The Wires (Aug 9, 2008)

Gary Lycan: When Rick Dees left KIIS-FM after 23 years, it was treated more like a farewell than a new beginning. Truth is, Dees is more active today than ever, and we're not just talking about his morning drive show on KMVN "Movin' 93.9 FM" + Salem-owned KRLA 870 AM found it was not immune to the economic struggles and had to let go several staffers, including Craig Edwards, program director, and Fran Tunno, copywriter and frequent "voice" for the station(read more - Gary Lycan - OC Register)

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FMQB: New Sirius XM Combo Radios Nine Months Away

The Wires (Aug 8, 2008)

Inside Radio: Lincoln Financial still plans to sell radio. CEO Dennis Glass says LF isn't "throwing in the towel" on radio, but plans to seek buyers for the 14 stations in Atlanta, Miami, San Diego and Denver stations that remain in its portfolio. He says "This would not be the time." One deal was already done at what Glass believes was an "appropriate" price - last year's $100 million sale of the Charlotte cluster to Greater Media.

Question: is at least CBS Radio's KSCF on the selling block?

Chargers Kick Off Their Exhibition Season Saturday (Aug 8, 2008)

Thanks to the blackout restriction, this game will be broadcasted live at 7:00pm on KFMB Channel 8.

This game will also be televised on KCBS channel 2 in Los Angeles (this is not a CBS game). For Spanish language viewers, the game will also be seen on XEWT 12 in Tijuana.

On the Chargers affilliate network, the game is being carried by KLAS in Las Vegas, KKFX in Santa Barbara, KGMB in Hawaii, KPSE in Palm Springs, KBAK in Bakersfield and KSWT in Yuma, Arizona and the Imperial Valley.

The next home game will be between the Chargers and Seattle Seahawks on Monday Night Football on ESPN on Aug. 25. That game may be televised on Channel 10 because it has the right to broadcast ESPN's football package whenever the Chargers are playing.

Update: KPBS's Channel 67 LPTV (Aug 7, 2008)

re: http://www.w9wi.com/tvdb/channels/38.htm, one of KPBS-TV's two low power translators in La Jolla has moved from channel 67 to channel 38. The calls for the translator are K67AM.

Featured Internet Radio Station: Gecko Rock

The Wires (Aug 7, 2008)

Roanoke Times: XM Radio has scheduled what it calls a celebration of the 1960s-era terrestrial behemoth, "one of the most successful and influential radio stations of the period," according to a news release. Check XM's '60s channel between 4 and 9 p.m. Friday to hear a slice of the WROV that was, with the Beatles, the Supremes and more

Randy Dotinga: Shake, rattle and radio.

Chris Departs X1FM (Aug 6, 2008)

States on their website, "X1FM Network salutes Mr. Chris Cantore for the time and awesome opportunity he gave us helping build awareness for our Network.

"X1FM Network Salutes The Chris Cantore Show. Everyone at X1FM Network wishes you the best. Rock On Chris!"

Union-Tribune Makes More Cuts (Aug 6, 2008)

First, they dropped the weekly "Mini Page" feature two weeks ago. That sucks. That's how I learned about the existance of Hannah Montana a year ago.

Now, as of this Sunday, there won't be any more weekly "TV Week" tabloid magazine. It's apparent that the Union-Tribune hasn't been able to figure out how to do a weekly TV listings magazine right, even calling the hours up to 8am in the morning "The Late Night" listings.

So, with that, there are no more weekly full-coverage TV listings pages in print, and no more reason to pick up the Sunday paper anymore.

Some years ago, back in circa 1992, I sometimes ventured up the I-5 and across the I-10 on a Sunday looking for local newspapers to purchase so I could see how the papers produced the weekly "TV Week" magazines. I used to pick up the Oceanside Blade-Citizen before it merged with the Escondido Times-Advocate to get two different TV magazines, I got the Orange County Register, the L.A. Times, newspapers in Long Beach, San Bernadino, Riverside, Pasadena, and other cities and compared and contrasted how the listings and production looked like. Now, with most newspapers doing away with the weekly TV listings, it looks like there's no place to get the local TV listings unless you get them on titantv.com or zap2it.com.

