Random Access Radio Changes Name (Aug 12, 2005)

We made a major change to the format of the weekly feature. Most of the music playlists from the other radio stations (except for FM 94.9 and Planet 103.7) will no longer be featured beginning this week.

Also, due to copyright concerns, links to the Clear Channel-owned radio stations and its subpages have been removed from this page. When Clear Channel's legal team grants us the right to republish some of the promotions on this website, then we can reinstate them.

In their places we have added links to radio stations that carry the Dr. Demento radio show weekly on the web.

Enjoy the new format.

Late Late News (OK to Release after 9pm, Aug 12, 2005)

Thursday night was the KIOZ-FM (aka Rock 105.3) debut of the San Diego Charger broadcasts. This is the second San Diego-based FM radio station to carry an entire season of the team telecasts. There was a three-hour pregame show starting at 2pm, followed by the game at 5pm where the team plays the Packers at Green Bay (aka Cheesehead City). Josh Lewin and Hank Bauer give the play by play and color. Last night's game was their first pre-season game for 2005, followed by St. Louis Rams (at home), Minnesota Vikings (away), and the San Francisco 49ers (home). Remember that the home games may not be televised on KFMB 8 (last night's game was on KGTV 10 and ESPN) unless the home games sell out 72 hours in advance, so stop complaining about the blackouts and shell out your money so us poor cheapskates can watch the games for free. ROCK 105.3 Charger Schedule Here

The Wires (Aug 12, 2005)

LA Times: KBX Relocates to New Studios on Wilshire Blvd.

LA Times: KBX Relocates to New Studios on Wilshire Blvd.

BelfastTelegraph: 10 Years Ago This Month...remember when the Internet was just getting started as a consumer medium? This week 10 years ago: August 9th, 2005 - $3 billion dollar flotation of Netscape helps to begin a 5 year dot com boom. Annual fee introduced for the registration of domain names. Microsoft starts giving away Internet Explorer 1.0 with its Windows 95 operating system. RealAudio launched. The Vatican releases a web site. AltaVista search engine launched. Other highlights: 1996: Netscape's share of browser market peaks at 87 per cent. (Internet Explorer has 4 per cent.) 1997: NASA's website receives 46 million hits when Pathfinder sends back pictures from Mars. 1998: Online Drudge Report breaks story of Clinton-Lewinsky relationship. When the Starr Report into the scandal is released online eight months later, the internet has its busiest day ever. 1999: Student Shawn Fanning launches the Napster peer-to-peer service, enabling computers to share files directly with each other. 2000: The "I Love You" worm becomes the costliest in the history of the internet. 2001: Napster is banned from distributing copyrighted music. 2002: Apple sells its millionth iPod. 2003: Recording Industry Association of America sues 261 people for distributing copyright music files over the internet. 2004: MyDoom worm becomes internet's worst-ever virus. 2005: Citizen journalists are now appearing daily, not just on the big news sites. Nowpublic.com and Scoopt.com offer people the chance to be photojournalists, while podcasting (a grassroots internet radio movement akin to audio blogging) is hugely popular after just one year. Also noted: 87 per cent of the world's e-mail is spam. Read the rest of the article at the link above.

FMQB: Car Wars: HD Radio vs. Satellite Radio

RadioInk: Stern on Podcast?

R&R: Apple Threat Worries RealNetworks

All Access (registration required). KUSS has some more big news. Morning show duo, TONY & KRIS scored an exclusive interview this FRIDAY, AUGUST 11th with FAITH HILL. The interview will mark HILL's first interview in SAN DIEGO in over four years.

D.T.'s 10 Years on the Web (Aug 12, 2005)

1996: D.T. learns about the existance of listening to Internet radio on the web, which would be the savior in the realm of cookie-cutter sameness common on Southern California radio. Top uses for streaming radio: Electronica, Americana, and Dr. Demento-type music.

1997: D.T. launches a small section that unexplainably becomes his biggest hit ever (making mentions on Entertainment Weekly and others) but it's not Dr. Demento as believed. It's actually a short-lived family show based on the real-life family of the Braden family that briefly owned what is now the North County Times. The title? "Eight is Enough," now on its own at eightisenough.com (since 1999)

1998: D.T. gets his first domain: davesfunstuff.com, and moves his website stuff from the free domain to the website.

1999: D.T. begins downloading mp3s of Dr. Demento on a few pirate websites so he doesn't have to fight for bandwidth on crowded servers on radio stations carrying his show. Also: D.T. begins a weekly radio news blog, and drops the lousy Pac Bell phone service for Cox Digital Telephone.

2000: D.T. ditches his Sony computer in favor of an HP and begins releasing his own music on homemade CD-Rs. Also: launches his own radio station now known as dfsxradio.com

2001: D.T.'s favorite TV shows: Futurama, South Park, Simpsons, King of the Hill, The Weakest Link, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Who said there was a drought in TV quality?

2002: D.T. ditches CTS Net for broadband so he can download entire Dr. Demento show MP3s in 30 minutes instead of 10 hours per show. Also: D.T. launches davesdatebook.com and moves his celebrity birthdays there.

2003: D.T. launches sandiegoradionews.com and moves his daily radio news blog there. Also, D.T. begins hosting a weekly radio show called "I Still Get Demented", named after the KCBQ radio show "I Still Q in My Car," so this name is a tribute to the hosts John Fox and the late Phil Flowers.

2004: D.T. launches dfsxradio.com and moves his radio station website there.

2005: D.T. begins a weekly Top 20 funny music countdown radio show.