A Dream Come True! (Feb 18, 2006)

Get ready to make your dreams come true with KyXy’s Dream Kitchen Makeover Contest from Remodel Works Bath & Kitchen, remodeling San Diego for more than 20 years. An incredible $41,000 kitchen remodel including: countertops, cabinets, tile flooring, and yes...they're even throwing in the kitchen sink!

Listen weekday mornings starting Monday (1/30) as Sonny & Susan announce each day’s first Dream Kitchen Makeover Song at 6:10, 7:10 and 8:10. There will be 3 chances to win every weekday between 9am and 7pm. Just be the 9th caller at 1-888-560-9650 when the designated songs play to WIN $100 CASH and automatically qualify to WIN the Dream Kitchen Makeover!

Be sure to leave your calendar open on Saturday, March 4th…that’s when your Dream Kitchen could become a reality, as all of our qualifiers gather at Remodel Works Bath & Kitchen in Poway for the big giveaway event. So keep dreaming and start LISTENING to Soft Rock KyXy 96.5 FM for your chance to win a dream kitchen and $100 CASH!

Cheney's Got a Gun! (Feb 18, 2006)

"Cheney's Got a Gun" has been blanketing the airwaves coast to coast and is being downloaded around the world! Now, thanks to our good friends at Tooned In, we've produced the video! Help us spread it like a virus...

Click HERE to download!

The Wires (Feb 18, 2006)

pirate969.org: FRSD is changing locations. Free Radio San Diego is searching for a dedicated, land-owning person that would be interested in renting out a small space for our antenna. The FCC will give you shit (that's their job). They'll lie to you, they'll even threaten you. You must be willing and able to stand up against this and know that as a landlord your rights do protect you. For further information please email us at freeradiosandiego@gmail.com

RadioShack to close 400 to 700 stores

XM radio struggles with profits vs. growth

KFI Host Apologies to Muslims

Fox's Idol Crushes NBC's Olympics

Sirius, Fox News set new satellite radio pact

Toshiba to boost HD-DVD (Reuters)

Thursday: CBS and ABC Beat Olypics 8-9pm! Has NBC paid too much to show the games from Turin?

From insideradio: Should groups be able to own up to 12 stations in a market? (editor: HELL NO!) That's what Rep. Fred Upton tells the FCC - and he promises to mark up a new Telecom bill in his subcommittee in March.

UPTON TO MARTIN: RAISE RADIO OWNERSHIP LIMITS...Rep. Fred Upton., R- Mich., is believes the FCC should raise the radio ownership limits and allow owners to own more than eight stations in a market - starting with the 17 largest markets in the U.S. In a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, the chairman of the telecom and Internet subcommittee of the House Commerce Committee urged the agency to begin a rulemaking on the issue, saying the move would increase program diversity, make it easier for stations to experiment with new formats and enable stations to compete with new threats, such as iPods, Internet radio and satellite radio.

D.T. to End TV Watching in 2009! Looks like I'll have to live on VHS tapes of WKRP in Cincinnatti on my old analog set until I die. 2009 BECOMES LAW FOR ANALOG TV SHUTOFF. From sister publication TV Technology: President Bush has signed the budget reconciliation bill that sets Feb. 17, 2009 as the day analog television broadcast signals go away forever.

Sirius-ly: SIRIUS Satellite Radio today announced record fourth quarter and full-year 2005 financial and operating results. SIRIUS ended 2005 with 3,316,560 subscribers, reflecting a 190% increase in total subscribers for the year and record net subscriber additions of 2,173,302. For the fourth quarter, the company added 1,142,640 net subscribers, making SIRIUS the market share leader in terms of net satellite radio subscriber additions for the quarter. This was the best quarterly gain in the company’s history, and a 138% increase over net subscriber additions in the year-ago quarte

Universal: 'The Best Music Gets On The Air'. In an exclusive followup interview to his appearance on ABC's Primetime report "Payola: The Dirty Little Secret of the Music Business" last night, CKEY/Buffalo PD Dave Universal told R&R, "I went on the show for three reasons."

Sirius-ly: Fox News, Talk Channels Return To Sirius

ABC News Reports Payola On Primetime

ABC News Radio Payola story

The Wires (Feb 17, 2006)

XM Satellite Radio Loss Widens in 4Q

Bouncing the illegal broadcasters off the overcrowded airwaves...Is pirate radio a public nuisance linked to crime or breeding ground for talent?

American Idol Semifinialists Revealed...more people are talking about American Idol than about the Olympics, especially the 34-and-under crowd. Fox beats NBC when AI is on. The Grammys lost to AI. Is AI that popular?

