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Breaking News: Peter Jennings Dies at 67 (updated 9:55pm August 7, 2005)Last year at this time, we had Dan Rather at CBS, Tom Brokaw on NBC, and Peter Jennings on ABC anchoring the nighly news on their respective networks.As of today, all three are no longer anchoring the evening news. Sadly, one left us not by retirement. Canadian-born Peter Jennings, a newsman for five separate decades, died Sunday at the age of 67. Jennings, who announced in April that he had lung cancer, died at his New York home, ABC News President David Westin said late Sunday. Smoking, alas, got him. "Peter has been our colleague, our friend, and our leader in so many ways. None of us will be the same without him," Westin said. He remained a Canadian until 2003, when he became a U.S. citizen, saying it had nothing to do with his politics — he did it for his family. Jennings was picked to anchor the evening news on ABC and debuted on Feb. 1, 1965. He was 26. Reassigned as a foreign correspondent, Jennings thrived there. He also established an ABC News bureau in Beirut, and became an expert on the Middle East. Jennings won a Peabody Award for a 1974 profile of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Jennings covered the hostage-taking of Israeli atheletes by a terriorst group during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. In 1978, Jennings returned to the evening news when the late Roone Arledge retooled the struggling newscast and relaunched it as "World News Tonight." Arledge used a three-anchor team, along with Frank Reynolds from Washington, and Max Robinson in Chicago. Jennings was from London, also the chief foriegn correspondent. Following Reynolds' death from cancer, ABC abandoned the multi-anchor format and Jennings became sole anchor on Sept. 5, 1983 where he stayed until his passing. No permanent news anchor has been announced at this time. Fill In The Blank Radio Show (August 8, 2005)Grant Baciocco, the lead singer of the psuedo group "Throwing Toasters", hosts an one-hour comedy radio show titled "Fill In The Blank" on Monday nights on dementiaradio.org. For those who can't get home early enough to catch it at 5pm when most everybody in San Diego is still commuting, you can listen to last week's show via podcast by clicking on one of these links.FM 94/9 MGD "About The Music" Concert Sold Out (Happens August 12, 2005)The first in a series of four intimate concerts to benefit FM 94/9's "About The Music" grant to raise money for music education in the San Diego County Public schools has sold out.The first concert happens on Friday with "Our Lady Peace", presented by FM 94/9 and MGD at Brick By Brick. This benefit show is for ages 21 and up and all of the ticket sales go to the "About the Music Grant." Our Lady Peace is supporting their new album "Healthy in Paranoid Times" which will be released August 30th. It's About the Music series is supported by Miller Genuine Draft. FM 94/9 Halloran Dog Dare (August 8, 2005)Some interesting songs were played during the daily 4pm feature hosted by DJ and music director Mike Halloran.Thursday, somebody requested "Atomic Dog" by George Clinton, one of the most demented funk classics of the 80s, but it was Friday's edition that intriqued me. The late Johnny Cash was featured, but it was a song from a motel commercial I never heard (because I fast-forward through the ads on the video tape recorder, yup, I still use those for All My Children and Letterman). It was the song "I've Been Everywhere" off his CD "Unchained". Make your Dog Dare requests (perhaps Axel F by Crazy Frog?) by clicking here: http://www.fm949sd.com/station/dogdare.cfm Fill out all the stuff at the link above...and Dog DARE him!
DFSXRadio.com Listener Count (August 8, 2005)I haven't done this in a while, but let's go ahead and see how the metro areas that listen to dfsxradio.com rank in the past 30 days.Listen to DFSX Comedy Radio 24 hours a day. Top Ten Cities That Listen to dfsX.
1. Cleveland, OH: 139:40
Looks like San Diego needs to play catch-up with the other cities. Please tell your friends to listen to dfsxradio.com. Don't let Los Angeles beat you in this game. Things David Tanny Never Done or Owned in This Millenium That is Considered Common Today (Updated August 8, 2005)Used an iPod.Used an ATM. Visited in a movie theater. Watch UPN Watch HBO Swam. Surfed. Skiied Use a camera-phone-thingy-whatever it is Subscribe to wireless phone Own a TiVo Drive a stick shift Vote yes on any proposition benefitting the public school system that tricks kids into failing. Give to a church that preaches superstitution instead of useful facts Woke up at 6am just to catch a San Diego-based morning radio show. Visit Las Vegas Set a preset to KIFM in the car Watch ABC's prime-time lineup except for sports See Chargers football live Own a satellite dish Bought a hip-hop/rap CD from artists other than "Luke Ski" or "Sudden Death." Gotten a tatoo Go see live music Go to Balboa Park Visit Gaslamp See Padres baseball live Go to PB (not merely driving through it) Visit Museums Camping San Diego Zoo Hillcrest Old Town Open Letter to the U-T (August 8, 2005)Dear Editor:re: Teachers drop proposal to raise commercial tax Union, business groups cooperate, By Ed Mendel, August 5, 2005 That $50 million dollars that the California Teachers Association could go a long way towards purchasing the latest textbooks for their students instead of wasting it on trying to defeat Proposition 76. It's the schools that need to start operating within their budgets; they don't need any more of our tax dollars. Until we get schools to churn out graduates who can read, do arithmetic, and know musical genres besides those airing on Clear Channel radio, the teachers can suffer until the cows come home. I'm sick of visiting a convieience store and be greeted by clerks who can't read what a coupon says, can't add up the prices, and have mindless pop blasting out of the store's speakers. The clerks at the 7/11 on Fletcher Parkway in Fletcher Hills is one example of our failure of our public schools to teach them how to read a price. Vote yes on Proposition 76 and send the teachers a message that we taxpayers demand better educating with less wasteful spending. sincererly, David Tanny Word to the employers at 7/11 and AM/PM: either hire clerks who can read or you won't see me coming back as a customer. |