wires (Dec 2003)

  • Kurt Hanson: Downloading is "burdensome" for the consumer and costly for the provider -- while streaming provides for the best in on-demand "portability" and efficiency. Those are the thoughts of Wharton Business School professor Peter S. Fader, who predicts that the streaming model will eventually win out over the "a la carte" and "subscription" download business models in online music. Also today in RAIN, why the holiday shopping season may have been a present for satellite radio stockholders.
  • NY Times: A federal appeals court ruled Friday the recording industry can't force Internet providers to identify subscribers swapping music online, dramatically setting back the industry's anti-piracy campaign.
    Also from rronline.com: Appeals Court Reverses Verizon Decision..Saying that peer-to-peers are not equivalent to the central-server technology that existed when the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was written, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC today reversed a District Court ruling that ordered Verizon Communications to hand over the name of a suspected copyright infringer to the RIAA. The three-judge panel said the DMCA, which includes the expedited subpoena process the RIAA used to demand the Verizon customer's name, "betrays no awareness whatsoever that Internet users might be able directly to exchange files containing copyrighted works." Today's ruling calls into question the status of hundreds of RIAA lawsuits against accused infringers whose identities were acquired by way of DMCA subpoenas. The RIAA can still pursue the identities of suspected infringers, but it must now file suit and get a judge's approval of any subpoena. RIAA President Cary Sherman said that's going to lead to some changes: "[The ruling] unfortunately means we can no longer notify illegal file sharers before we file lawsuits against them to offer the opportunity to settle outside of litigation. Verizon is solely responsible for a legal process that will now be less sensitive to the interests of its subscribers who engage in illegal activity."
  • (read Stereophile) There's traditional AM and FM radio, there's XM and Sirius satellite radio, and there are various cable and satellite dish "radio" music services. And finally, there's HD Radio. Having invested over 10 years in development, and one year after gaining initial approval from the FCC, iBiquity Digital and several of its industry partners, including Texas Instruments, Philips, Kenwood, JVC, Onkyo, and Panasonic, plan to introduce HD Radio technology to the consumer market during the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 7
  • (read WINK TV) Pirate radio stations are popping on Southwest Florida airwaves. Stations 91.9 FM in Fort Myers and 100.5 FM in Naples both play explicit songs, feature raunchy DJs and are gaining a loyal following. The rap and hip hop stations aren't legal and don't follow FCC rules. Now, legitimate commercial stations are pressuring the FCC to take action. WAVV 101 FM in Naples says the broadcast from the pirate station interferes with its signal. Listeners expecting to hear EZ listening songs by Frank Sinatra and Barbara Streisand end up getting something much different. "They hear obscene language and obscene songs and they think we've changed formats," said WAVV FM engineer Al Baxa
  • NY Daily News: Local terrestrial broadcasters say they are unbothered by Sirius Satellite Radio's $220 million deal to carry play-by-play broadcasts of all National Football League games starting next season. The National Association of Broadcasters has often warned that Sirius and fellow satellite company XM want to compete directly with local radio. But local stations say they're not worried about this deal, in which Sirius will carry the full local broadcast for each NFL team, with local station IDs and ads. "We're fine with it," says spokeswoman Karen Mateo of Infinity, which carries the Giants on WFAN and is the biggest NFL rights-holder around the country. "People around the country will be hearing our game, promoting 'FAN."
  • Toronto Star: In New York City, citizen groups have reportedly banded together in a bid to banish the "All Christmas music format" from radio as a form of cruel and unusual punishment. We're talking about the endless, relentless, unceasing stark raving, maddening #%^&$#@ drip-drip-dripping akin to water torture. The longest-suffering victims are just-barely-pre-postal mall workers who cannot escape "Jingle Bells," which in-store systems begin playing in November and continue spewing until well after Christmas Day. Factoid: There are exactly 362 stations in the U.S. ù with no fewer than eight in the Manhattan area alone! ù that have adopted the All-Xmas format this year. We have it a little easier here in the T-Dot market because a single station ù 97.3 EZ Rock ù has grabbed the Toronto monopoly on the "All Santa, All The Time" format (
  • News Observer: As baby boomers get just a little too old for the taste of many radio advertisers, they may well ask: Will they still pitch me when I'm past 54? For years, radio advertisers have put by far the greatest effort into reaching listeners between the ages of 25 and 54, a demographic group well served by radio and also considered to be the prime working years. But now that the leading edge of the baby boomer generation - those born 1946-1964 - is entering the mid-50s, the radio industry is grappling with the challenge of how to convince advertisers that this very large chunk of the population is still worth paying money to reach. After all, boomers are different from other generations.
  • NY Times: Radio is awesome, isn't it? It's free, it's on whenever you want it, and you can choose from among eight or 10 stations. About the only people who could possibly complain about it, in fact, are people who have to listen to it. They'll tell you that the music you hear on the radio is mostly the same cloying pop junk, played over and over. That 20 minutes of every hour is ads, played over and over. And that as you drive, the signal comes and goes with the territory. Two years ago, two companies - XM and Sirius - came up with the same solution: pay radio. Each went to the trouble of blasting private satellites into orbit. Each beams 100 channels of clean, static-proof digital sound down to XM and Sirius receivers in the cars and home stereos of monthly subscribers. So why would people pay for radio, when they have a free alternative? Because satellite radio is fantastic - a cultural source unlike any other. It's so addictive, the Sirius manual actually refers to its customers as "users." Because the 100 channels are largely free of commercials, their program directors don't have to appeal to all the mainstream, all the time.
  • Remember Those Q106 Cards? - There was a time when all I listened to was pop radio. I was a card-carrying member of KPOP, a top-40 radio station in Sacramento, Calif. I'm not sure what my "listener ID card" was for, but it was cute -- black with hot pink and white call letters -- and it meant that I belonged (read the Gleaner)
  • Press Release: Infinity Streams Five Stations: WCBS-FM and WUSN-FM Debut as First of Five Popular Stations, Spanning Formats and Expanding Programming Selection on Number One Internet Radio Service Dulles, VA - December 10, 2003 - America Online, Inc., the world's leading Interactive services company, today debuts two leading Infinity Broadcasting stations to the top-ranked Internet radio services, Radio@AOL and Radio@AOL for Broadband. New York City's WCBS-FM and Chicago's WUSN-FM will now be available for an online audience on AOL. In the coming weeks, AOL will follow up the launches with three additional leading stations, Los Angeles' KTWV-FM, Washington, DC's WPGC-FM and Chicago's WXRT-FM.
  • http://www.talkradiodailynews.com - Paris Hilton is in line to inherit $28 million - but she won't even need it. The Hilton heiress, widely perceived as a spoiled floozy who never worked a day in her life, is actually proving very adept at making money, and lots of it. By next year, she'll likely have raked in some $10 million, experts predict. The deal offers are pouring in. Some are routine fashion packages, bit movie parts and lucrative TV commercials in Japan, but she's also getting some kinky offers involving nudity, sources said (read NY Post) You'll find this and other "Talk Bites" like it at RDN's sister site,
  • Busineswire: Premiere Radio Networks has agreed to a two-year network radio sales representation deal with Radio One, Inc. The new network, Premiere Urban One, will encompass Radio One stations, Clear Channel Urban stations, and Urban Contemporary formatted stations owned by other broadcasters. Premiere Urban One will be included for measurement in RADAR 80, which will be released in late March, 2004. Terms of the deal will not be disclosed
  • Read RDN: All Comedy Radio announced that network legend Tim Kelly has joined the media company as partner and senior advisor. Mr. Kelly was co-founder of Premiere Radio Network, a company he helped build into the nations largest radio syndication enterprise. He left Premiere in 2002 after 15 years with that company, serving as Executive VP, General Manager. He has also served as a programmer and radio personality at a number of major market stations, including KIIS-FM, Los Angeles, where he developed the early products that would be the genesis of Premiere
  • insideradio: More warning signs from younger radio listeners...Young-skewing demos' in-car listening is noticeably lower than the 12+ average, says a new Arbitron-Edison Research study. Full coverage of this year's Fly-In in tomorrow's Inside Radio.
  • insideradio: Rush Limbaugh feels more legal heat...Limbaugh told listeners this afternoon that Florida prosecutors today seized his medical records from the four doctors that treated him for back pain. "Let us make our position clear, Rush Limbaugh is not part of a drug ring," said Limbaugh's attorney Roy Black in a statement read at the end of the show's first hour.