NY Daily News: Assessing the status of satellite radio often can depend on how you look at the picture. For all the talk it has generated - both in general and by signing the likes of Howard Stern and Oprah Winfrey - satellite is a small slice of the radio pie. XM and Sirius combined have about 10 million subscribers, in a country with about 300 million conventional radios. Sirius Satellite Radio and rival XM Satellite Radio are writing a new chapter in the history of radio. But it’s not at all clear how this chapter will end

Newsday: Music lovers all have that moment - that instant when they hear a song and wonder, "How on Earth did he get a record deal?" Yeah, taste is subjective. And yes, one man's trash is another man's treasure. But there are some acts on major labels, some songs that become radio hits, that are so bad that only one cliche explains their existence: Money talks. New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer figured this out, announcing earlier this month that he has subpoenaed several radio conglomerates in his ongoing investigation of record companies paying radio stations to play their songs (read more - Glenn Gamboa-Newsday)

Marco Collins Live From SXSW. FINEST CITY BROADCASTING Alternative XTRA-F (91X)/SAN DIEGO MD/afternooner MARCO COLLINS is looking to set-up band interviews from SXSW for a live afternoon broadcast on THURSDAY, MARCH 16 and FRIDAY, MARCH 17 from AUSTIN. If you want to set-up live band interviews with MARCO, get in touch with him at (858) 499-1708 or marco@91x.com.

XHUAA-TD 20 On The Air (Feb 16, 2006)

"Our sister station, XHUAA UHF 57 in Tijuana, just put on the air yesterday a digital outlet on UHF 20. I don't have all of the details yet, but I see that it is duplicating the analog signal.

"Yes, I have mentioned the stretch and the "HDTV" logo to the engineer in charge.

"This is the first Spanish language digital TV station serving San Diego-Tijuana, and one of the first in Mexico. XHUAA is a satellite of pioneer TV station XEW in Mexico City and famous for its Telenovelas."

New LPFM on the Air? (Feb 16, 2006)

KHHS-LP 107.5 Horizon Christian Fellowship San Diego CA * (religious)

This station will be hard to get because it's on the same FM frequency as Univision's K-Love 107.5 from Los Angeles.

In a related story, the website for KRLY-LP, Lite 107.9, a LPFM from Alpine, is found at http://www.lite1079fm.com/. All two watts of it are streaming on the Internet.

The Wires (Feb 16, 2006)

Clearchannel.com: Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (NYSE: CCU) today announced that Randall T. Mays has been named President, effective immediately. He will also retain his chief financial officer responsibilities. Randall Mays has served as a director of the company since April 1999 and was most recently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mark P. Mays remains Chief Executive Officer. “Randall has demonstrated outstanding operational and financial acumen in both his leadership of strategic initiatives as well as the company’s realignment,” said L. Lowry Mays, Chairman of the Board. “His commitment to quality, combined with his focus on creating shareholder value, can now be more broadly applied across the company.”

'Idol' Trounces Olympics in Ratings War

Sirius Adds ESPN Deportes Radio. ESPN and SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced that ESPN Deportes Radio, the new 24-hour Spanish-language sports radio network, is now available to SIRIUS subscribers on channel 181

Rolling Stone: As iPods, satellite radio and other new media increasingly compete for consumers' ears, the AM-FM radio establishment has launched a counterattack: digital radio. "This is our way of claiming a stake in the digital ground and saying, 'You don't need to go anywhere else,'" says HD Radio Alliance CEO Peter Ferrara. "We can give you the same or better opportunities for entertainment and information than any device."

Ellis Booker: Podcasting, satellite radio and the flow of ad dollars to the Web are among the pressures affecting radio today. Radio advertising was essentially flat last year compared with 2004, according to the Radio Advertising Bureau. Combined spot and nonspot radio ad spending totaled $21.50 billion last year, compared with $21.40 billion in 2004. Network revenue dropped to $1 billion, from $1.50 billion. One reason for the lackluster results is that 14% of the radio industry's billings come from the automotive industry, whose advertising spending is in flux as Detroit shifts more of its ad dollars to the Web

From Happy Hare: Everything I needed to know about radio, I learned at KGBC in Galveston. As a lad in1946, isolated from the world on a slow moving Merchant Marine tanker, I had plenty of time to think about choosing a career path that didn’t involve cleaning bilges. Radio kept pecking at my cerebrum until I determined to go to KGBC and introduce myself when I returned from a long voyage in the Pacific. The day after my return, I went to KGBC, and sought out Orland O.Dodson, the news editor. I had often heard him, and admired his open, clear style of reporting.. After a brief introduction, I straightaway told him that, because of him, I wanted to be a newsman.

Houston Chronicle: Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other) may be the first gay cowboy song by a major recording artist. The song, which became available exclusively through iTunes Tuesday, features choppy Tex-Mex style guitar runs and Willie Nelson's deadpan delivery of lines like, "What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?" and "Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out"

Randy Dotinga: Storytelling project preserves the present.