KPRI Stuff (June 30, 2005)

Over the past three weeks, a group of 100 KPRI Listener/ Judges have reviewed local artists who submitted music to be considered for the remaining performing slot at O'Fest 2005.

We loved every entry and want to thank all the artists, judges, and listeners who've helped us bring LOCAL music to the forefront.

Through their work, the field has been narrowed to five finalists.

By clicking the following link, you can listen to their choices, cast your vote, and determine who will be on stage July 4th.

http://kpri-6355.listenersurvey.com

We'll announce and play the winner on Friday Morning around 9am.

Thanks so much for supporting our talented local musicians.

ALSO...

KPRi-CRUISE CONCERT WITH THE SHORE

Thursday, July 7th, 2005 6:15pm-9pm

Have you heard THE SHORE?

Listen to THE SHORE http://www.kprifm.com/audio/TheShoreMP3.mp3

Their debut CD features "Waiting for the Sun" and "Hard Road"... hear them play during an intimate evening cruise at sunset on San Diego Bay during our next KPRi-Cruise Concert aboard a Hornblower yacht.

THE SHORE is an up and coming band whose sound is a "mix of dusky Verve sway and alterna-rock." As a KPRI FREEQ, you can get two free tickets. (Provided you are 21 years or older.)

The Wires (June 30, 2005)

FMQB: FCC's Adelstein Against Media Consolidation As Congress Prepares Telecom Redux

FMQB: Youths Spending More Time Away From Radio

All Access: Howard Stern speculated on Wednesday's show that Infinity may pull the plug on his show "before the Fall ratings book." Admitting that he doesn't know for sure but that "I hear things," Stern hypothesized that "if we're here for the ratings period in the Fall, they can't sell advertising... (because advertisers) are gonna say 'those are Howard's ratings, we're not gonna pay." Stern is leaving for Sirius in January.

SD City Beat: The Cost of Pirate Radio 96.9

Randy Dotinga: Smart Money's on Wisdom's Disgrace

Kurt Hanson: In today's issue, three articles on how broadcast radio is dealing with the new challenges of Internet radio, satellite radio, and the iPod. Also: Howard Stern affiliates are dealing with the problem of how to fill his time slot after he moves to Sirius... The NY State Broadcasters Association is giving $10,000 to the station that creates the best anti-satellite radio ad, while Clear Channel continues to fight against the medium using public relations and press releases.

"Sabrina" Star Pregnant and With #1 Hit (June 30, 2005)

Ask Clarissa to expain this double phenomenon. People magazine reports that Melissa Joan Hart is expecting her first child with husband, Mark Wilkerson, slated for a January 2006 debut.

Wilkerson is a hard rock guitar player for a little-heard-of band Course of Nature. They met in 2002 and tied the knot in Florence, Italy, in July of 2003 with their wedding being the subject of a six-part reality miniseries on ABC Family titled "Tying the Knot: The Wedding of Melissa Joan Hart."

Hart debut with a three-year run of "Clarissa Explains It All" on Nickelodeon from 1991, then from 1996, starred in "Sabrina" for four years on ABC, then three on WB, which vanquished the witch in 2003 due to being scheduled opposite powerhouses Friends and Survivor.

Melissa not only gave her fans a Hart attack for 14 years, she's also having a jack attack as her recent movie role in the upcoming "Jack Satin" will be released in theaters late this year.

Her voice was also recently featured in the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim series "Robot Chicken."

In 1999, she had a cameo in the Britney Spears video "Crazy", but the year before, she sang a cover of Blondie's 1979 hit "One Way or Another", which ties in to a current demented hit.

A clip of Melissa's "One Way" song is featured in the #1 Dementia Top 20 hit for this week "CGI (the Watch The Frog remix") by Sudden Death and featuring David Tanny plus excerpts from Sudden Death's 1998 hit "South Park Junkie," the theme from the 1976 TV series "What's Happening," Nerf Herder's theme for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, the aforementioned "One Way", and Stan Williamson's "Harry Potter, Harry Potter (Lord Voldemort's Letter)"

And some San Diego radio trivia even related to "Sabrina": one of the songs some of the local talk shows use to come out of or go into the commercial break comes from the "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch: The Album [1996 Television Series]"  soundtrack. Sugar Ray's remake of the 1982 Steve Miller hit "Abracadabra." Click the link to get it from a used CD seller for just ONE CENT!!!