The Wires (Jan 3, 2008)

Radio Daily News: RadioDailyNews.com has named "The fired and laid-off employees of Clear Channel, CBS Radio, Citadel, Emmis, Cumulus and other large, medium and small market radio stations who have devoted their immense talents to broadcasting" as the recipients of the "2008 Radio Persons of the Year" award

Crash in 2010? Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) founder Pat Robertson said Wednesday that 2008 will be a year of violence worldwide, oil will reach $150 a barrel and a recession in the United States, followed by a major stock-market crash by 2010 (editor: yeah, I know why. It's those gays that his religion is opposed to, right?)

Inside Music Media: From Jerry Del Colliano -- Question: How many lawyers does it take to screw up the record industry? Answer: As many as you can pay. And there are a lot of record execs who agree with me. There is no hope to save the record business

Stacy Taylor Added To San Diego 1700 Lineup. Former KLSD morning host Stacy Taylor joins crosstown XEPE-AM 1700 AM for 4-7pm starting Thursday. Taylor, who is a familiar voice in the market from his years at Talk KSDO 1130, KOGO 600, and KFMH 760, replaces financial programming and an hour of Michael Reagan's syndicated show in the slot.

SD City Beat: The life and times of well-traveled San Diego radio host Stacy Taylor by David Rolland.

Randy Dotinga's 2007 Radio in Review

The Wires (Jan 2, 2008)

Happy Hare: "The Immigrant issue is ripe for show boating by pols and talkers. Both are playing to their constituencies, They each have a reason for keeping the issue alive. by coming up with extreme solutions. It makes ratings for the talkers, and keeps the money coming in to the Washington coffers, but, the answer has always been there." His expressive eyes. were staring into mine, like a fighter in a stare-down with his opponent before the opening bell. "Okay," he said in his radio voice. "Tell us." "First off,"I said, "Find out who and where the illegals are, and give them biometric I.D. cards"

The Wires (Jan 1, 2008)

Inside Music Media: From Jerry Del Colliano -- This has been a horrific holiday season for radio people in terms of pink slips, wrecked careers, disappointed hopes and even unemployment while fighting illnesses. I will not forget the fine people who are the backbone of the radio industry even if the consolidators can dismiss them so easily. When I attended Temple University in Philadelphia, one of my wonderful professors -- Lew Klein -- the American Bandstand and Philadelphia television executive told my freshman class that if you haven't been fired five times in your career, you're not in broadcasting. What an eye-opener for a young man getting ready to learn his trade

Kurt Hanson: An increasing number of online media users adding their own content to the Web consider themselves "broadcasters", just one of the findings in a new "Media Democracy" study conducted by Deloitte.

Radio Ink: iBiquity Asks FCC To Require HD In Satellite Receivers. In a letter to the FCC recapping an earlier meeting, iBiquity has asked the commission to require a merged XM and Sirius to include HD Radio technology in all satellite radio receivers.

Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use. Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing. Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer. The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings. "I couldn't believe it when I read that," says Ray Beckerman, a New York lawyer who represents six clients who have been sued by the RIAA. "The basic principle in the law is that you have to distribute actual physical copies to be guilty of violating copyright. But recently, the industry has been going around saying that even a personal copy on your computer is a violation." RIAA's hard-line position seems clear. Its Web site says: "If you make unauthorized copies of copyrighted music recordings, you're stealing. You're breaking the law and you could be held legally liable for thousands of dollars in damages." Read the whole article at the link.