    Los Angeles Radio Wires 12-30-03!

    rronline
    'Indie 103-1' Names Michael Steele PD... The former KIIS/Los Angeles Asst. PD joins the Entravision Los Angeles-area simulcast of KDLD/Santa Monica, CA & KDLE/Newport Beach, CA as the first PD of the duo's new Alternative format, which debuted Christmas night as "Indie 103-1." "I want to thank Walter Ulloa, Jeff Liberman and Michael Rowles for the opportunity to put some exciting radio together in Los Angeles," Steele tells R&R. "More details will be revealed in the coming months!" The stations will be running commercial-free and jockless for the next few weeks. In other Entravision news, next month the company will consolidate its Los Angeles-area broadcasting operations into new offices at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard. The 40,000-square-foot facility features 23 studios and will house the cluster's programming, sales and marketing departments.

    All Access (registration required)
    Talk KPLS-A/ORANGE-LOS ANGELES made the flip to Spanish Talk on MONDAY (12/29) after a weekend of looped promos for the new format. The lineup includes owner RADIOVISA's syndicated fare including shows with GERARDO LORENZ, JUANCARLOS ORTIZ, DR. EDUARDO LOPEZ-NAVARRO, late-night paranormal-talk host VICTOR CAMACHO, former TELEMUNDO "EL Y ELLA" host GIGI GRACIETTE, and ANTONIO GONZALEZ.

    ALL ACCESS has learned that two KFI-A/LOS ANGELES weekenders are moving across town to join former KFI PD DAVID G. HALL's formerly all-News KNX-A. Food show host MELINDA LEE will take over 8a-Noon SATURDAYS and SUNDAYS on KNX, followed each day Noon-3p by JEFF LEVY's computer show. The shows are a format departure for KNX, which had recently jettisoned the nightly KNX DRAMA HOUR to take the all-news format 24/7.

