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The Wires (June 14, 2008)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.TV Tech: Lawmakers Focus on Cracks in Coupon Program. At a hearing on the DTV transition Tuesday—the fifth such hearing the panel has held in the 110th Congress—not a single representative used the words “train wreck” to describe the transition. TV Tech: DTV Switch Could Impact 34 Percent of U.S. Households. The research also revealed that 14 percent of primary residences in this country have at least one television receiver without a connection to cable, DBS or any other type of multichannel video program service. TV Tech: Broadcasters Interrupt Analog Signals to Warn Viewers of DTV Transition. This week two more broadcasters interrupted their analog signals to inform viewers of the impending end of full-power analog broadcasting. RW Online: FM IBOC Power Increase Sought. A group of major broadcasters and equipment manufacturers now has formally asked the Federal Communications Commission to approve increasing allowable FM IBOC digital operating power by up to 10 dB, from the current –20 dB to –10 dB. NAB Board: No TV spectrum for radio. The NAB Radio Board is opposing a proposal before the FCC that would transition the spectrum used for TV channels 5 and 6 to radio. Engineer John Mullaney is pushing the plan, saying one TV channel is capable of creating 30 additional FM stations. That could mean more than 2,000 new or improved FMs nationwide. Gary Lycan: We asked you to "Sound Off" last week and you did – 41 responses to date and the clear majority of them are detailed, passionate and very opinionated about what you like and dislike about local radio - Surprising to me: no comments on oldies KRTH/101.1 FM, which enjoys high ratings in Orange County. No remarks about KNX/1070 AM, only one e-mail on KFWB/980 AM and two on KROQ/106.7 FM, which also – according to the ratings – is popular in the O.C. Inside Music Media: Here’s how radio can make things better: 1. Hire more sales people. Revenues are down. Triple the sales staff. Pay attractive commission rates to avoid vacuum cleaner salesmen. And train them. 2. Make all morning shows local. 3. Put a personality afternoon drive show on the air. Listeners from the next generation say the number one way to even have a chance to get them to listen to a radio is to put morning show type personalities on at other times of the day. I know groups won’t do this because it will cost more money than hiring cheap talent, but it can help radio with available listeners. 4. Get into the podcasting business. Radio Ink: NBC News' Russert Dies At 58. June 13, 2008: NBC News Meet the Press host Tim Russert has died at age 58 of an apparent heart attack All Access reports that KBZT (FM 94/9)/SAN DIEGO announces AMANDA THORNE as the new late-night host of "BIG SONIC CHILL." The SUNDAY-FRIDAY show -- featuring down-tempo, chill-out music -- airs from 10p-2a. AMANDA replaces MIDORI, who exited two months ago. Condolences to family and friends of longtime sportscaster CHARLIE JONES, who died THURSDAY of a heart attack in LA JOLLA, CA at 77. He was four days shy of his 54th wedding anniversary. Last Minute Channel Changes: Read about last minute attempted TV channel shuffles in San Diego. RBR.com: Bills to grant an analog (NTSC) extension through Feb. 17, 2014, to U.S. TV stations within 50 miles of the Mexican border, have stalled in both the Senate and House. The Wires (June 13, 2008)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.Don Barrett Profiled: DON BARRETT, the Publisher of LARADIO.COM get a featured GRUB STREET interview this week. In it, writer MATTHEW WHITE writes, "LARADIO.COM is about ideas, concern and passion. The focus is radio in LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. The concern is for LOS ANGELES radio people -- 'LARPs.' The passion is for the work, world and lives of LARPs, past, present and future. The drive for an enduring record is rare, on or off the web." The Wires (June 12, 2008)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.Inside Music Media: From Jerry Del Colliano -- Radio people think that if you build it, they will listen. As I frequently point out, you have to take a closer look at the next generation and why they will reject radio -- even on an iPhone. The radio industry fails to grasp that this new generation does not listen to its entertainment the way older folks did. You may see a young person with an iPod glued to his or her person but they are not listening to continuous programming. In fact, they are the "program director" of their own devices and start, stop, advance or skip content as they please -- when they please The Wires (June 11, 2008)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.Happy Hare: The economy is choking up, and advertising dollars are drying up. The media is laying off valuable talent. The time has come to be creative, growing instead of shrinking. The goal: to create a transparent way to trace advertising dollars in a path that would directly connect the consumer to the advertiser and score big (read more - www.HappyHareOnline.com) Feedback: Union-Tribune Bias Towards High Home Prices (June 10, 2008)From Mel: Good riddance to the Union-Tribune. They've always treated the falling price of home issue as depressing when in fact it's the complete opposite. The real story that the U-T doesn't tell you is that with the prices of homes falling, it means that there's people like me who have good credit and work hard to earn a living who have been waiting for the home prices to go down for a long time, thus, the homes are becoming affordable again. That's the good news about the falling home prices; the only people that it's not good news for are for those who own the homes. That's the only bad news. The U-T doesn't understand that. They appeal to all of the greedy morons who drove up the prices of houses to sky high prices and put themselves into a position of having their homes forclosed upon. For the rest of us, now some more of us can afford a house. A house costing $300,000 is more affordable than a $500,000 house. Buy a house if you love it and can pay to upkeep it and plan to live in it for a long time, not turn it over in two years. The U-T always take the gloomy path when the news is actually good for us hard workers who have yet to afford a home in San Diego county. People who would rather flip homes are better off renting instead of buying with an adjustable loan that is likely to go up.Looking through the San Diego Union Tribune website, there's not much news compared to the headlines found on sandiegoradionews.com, and both sites are free. Business and entertainment are restricted to a few stories compared to what I can find on your website. So long, Union-Tribune. You're fired and are obsolete. The Wires (June 10, 2008)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.Inside Music Media: From Jerry Del Colliano -- To Fix Radio, Fire the Boss - Tribune owner Sam Zell has declared newspapers dead. In fact he reportedly memoed Tribune staffers recently "What has become clear as we have gotten intimately familiar with the business is that the model for newspapers no longer works". So Zell’s COO, Randy Michaels, is looking to apply the now too familiar tactics that radio has used to shoot itself in the foot. Cutbacks. Fewer employees. Fewer news pages LA Times: From LA Times Editorial -- Free wireless Internet service is such a compelling idea, even waves of failure can't seem to kill it. The latest proposal comes from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin, who wants to auction off a band of airwaves with a couple of potentially strangling strings attached: The winner must use part of the band to provide Internet access at no charge, and traffic on the free service must be filtered to block pornography SOSD: Supercomputer in zone of its own. Calculation speed: 1 quadrillion/second. A U.S. military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. Top 5 Headlines Of The Week (Jun 2-8, 2008)5. Still No News On Where The CW Will Be Seen in August.4. Pirate 93.7 Returns To The Airwaves. 3. Radio Losing Ground To Computer and Music File Players For Teenagers. 2. Obama Finally Declared Democratic Presidential Nominee. 1. Padres Win Five in a Row! |