Meet Alyssa Milano (Nov 22, 2008)

Meet her and receive a free autographed gift from Alyssa.

Alyssa was recently on XTRA Sports 1360 to plug her Touch line of women's sportswear.

The Wires (Nov 22, 2008)

TV Tech: Montana Station Completes Analog Shutoff, Offers Lessons. KTVH in Helena, Mont., completed its digital transition at noon Nov. 10, shutting off its analog transmitter and going all-digital.

TV Tech: Broadcasters: Cablers Need to Justify Degradation of HD Signals. The broadcasters say there’s no system in place to certify that the cable systems fit the criteria for the HD carriage exemption.

TV Tech: FCC Launches Web Page for Hawaii’s Early Transition. The full-power analog signals of Hawaii’s broadcasters will shut off at noon on Jan. 15, 2009.

TV Tech: MLB Network Swings Globally With Intelsat. MLB Network will launch in about 50 million cable and satellite homes in the United States on Jan. 1.

Radio World: IBOC Critic Opposes Power Boost. Damage to the FM service seems 'irrefutable,' McLarnon tells the commission

TV Tech: Survey: HD Now in Third of U.S. Homes. The new penetration figures represent about twice as many HD households in the nation as two years ago.

Inside Music Media: Take radio, their leaders will assassinate the character of anyone who dares to say that terrestrial radio is on the decline. After all, it's just a glitch. The Internet is a mirage. There's a recession -- that's it. We beat the age of television and we can beat the Internet, too -- damn it! Unfortunately, none of them -- that's spelled none -- have built a bridge to new and generational media, the kind that is taking the world by storm. Instead, it's towers and transmitters.

The Wires (Nov 21, 2008)

For the fourth year in a row, The Bob & Tom Show joins forces with the USO to provide deployed service members with much deserved treats this holiday season. Since 2005, The Bob & Tom Show has raised over $580,000 and sponsored more than 23,200 care packages.

Here is the new FM 94/9 lineup: 5:30a-9a -- HANSEN & TOMMY; 9-10a -- TOMMY (music hour); 10a-3p -- HILARY ; 3-8p -- HALLORAN; 8-9p -- GARETT'S 8 O'CLOCK ALBUMS; 9p-2a -- BIG SONIC CHILL WITH AMANDA. Former night-timer BOOMER shifts to part-time/swing. She will do SATURDAY and SUNDAY afternoons.

Bloodhounds Coming to San Diego (Midnight Nov 20, 2008)

Annalisa Berns with Lost Pet Detection and her bloodhounds will arrive at The home of Linda Goodman And Tamara Ames and begin their search. The hounds will start searching from 4674 56th Street [this] morning at 9am ~ Thursday, Nov 20.

Lexy's owners have taken this drastic step after all normal methods of searching failed. There were hours of walks calling for her, flyers every where , a lost pet hotline, internet listing , visiting every emergency center, vet office, and pet shelters all to no avail.

Lexy is still missing.

The three year old puppy and her twin sister got out of a gate left open by a real estate agent. (one of the dangers of lock boxes..)

Now the twin is not doing well and there is a chance they could loose both pets if they cannot find and bring Lexy home.

Lost Pet Detection has found 17 out of 19 lost pets since September Lexy's owners are hoping she will be number 18.

There will be a group of 15 to 18 to help in this effort , the media is welcome to cover , Annalisa will make her self available for interviews.

http://www.lostpetdetection.com

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/laf/924424774.html

It's The Last Week of Thanksgiving Season (Nov 20, 2008)

What's that? Radio and TV stations are advertising Christmas? Whoops. Wrong season. Their bad. Must tune out all Christmas-themed ads until after next Thursday. After all, it's Thanksgiving season, not Christmas season.

The Wires (Nov 20, 2008)

Randy Dotinga: GOP Fears the Fairness Doctrine

Crain's New York: PC Magazine shifts to digital-only publication. PC Magazine will go the way of the Christian Science Monitor and assorted teen magazines and become a digital-only publication, parent company Ziff Davis Media announced Wednesday. The print version of the monthly will come to an end with the January issue. In addition, PCMag Network, the online home of the publication, will be renamed PCMag Digital Network. Seven employees of the magazine will lose their jobs.

Gasoline Below $2 a Gallon! (Nov 19, 2008)

A gas station on the corner of Lake Murray Blvd. and San Carlos Dr. is now selling unleaded regular gas for $1.99 a gallon.

So is another gas station on the corner of Lake Murray Blvd. and Baltimore Dr.

So are a few stations in El Cajon, Chula Vista, and other cities.

Check out the website sandiegogasprices.com for the complete list.

The most expensive ones to avoid: a noname gas station on the corner of Fletcher Parkway and Garfield is selling regular unleaded for $2.89 for no valid reason other than to gouge you of your hard earned money. Are they trying to keep their prices high so that they could help fund a new name for the station?

Also to avoid: Valero at 400 Orange Ave and 4th St. in Coronado for $2.99 a gallon for unleaded regular.

Also avoid Chevron at 1575 Garnet Ave and Ingram St. where it sells for $3.08.

If you miss summer, go to the most expensive gas station in San Diego. The loser? Arco at 779 W. San Ysidro Blvd. and Sunset Ln. where gas is selling for $3.89 a gallon for unleaded regular!