    KFI's response: TECH TV personality and longtime radio tech talker LEO LAPORTE joins up for 1-3p SATURDAYS and SUNDAYS, and restaurant show host MARIO MARTINOLI doubles up to take over the food show temporarily 10a-1p.

    San Diego Radio Wires 12-30-03!

    XEKTT moved from 550 to 560 on the Tijuana dial. Problem with that is that it still causes interference with some nearby stations. Instead of causing adjacent channel interference with Tijuana's 540 and co-channel interference with Bakersfield's and Phoenix's 550, it causes co-channel interference with KSFO in San Francisco, K??? in Yuma, KMON 560 in Great Falls, Montana, adjacent channel interference with KLAC 570,

    KOGO Airs the Holiday Bowl 12-30-03!

    HOLIDAY BOWL LIVE ON KOGO The Pacific Life Holiday Bowl at Qualcomm Stadium on December 30th will feature Washington State of the Pac 10 against Texas from the Big 12 Conference. KOGO is San Diego's official Holiday Bowl station with live play-by-play of the game at 5pm Tuesday, Dec 30th. Plus the End-Zoners Tailgate broadcast with Craig and Ben two hours before the game from 3pm-5pm and KOGO will have live special coverage of the Holiday Bowl Port of San Diego Parade 10am Tuesday, Dec 30th live from Harbor Drive along the Embaracadero.

    SDN Forum Question Submission 12-30-03

    From Joyce Anderson: We live East of Bakersfield CA about 25 miles and we had been getting Fox News channel 58 really good and twice now in the last week we can't get it. Can you tell me what has happened to the station? Thank you.

    Editor: If anyone knows, e-mail me.

    Roger Hedgecock Schedule 12-29-03 - 1-2-04

    HOLIDAY WEEK SCHEDULE

    (you really do need a programme)

    ROGER is live and local todayà.at 3pm. But thatÆs about it. Holiday schedule programming on KOGO. All sorts of stuff happeningàso hereÆs what we know about where ROGER will be and when.

    TODAY: LIVE AT 3P AS USUAL

    TOMORROW: OFF (Holiday Bowl)

    WEDNESDAY: ROGER DOES RUSHàno local show

    THURSDAY: OFF (New Years Day)

    FRIDAY: ROGER DOES RUSHàno local show

    L.A., N.Y. Get New Stations For Christmas 12-29-03

    rronline
    Entravision, Infinity launch new formats. Persistent rumors became true in the nation's top two markets over the Christmas holiday, as Infinity's WNEW/New York, which had been running all-Christmas since late November, and Entravision's Dance simulcast KDLD/Santa Monica, CA & KDLE/Newport Beach, CA both unveiled new programming. WNEW did away with its "102.7 Blink" moniker and unveiled an AC format under the name "Mix 102.7" at 10:27am Friday morning. In the first few hours of programming, the new station's playlist included songs by Cher; Everything But The Girl; Earth, Wind & Fire; Mariah Carey; and No Doubt. In Los Angeles, after five days of Christmas music, the duo formerly known as "KDL" flipped to Alternative at 11pm on Christmas night as "Indie 103-1," and R&R hears rumors that former KIIS/Los Angeles Asst. PD Michael Steele is at the helm.

    KNX Gets Weekend Talk Shows 12-29-03

    Thanks to Chris Carmichael for the report. (hey Chris, check out the right hand column!)...

    ôComputer News with Jeff Levyö and ôFood News with Melinda Leeö added to KNX 1070 Lineup Shows to Air Saturdays and Sundays.

    (Los Angeles, CA) û Beginning Saturday, January 3, 2004 KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO will add two special programs to itÆs regular weekend schedule, ôFood News with Melinda Leeö from 8 am û 12 noon, followed by ôComputer News with Jeff Levyö from 12 noon û 3 pm. Both shows will air every Saturday and Sunday.

    David G. Hall, vice president, AM programming for Infinity Radio in Los Angeles announced the program additions. ôMelinda Lee and Jeff Levy have built a very loyal following in Southern California and are experts on very important lifestyle topics for KNX listeners,ö Hall said.

    ôMore than ever KNX is about providing news and information, offering unique perspective to important events and relevant topics. We take a similar approach with the ôKNX Business Hourö which airs on weekdays when the stock markets close.ö

    KNX is welcoming back Lee to its airwaves. Her food program previously aired for many years on KNX 1070 and includes discussion on cooking techniques, entertaining tips, food preservation and safety and trends.

    Levy will provide information regarding all facets of computing. The program will include interviews with experts, as well as helpful computer tips.

    The Inside Track 12-28-03!

    "BEST NEW MUSIC OF 2003" COUNTDOWN ON ROCK 105.3... This Sunday (December 28) between 8pm - 10pm on ROCK 105.3, tune in to hear the "Best New Music of 2003" edition of The Inside Track highlighting the best new music of this year.


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