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Hacksaw To Return on San Diego Airwaves (Dec 24, 2005)XTRA Mainstay Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton is returning to San Diego radio.Come Monday January 2, 2006, Hacksaw will be heard on KOGO 600 AM weekday mornings at 6:35am with a feature titled "One Man's Opinion." He will also be doing another feature, "Hacksaw's Not Headlines" weekdays at 8:15am during the First News block, 12:32pm after the first half hour of Mark Larson's show, and three times at 3:32pm, 4:32pm, and 5:32pm during the Roger Hedgecock show. Hamilton will also be hosting a two-hour sports call-in talk show Sunday afternoons from 4-6 p.m. before Steve Yuhas' live one-hour show. "Lee is a perfect fit for KOGO," said program director Cliff Albert. "Hacksaw is well known in San Diego and the No. 1 guy when it comes to sports news." Hamilton will continue to be heard on "XTRA Sports" KLAC 570 in Los Angeles. KLAC and KOGO are Clear Channel owned and operated radio stations in Los Angeles and San Diego respectively. The Wires (Dec 24, 2005)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.John Maffei: MNF Ready to Turn Out The Lights More than 4.4 million video streams were served up to Howard Stern fans who watched the Yahoo! broadcast of Stern's last day on terrestrial radio on December 16. Yahoo! also claims another 214,000 users simultaneously viewed its broadcast of the festivities honoring the self-proclaimed King Of All Media. SBS Licenses Renewed, But $20,000 EEO Penalty Levied Phoenix gets its own talk/rock "Free FM" January 3 - as CBS blows up mod rocker "Zone" KZON (101.5). CBS had already announced Adam Carolla as the replacement for Howard Stern - now he'll be joined by "Frosty, Heidi & Frank", Westwood's Tom Leykis and (starting January 20) Premiere's Phil Hendrie. Like other "Free FM" conversions - KZON will still feature alternative rock (including 80s alt-gold) at night and on weekends. Sirius is selling out of radio receivers in some markets. Banc of America Securities analyst Jonathan Jacoby says "Stern surge sells out some Sirius products" - though he still prefers XM to Sirius, short-term. He says "Sirius valuation is overextended, likely due to the Howard Stern hype." Comedy Holiday Programming Note for DFSX (Dec 24-25, 2005)This weekend, dfsxradio will be featureing six episodes of the "DFSXmas" ISGD specials all day from 5am Dec 24 through 11pm Dec 25.In honor of Festivus Day, dfsxradio won't be airing any holiday music so you can air your grievances and have feats of strength without any distractions from holiday music.
KOGO Christmas Eve Programming (Dec 24, 2005)Listen to KOGO 600's 24 hours of an "American Christmas with Mannheim Steamroller" from Noon Christmas Eve to Noon Christmas Day followed by the San Diego radio tradition, "The Bethlehem Report", Noon to 1pm on Christmas Day as the KOGO news team tells the story of the first Christmas.
FM 94/9 Holiday Programming Guide (Dec 25-Jan 1)Christmas Day:Noon-2pm - Coldplay Special 2pm-4pm - Rancid presents Radio Clash 4pm-5pm - Oasis in-studio with Halloran 5pm-6pm - Robert Plant in-studio with Halloran 6pm-8pm - Nine Inch Nails Coup d'etat New Year's Eve 8pm - Matisyahu LIVE from the Belly Up Solana Beach New Year's Day 1am? (after Matisyahu) - Swami's New Year's Special 6pm-8pm - FTP New Year's Special
12 Days of Chrismtas Now on Q1520 (thru Dec 25, 2005)
WQMA 1520 in the Delta Valley has begun their "12 Days of Christmas" series of specials
on their station on December 14th, and my special called "Christmas Fun 101" will be featured
Friday night from 3-10pm Pacific Time (times on their website are Central time).
Some of their upcoming Christmas-themed specials including (times are Pacific). Dec 17: Dr. Demento at 4am, Casey Kasem's Top 60 Christmas Songs Part One at 6am Dec 21: It's a Wonderful Life radio version at 7am, Miracle on 34th Street radio version at 8am. Dec 22: Steve and D.C. Christmas at 3am, Charley Pride Christmas Special 1pm. Dec 23: David Tanny's CF 101 at 3pm, Dr. Demento's 8 Hours of Christmas 2005 at 10pm (Xmas parts 1-3). Dec 24: Dr. Demento Xmas 2005 Part IV at 4am, AT40 with Casey Kasem Top 60 Christmas Songs Part 2 at 6am, American Gold With Dick Bartley Christmas Special at 9am, SuperGold With Mike Harvey Christmas Special at 1pm, American Top 10 Christmas Eve with Casey Kasem at 7pm. Dec 25: last day of Christmas specials. |