Update: Laura Ingraham (Sep 13, 2008)

New Schedule for KCBQ on Monday:

6am: Mike Gallagher
9am: Dennis Prager:
NOON: Michael Medved
3pm: Hugh Hewitt
6pm: Market Wrap with Moe Ansari
7pm: KCBQ Specials
8pm: Mike Gallagher.
9pm: KCBQ Specials
11pm: American Advisor
11:30pm: KCBQ Specials
MID: Advice Line
2am: Market Wrap (repeat)
3am: Bill Bennett's Morning in America.

Alyssa Milano's Latest Blog (Sep 13, 2008)

Soap and Talk Beats U.S. Open (Sep 13, 2008)

John Maffei, North County Times: Guiding Light or the U.S. Open? KFMB aired the soap and the talk shows instead of the U.S. Open. Bad call. Channel 8 will re-air the U.S. Open men's final at 2:07 a.m. Saturday. Meanwhile, the 1360 lineup without Lee Hacksaw Hamilton is Dave Palet-Jeff Dotseth from 6-10 a.m., Craig Elsten from 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Josh Rosenberg from 1-3 p.m. and Chris Ello moving into Hamilton's 3-7 p.m. slot. Chris Carmichael on radio-info.com reports from an unidentified source that Lee Hacksaw Hamilton will NOT be on the new satellite radio channel as listed on Maffei's column (which was printed past the deadline so he couldn't make the change in time). Sirius officials hope that a deal can be worked out, however.

Sign On San Diego Sports: Jay Posner: KFMB boss hit by outrage over Open. As director of programming for KFMB, Barry Smith was at the maelstrom of the week's most controversial decision – not to televise Monday's men's final of the U.S. Open. CBS made the telecast available to all its affiliates, and KFMB was one of a handful not to carry it. And, it's not as if KFMB has a sterling record when it comes to programming decisions. There have been too many college basketball games joined in progress and too many questionable decisions made on NFL telecasts for the station to get the benefit of the doubt from many viewers. Read the rest at Posner's column.

Analysis: Perhaps CBS TV should have shopped the U.S. Open for Monday afternoon to XETV or KUSI, which could have been possible late choices for the situation. Why CBS is sticking with the low-rated Guiding Light escapes logic. It should have been cancelled in the past year.

The Wires (Sep 13, 2008)

Radio-Info.com Westwood's "re-engineering" at Metro will close ops centers, cut 15% of staff. CEO Tom Beusse's promised revamp of the Metro Networks division focuses on consolidation - 60 operations centers shrinking to 13 "regional hubs" - and more reliance on digital technology. Westwood expects cost savings of $25-30 million a year, partly from cutting 15% of existing staff. But it will take a re-structuring charge of at least $20 million in this quarter. More at Radio-Info.com.

Kurt Hanson: A new study finds that 67% of 18-64 year olds have heard of HD Radio, up from 38% in 2006. The study says this is "significant progress," but Kurt Hanson's RAIN Analysis views the finding in a somewhat different light...

Radio World: Two Long-Term AM Issues Teed Up at FCC? Outlook appears promising for action on translators and computer modeling

Radio World: More 'Digital' Stations Make August PPM 'Book'. Web streams count, and now more of them are showing up.

Radio World: Kurt Hanson Launches Slipstream Radio. Offers multichannel, 'personalizable' versions of your radio station online; company also inks deal with Triton.

ZD Net: The $2,000 build-it-yourself PC Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: This isn't just a high-end gaming machine. For a budget of $2,000 (plus change), you'll get a system that chews through any photo or video editing job you'll ever care to throw its way.

Inside Radio: Study: Most don't "touch that dial." A new American Media Services survey shows 52% of respondents keep listening when commercials air. Only 38% change stations and only 7% claiming they turn off the radio. But it doesn't stay off long. 45% turn it on right away. Another 41% are back listening within two minutes. Read the full story at InsideRadio.com.

"All Comedy Radio" - www.allcomedyradio.com - A unique and diverse format service is currently on HD-2 stations 24/7 in Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Denver, Kansas City, Memphis, New Orleans, Buffalo and others. For affiliate information for your HD-2 station contact: Al Perrotta at acrnews@mac.com

Sign on San Diego: AT&T rips Cox over access to broadcasts. Padres games unavailable, sparking complaint to FCC. AT&T filed a complaint with the FCC yesterday alleging that Cox Communications' exclusive broadcasts of Padres baseball games violate agency rules against unfair competition. AT&T, which offers the competing U-Verse alternative to cable, says the Federal Communications Commission classifies local sports as “must-have” content that cannot be withheld from competitors.

SOSD: 'The stakes are really high,' so 'SNL' dives right into the fray.