Those are the prices as of November 18.

Question (Nov 19, 2008)

Steve Yuhas Takes On Scameras in El Cajon (Nov 19, 2008)

From Steveyuhas.com: We are asked by a caller: why all the cameras in El Cajon? So we try to get the mayor on the program "too busy" same thing for EVERY member of the city council AND the City Manageress. So the question is what are all the camers for and where are they? Until we do get the answer from the COWARDLY MAYOR OF EL CAJON, though, we need your help - WHERE ARE THE CAMERAS IN EL CAJON? AND tell Mayor MARK "COWARD" LEWIS and City Councilmen: JILLIAN HANSON-COX, GARY KENDRICK, BOB McCLELLAN & DICK RAMOS that you want them on the show. You can contact them at city hall - but next will come their home and cell phone numbers so you can ask them yourselves.

Also - where are the cameras? Email me at steve@steveyuhas.com to let me know and we'll start the mapping so the people know exactly where they are. Eventually, public laws will force El Cajon to tell us about the cameras so why hide behind "being busy?" Give me the address of the cameras you knwo of - if you have it, but cross streets are find and a photo would be great! Eventually we will fill in a page with the cameras so you can avoid them.

Check out the map here

Soon we will know where all of the cameras of El Cajon, CA are - until then - email their location to me at steve@steveyuhas.com and we'll get them up with the address/cross streets and pictures of them so you know what to look for. When the cowardly mayor Mark Lewis comes on to explain why there are so many cameras in this high taxing non-responsive to the electorate city - we'll consider ending letting people know where they are.

Listen to Steve's show Sundays 5-7pm on KOGO 600.

The Wires (Nov 19, 2008)

Inside Music Media: It's not that there aren't critics -- plenty of them -- embedded deep into the big four record labels and almost every major broadcast group. I know plenty of them. But, they have no power and they're walking a fine line every time they oppose the increasingly unilateral approach media executives take to running their businesses. Still, I can't get it out my mind - a team of rivals. What if?

Download.com: Free Sound Recorder does exactly as it sounds--it is an easy-to-use software program that lets you record any sounds from your sound card and save the recording directly into MP3, WMA or WAV files. Free Sound Recorder is a perfect audio recorder to record your own voice, music or any other sound by working directly with your sound card.

The Wires (Happy 80th Birthday Mickey Mouse! Nov 18, 2008)

Yes, there are better publications than the San Diego Union-Tribune!

Taylor on Radio-Info: The micro-niche formats are mostly gone from Sirius XM’s new lineup. That’s the complaint of the Washington Post’s Marc Fisher, who’s spot-on in observing that the new mass appeal-focused direction is a 180 degree flip from former XM strategist Lee Abrams’ vision of a satellite service that would grow by offering some highly-specialized formats - stuff that no viable commercial station ever could. Fisher misses faves like XM’s fusion/acid jazz “Beyond Jazz”, the “free-form eclectic” Fine Tuning, the choral/vocal “Vox”, and 70s/80s dance-track “Chrome.” I’d say that part of that is probably because Sirius needed the sheer channel capacity, to offer its “best of Sirius” menu to XM subscribers for that extra $4 a month. Another thing that’s been thinned out – just as the Radio-Info boards suggested a couple of week ago – is the roster of Spanish language formats. That’s shrunk from four to just one. Lots of Abrams’ fair-haired-child formats (Lucy, Fred, Ethel) are gone, but Sirius XM’s Scott Greenstein tells Fisher that XM listeners can now hear the all-Springsteen and all-Grateful Dead channels produced by Sirius. Greenstein says “I like to gear everything to mainstream America” – which isn’t all of Lee Abrams’ America. Fisher says “If a service with more than 150 channels offers 20 channels of rock, yet can’t find room for so many of the culture’s other forms of music, it may have lost its claim to the many niches that make up American eclecticism.” My guess – that’s perfectly okay with Sirius XM.

Chicago Tribune: Sirius, XM hear a lot of static for merging their lineups - The need to reinvent business models and make do with less in the media industry has brought a lot of abrupt change in a short span, upsetting consumers who inevitably predict that these actions hasten, rather than forestall, demise. That is the price to be paid for having developed a dedicated customer base in the first place. The media can't afford to lose them, but it can't afford to please them all either

Gary Lycan: Orange County was once the home to a dozen or so commercial radio stations – KWIZ AM & FM, KEZY, KORG, KOCM, KYMS, and KIK-FM, to name a few. Today, these English language personality music stations are history. They relocated outside the O.C. or adopted foreign language formats.

From FMQB: Modern Rock KJEE/Santa Barbara has been off the air since Friday morning, thanks to the devastating fires in California. The station's transmitter was severely damaged by fire, which also affected other stations in Santa Barbara, including News/Jazz KCLU-AM.

Top 5 Headlines Of The Week (Nov 10-16, 2008)

5. Chargers Lose. Go 4-6.

4. XM Introduces New Channels, Drops Channels, Watches Some Subscribers Drop XM.

3. No Number 3. D.T. Still Wating For Government Bailout.

2. Hannah Montana Section Launced on SDRN. We Don't Know Why.

1. Could Anyone Tell Mother F--kin Nature That Summer Is Way Over!!!