With newspapers loosing subscribers and many including myself getting the bulk of the news on the Internet, it's only a matter of time before the newspaper industry would have to eventually merge into a super regional paper like "USA Today" is a super national paper just to cut expenses as fewer and fewer paying customers pick up or subscribe to the local newspapers.

Jonas Brothers! (Aug 6, 2008)

The Wires (Aug 6, 2008)

Happy Hare: Red Buttons was right when he cupped his hand to his ear and declared “strange things are happening.” If he was right fifty years ago, think how right he is today. Let’s focus in on one thing that is so dynamic that anything I write here will be obsolete by next Friday. Until recently, we had all of the ingredients for bar code swiping by your cell phone, except one; the interface. That is bound to change. An interface between you and the advertiser would enable advertisers to put your bar code purchases into their system, creating a potentially massive new revenue stream. monetizing raggedy newspaper paper pages for the first time. The multi billion dollar market potential demands it. I wrote about this some months ago

Radio and Records reports that the two 93.5 frequencies in Los Angeles and Riverside counties will split up. KDAY 93.5 in Los Angeles will become "93.5 The Beat of L.A." and replace its direct urban format with an adult urban format on August 18th. KWIE 93.5 will end simulcasting KDAY's feed and will launch a hip gold-based format "93.5 The Flow of the Inland Empire".

Radio World: Pressure is mounting to reallocate TV Channels 5 & 6 for FM-like purposes

Broadcasting Cable: same here.

Taylor on Radio-Info Sez (Aug 5, 2008)

Does he know more than we do about this?

Free Radio San Diego's New Site? (Aug 5, 2008)

The Wires (Aug 5, 2008)

Happy Hare: Red Buttons was right when he cupped his hand to his ear and declared “strange things are happening.” If he was right fifty years ago, think how right he is today. Let’s focus in on one thing that is so dynamic that anything I write here will be obsolete by next Friday. Until recently, we had all of the ingredients for bar code swiping by your cell phone, except one; the interface. That is bound to change. An interface between you and the advertiser would enable advertisers to put your bar code purchases into their system, creating a potentially massive new revenue stream. monetizing raggedy newspaper paper pages for the first time. The multi billion dollar market potential demands it. I wrote about this some months ago.

Rumor: KYXY and KSCF For Sale? (Aug 4, 2008)

laradio.com: Format Changes In The Works? (Aug 4, 2008)

My speculation: KLSX "Free FM", the last of the CBS owned stations that still has the Free-FM handle, has seen better days with its FM talk radio format over the past 12 years, and this year is proving to be trying. Since Howard Stern went to satellite radio, the talk radio formats have been staggering and losing ground against their competetors. Adam Carolla isn't competetive. The Triplets may end up going back to the Mountain Time Zone, Danny Bonaduce is so rancid that it makes listening to KIIS-FM decent, Tom Leykis may be running out of time to help save the format, the weekend brokered shows don't do much if anything, etc. etc. KLSX did much better as a rock station when it started in 1986 and lasted until 1995. Could KLSX migrate into something like a mix of classic and new rock that really rocks, or would that end up being sold since CBS Radio already owns two TV stations and is over the combined TV/Radio station limit by one?

Weird Radio Dream (Aug 4, 2008)

Over the hill near the 125 freeway, Indie 103.1 from Santa Monica built a live music studio near Vons and it broadcasted live performances of live acts back to its Santa Monica studio.

Top 5 Headlines Of The Week (Jul 28-Aug 3, 2008)

4. Sirius and XM close the merger

3. KSWB becomes the Fox

2. XETV becomes the CW

1. The cross can stay on Mount Soledad