George Putnam Passes: George Putnam, the pioneer television news anchorman and conservative commentator whose distinctive stentorian voice was familiar to millions of Southern Californians during his heyday in the 1950s and '60s, died today (read more - Dennis McLellan - LA Times)

FMQB: Metallica Live Broadcast Sets Record. Metallica’s Death Magnetic is officially out today and is already a record setter in one aspect, setting a new bar for clearance levels of an FMQB Productions radio event

FMQB: L.A. Broadcaster Files Against Satellite Merger. Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters file the first petition for the FCC to reconsider the Sirius-XM merger.

FMQB: Westwood One Realigns Metro Networks.

FMQB: Senate Approves P2P Enforcement Bill. By a 14 to 4 vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill backed by the RIAA - the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act - that would give federal prosecutors the power to file civil lawsuits against file-sharers who violate copyright laws. The bill will create stricter IP laws and toughen civil and criminal laws against counterfeiting and piracy. The act also expands the power of the White House by creating an IP Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) position within the executive branch, and the IPEC will direct other agencies in a coordinated strategy to fight counterfeiting and piracy.

Radio Ink: George Putnam Passes. Legendary talk radio host and newscaster George Putnam (pictured) died Friday morning (Sept. 12) at the age of 94. The cause of death is believed to be a heart attack. While Putnam had been in and out of the hospital for the last few months he had still managed to provide reports to his long-running show "Talk Back."

All Access: KFRG Adds Los Angeles HD2. CBS RADIO Country KFRG/SAN BERNADINO-RIVERSIDE is now simulcasting on KLSX HD2/LOS ANGELES.

The Wires (Sep 12, 2008)

Laura Ingraham Shifts To New L.A. Affiliate. Talk Radio Network Enterprises' Laura Ingraham moves from KRLA in Los Angeles to KGIL. She will also appear on XESURF in Tijuana. Her show will airs from 6-9am starting September 16th. She also airs on KCBQ from 6-9am.

September 11, 2001...We Won't Forget!

The Wires (Sep 11, 2008)

Reuters: Sirius XM chief: regular radio "sucks" Mel Karmazin, trying to shore up Wall Street support for Sirius XM Radio, told analysts that regular radio "sucks" as an investment while the company he heads deserves more respect because of its growth prospects.

ZD Net: One Click App Killer. Terminate frozen programs easily.

ZD Net: Recover Files. Recover permanently deleted files from hard disks and removable media.

Inside Music Media: The relationship between radio and the record labels for a long time was a pretty damn good deal - for both. The stations got free programming, lots of prizes to give away and payola if they were into it (and some were over the decades of modern pop music). The labels got gazillions of dollars of free promotion, publicity and exposure and didn’t have to share a dime with the radio stations that made, broke and sustained their acts

Hear 2.0 For six bucks - half the price of just one month of satellite radio - Nullriver's "Tuner for iPhone" puts every radio station stream under the sun in your pocket and, potentially, wired to your car audio.

Sirius XM Radio named Steve Torre, formerly with 1010 WINS to be the Program Director for the Mad Dog Radio channel, launching this fall on SIRIUS and XM to oversee the programming and day-to-day operation of Mad Dog Radio, the new sports talk channel created and headlined by renowned sports talk personality Chris “Mad Dog” Russo

FMQB: Study: Boosting HD Radio Power Will Lead To FM Interference

FMQB: MySpace Music Set To Launch This Month?

Note to CBS Radio San Diego (Sep 10, 2008)

Santa Barbara KOs Tijuana Station (Sep 10, 2008)

The Wires (Sep 10, 2008)

Broadcasting Cable: Televisa Tests Mobile DTV. Mexican broadcaster Grupo Televisa has successfully tested a mobile digital TV (DTV) system in Mexico City using equipment from transmission supplier Harris and cellphone maker LG Electronics, Harris announced today.

Sirius XM sees $350 million loss. Although it'll close another year in the red, CEO Mel Karmazin says they've made "great strides" over the last six weeks integrating XM and Sirius. He says they're finding "significant cost savings" and the company now believes it will see $425 million in synergies. Sirius XM will begin marketing "Best of Both" programming packages next month. That's when it also begins offering FCC-mandated a la carte packages.

Radio-info.com reports that Sirius XM debuts a Sunday morning “Breakfast with the Beatles” this weekend, hosted by Beatles expert, rock musician and author Chris Carter. It appears this three-hour show will be on the legacy “Sirius” part of the merged Sirius XM, and not on the XM lineup – yet. The new “Breakfast with the Beatles” airs Sunday 9-noon Eastern on Sirius channel 25, the one identified with Steven Van Zandt and his “Underground Garage.” The current terrestrial “Breakfast with the Beatles” that Carter hosts for Citadel’s classic rock KLOS, Los Angeles (95.5) continues – and Sirius tells me that he’s rustling up a completely different “Breakfast” for satellite.

