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Radio Continues To Fall To Pieces (June 2, 2004)rronlineHoward Stern: "Iİm Finished"... The WXRK/New York-based syndicated morning host, who has worked with outgoing Viacom President/COO Mel Karmazin for more than 18 years, told listeners this morning that (there is no guy who can calm me down as much as Mel.ö Stern noted that Karmazin merged his own company, Infinity, with Viacom and that he is the victim of a (pissing match with Sumner that got out of hand.ö Stern said, (I donİt understand how Mel could resign. He resigned; Iİm in shock. Heİs my backup here. I donİt know that Sumner would back me up. This is definitely the nail in my coffin.ö WXRK VP/GM Tom Chiusano told Stern that he was unaware of Karmazinİs departure until an official release from the company was sent out this morning. (Itİs a sad day,ö Chiusano said. Stern sidekick Robin Quivers added later that the show (has no friendsö at Infinity anymore and said, (This is over.ö Meanwhile, Stern hinted that a move to Sirius or XM could be in the works. (I am ready to end radio as you know it. I see the future, and the future is not this,ö he said. Commentary: San Diego Radio Living in a Vaccum... While the music revolution continues on Internet radio and satellite programming services XM and Sirius, exposing locals to genres that are not heard locally, local radio continues to valiantly ignore the trends by eschewing genres such as dance, reggae, folk, comedy, and rock-country in favor of soft music all over the dial. The choices in radio in San Diego, Los Angeles, Riverside, Palm Springs, Ventura, and most anywhere you drive to are literally full of unexciting radio formats filled with forgettable music. It's no wonder that nowadays, I just can't get by without a MP3 and satellite radio player to escape the mundane selection of music many stations, programmed by miseducated Gen-Y music directors, are boring the older generations to death with. Oblivious to the programmers at Z90 and MORE-FM are radio stations on the Internet playing dance music that Z90 used to play in the 90s but has since dropped in favor of boring rap and R&B, with MORE-FM offering nothing new to the radio scene either. Tuesday brought the debut of the lame Mikey Show on Rock 105.3, but he was broadcasting from a studio in San Jose and will do so until a studio is built in the CCSD building due June 22. Aside to talking about the Howard Stern controversy, he began running an unfunny series making fun of retarded people and dissed the much-better "Bob and Tom Show" syndicated by Clear Channel's Premiere Networks syndication arm. Sorry Mikey, your show is a bore, just like Dave Rickards's. Neither of you can do radio right. Why does San Diego continue to be America's Behindest City? Just listen to these two non-talent deejays and you'll hear what I mean. January 2006...will we be hearing Howard Stern on satellite radio after his Infinity contract runs out? I'm rooting for Stern to not renew with Infinity and move to satellite and dump broadcast radio's outdated limitations forever. And in case you haven't noticed, some overpriced county fair is coming to San Diego. Forget the June fair, and save your money for the Orange County Fair when Weird Al Yankovic plays for a week up there. You can get by with just $27 dollars a person. With TV and radio unwatchable and unlistenable for the most part, it's only a miracle that there is such as high demand for cable and satellite today to get away from the idiot broadcasters who insist on programming for the lowest common denominator.
Newspapers Too Continue To Fall To Pieces (June 2, 2004)Meanwhile, speaking of moron media, the Union Tribune editor runs a piece-of-crap piece telling the minimum-wage laborers to go screw themselves as they fire off an anti-minimim wage editorial READ HERE. while the half-baked Union Buffoon editor claims that and I quote "a study showing that minimum wage restaurant workers actually averaged $26 an hour when their tips are factored in". Something tells me that this Buffoon editor is simply against the wage increase because the paper employs many employees such as the press room operators who work for minimum wage. I have yet to meet anyone who works at a restaurant who continuously makes $10 an hour on every friggin' hour that they are on the clock. The editorial is as phony as Preston Turegano claiming that there is no radio news to report.What are the Union Buffoon editors smoking? |