The Wires (Nov 15, 2008)

Cnet: Should Sirius XM dump Howard Stern and other prominent radio personalities and stick to music? Should Sirius XM call it a day and try to sell its operation to the highest bidder? Or should Sirius XM forge ahead with its current strategy and hope against hope that everything will be OK? To answer those questions won't be easy.

Daily Breeze: Now is the time for radio to do great things. Unfortunately, it won't come from the big guns such as CBS and Clear Channel. It will come from the independents and the smaller groups. So I reissue this challenge to every programmer and owner in the country: Give us a reason to tune in. Make radio fun again. If you build it, they will listen, and the ad revenue will come.

Inside Music Media: So, here it is -- the promotion that radio should do (and do fast, before a competitor does it). Giveaway jobs on the air. That's right -- nothing is more valuable today than employment (unfortunately, we know that all too well in the radio business).

Jacobs Media: Wanna hear the new Springsteen song, "Workin' on a Dream?" Don't turn on MTV. Or iTunes or Sirius or even the new Guitar Hero. And don't listen to it on your favorite Classic Rock station because it won't be there either. You'll hear it at halftime on Sunday night's NFL game between the Cowboys and the Redskins. It's yet another sign that the new music exposure platform has totally shattered. Your chances of hearing new music outside of traditional broadcast radio stations continue to grow.

KPRI/San Diego afternoon driver Oz Medina takes over the MD chair. He’ll take music calls Thursdays from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

The Wires (Nov 13, 2008)

Randy Dotinga: Excerpt: "Satellite radio companies XM and Sirius may merge their channels this week. Stay tuned to next week's column for more." Dear Mr. Dotinga. Next week, yesterday's news about the new XM lineup will be a week old. People are going to the Internet to xmradio.com's website to see the complete lineup. You might want to select a different topic.

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Motley Fool: A feeling of pleasant surprise turned to horror this morning after I started up my XM-subscribed car. At first, I was greeted with some of my favorite Sirius music channels, like 1st Wave, on the air. Then I discovered that most of my favorite XM channels were gone. What the --.

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Karel Fired For Expletetive Tirade (Nov 12, 2008)

Karel had been working weekends and weeknight fill-ins for the station. On November 2nd, during an ABC News report, Karel was heard exclaming an expletetivie-filled tirade saying "f--k G--d--- JOE the G--d--- motherf---ing PLUMBER! I want motherf---ing JOE THE PLUMBER dead."

Karel was suspended after the incident, and was fired a week later.

The Wires (Nov 12, 2008)

Rockline is resurrected. One of rock radio's most enduring brands is being reborn in a twice-a-week, 90-minute show hosted by veteran Rockline personality Bob Coburn. More performances are planned when Dial Global re-launches the show in January.

Inside Music Media: LA Radio will do under $1 billion for the first time since 2002. Radio stocks are worth pennies. Audiences decline even though loyalists whip out studies that show how many hours a day people listen. Radio lost the next generation. Need I go through this again?

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4. Susan Lucci Pinkslipped by Voters at Dancing With The Stars.

3. Sarah Palin Not Going To Be Vice President? You Betcha!

2. Chargers Beat a 1-7 Team. Big Freakin' Deal!

1. Obama Wins. Let The Trickle Up Economy Begin!

The Wires (Nov 11, 2008)

Inside Music Media: Record labels are going to go down with declining sales in Compact Discs while downloads will never make up the loss of revenue. Thus, the present conundrum. So, in response to their dilemma, the labels are doing what ever red-blooded American business would do -- cutback. On staff. On music discovery. On innovation.

Sirius XM is a billion dollars in debt. Neither company by itself or as a combo has made a penny since each were launched in 2001. A new lineup premieres on Wednesday with not much hope that it will ever get out of debt with the current model of servicing that it has. Many similar channels will be merged into one. SDRN won't speculate prematurely, but whatever lineup is released on Wednesday will upset people no matter what.