ZDNet: Facebook refuses to fix obvious security flaw.

ZDNet: Web worms squirm through Facebook, MySpace.

Bloomberg: Blank Screens Undermine $1.5 Billion U.S. Digital-TV Subsidy.

Jacobs Media: iPods are cool and everywhere. Sirius has their valued merger. Phones continue to become the portable devices of choice. So how does radio compete in this environment? Especially with rapidly falling revenue, rapidly rising layoffs, and marketing budgets that are barely adequate for furniture stores but not sufficient to compete with the big boys

NY Daily News: Howard Stern reportedly is helping to auction off the virginity of a San Diego woman trying to raise money for college.

Jimmy Rabbitt: This week in Rock 'n Roll History, George Harrison is found guilty of subconscious plagiarism of the song "He's So Fine" in writing his hit, "My Sweet Lord". In the ruling, the court accepted the possibility that Harrison had "subconsciously copied" the Chiffons' melody as the basis for his own song. Disputes over damages dragged on into the 1990s

The Wires (Sep 9, 2008)

Alley Insider: Online radio is still grasping for a way to make its burgeoning listener base pay off for investors. There is a simple yet counterintuitive method that could benefit the music industry, artists, the online radio networks, and listeners. The only problem is that it has long, unpleasant history behind it. We are talking about paid song inclusion, sometimes known as Payola.

Purdue University Chronicle: Ever think about why there is satellite radio? Besides improvements in technology, radio just doesn't cut it anymore. The 1980's song by the Buggles titled "Video Killed the Radio Star" should now be titled "Radio Killed the Radio Star." Every song is so overplayed that you can flip through three stations and hear different sections of the same song. Every station jumps on the bandwagon and plays the same popular songs into the ground. Maybe it's just the competition with the other stations that causes this. The pressure to play the here and now must be enormous, but I think they would have more competition if they played the older stuff that people hear and say,"I remember this song!" Why do stations insist on doing this?

Inside Music Media: I see podcasting in a different light. It’s not ready to replace radio although I believe it will be the new radio within the next ten years or so. Podcasting is not what a lot of radio broadcasters think it is - and I’m going to address my vision of it here this morning. Making podcasts make money will not be as easy as selling “commercial spots” as we do in radio. The podcasts "formats" will not resemble what we’re used to doing in radio, but rather, how we’d talk to people in a one-on-one fashion. (In radio, we’ve lost that lovin’ feeling for being a one-to-one medium)

Radio Ink: Scully, Dodgers Make It An Even 60. Vin Scully, who's already the longest-serving broadcaster with any Major League Baseball team, has signed up for his 60th year with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Didja Hear? (Sep 8, 2008)

On KOGO news breaks, the reporter said that the Chargers lost to the Panthers 25-24 during Steve Yuhas's show. KOGO's sister station KIOZ broadcasts the Charger games and the final was 26-24.

Blazin' 98.9 broadcast dead air late Sunday night. Not sure how long it lasted, but it was better than the format it's programming.

Website Worth (8pm, Sep 7, 2008)

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91x.com: Website Worth: $10,284.24. Daily Pageviews: 4,696.

kogo.com: Website Worth: $12,049.38 . Daily Pageviews: 5,502.

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Let's try my five domains:

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dfsxradio.com: Website Worth: $759.93. Daily Pageviews: 347.

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The battle of the demented websites:

themadmusicarchive.com: Website Worth: $11,501.88. Daily Pageviews: 5,252.

www.drdemento.com: Website Worth: $2,284.17. Daily Pageviews: 1,043.

dmdb.org: Website Worth: $3,011.25. Daily Pageviews: 1,375.

Website Worth (8pm, Sep 7, 2008)

X1fm.com = 778, X1fmradio.com = 538, X1TV.com = 202. Combined total = 1518 daily views.

Their data seems to be updated very infrequently.

Website Worth (8pm, Sep 6, 2008)

From Cubestat.com:

X1fm.com = 778, X1fmradio.com = 538, X1TV.com = 202. Combined total = 1518 daily views.

Top 5 Headlines Of The Week (Sep 1-7, 2008)

4. Somebody is finally smarter than a 5th Grader. She won $1,000,000.

3. Somebody finally won $1,000,000 on Deal or No Deal. You can stop watching the series now.

2. "Hacksaw" does nothing for XTRA after ten months, then exits.

1. NFL Football's Back! You bet!

Website Worth (10am, Sep 6, 2008)

X1FM.com: Website Worth: $1,703.82, Daily Pageviews: 778

Radio Nigel: Website Worth: $1,375.32, Daily Pageviews: 628

Sandiegoradionews.com: Website Worth: $516.84, Daily Pageviews: 236 (note: this website hung up in Netscape's browser).

Google.com: Website Worth: $1,204,500,000.00, Daily Pageviews: 550,000,000