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The Wires (Jan 10, 2009)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.TV Tech: Unprepared Viewers, Converter Shortages Could Delay Transition. This week, it appears full power analog TV may not be ending so fast. TV Tech: Should the DTV Transition Be Delayed? Weigh in on the TV Technology forum E-Mail Check (Jan 9, 2009)Tested it. It works. I was expecting some e-mails today, but sometimes the Internet doesn't always work and deliver the e-mail on time. Does the Internet need federal bailout money or what?Bail Out The Failing Businesses Yourself (Jan 9, 2009)Want to help the economy, and you have money in your bank account? Spend it and buy something.Don't go to the Internet. Drive yourself to a store and buy something from a local dealer or salesrep. Give them money and you'll get a car or something else out of it in return. If you have a credit card, forget it for now unless you can pay it all off within the month.
Dance Mixes...90s Retro Style (Jan 9, 2009)It's just the way radio dance mix shows used to be: fun!Download the Eurodance mixes from B96 Chicago from circa November 1996 at these two locations while you can! http://www.mediafire.com/?hmyziqbmtyn http://www.mediafire.com/?kojltynjtww To Channel 933: this is what a dance mix show should sound like!
Disco Dancing on XM Saturday Night (Jan 10, 2009)On XM Channel 7:Disco Saturday Night with Joe Causi 6:00 PM to 12:00 AM (6 hrs) Join "Brooklyn's Own" Joe Causi, as he brings you the music when chrome was everywhere and you were dancin' under the strobe... It's the Disco sounds like only Joe can bring it to you... On XM Channel 8: Dancin' with Denny Terio 6:00 PM to 1:00 AM (7 hrs) You got the fever... and you'll get it again with DANCE FEVER host Denny Terrio's Saturday Night Dance Party on Sirius XM 80s on 8. Go back to the beats of the 80s with a party wherever your Sirius XM radio is!
KIFM CD Sampler Now on Sale (Jan 9, 2009)Our 2009 CD Sampler is on sale now at all San Diego Borders Books and Music Stores! Enjoy music by Richard Elliot, Rick Braun, Ingrid Michaelson, Mindi Abair and others! Net proceeds from the sale of our CD Sampler will benefit All That Jazz, a grant created to assist local public school music programs through the San Diego County Office of Education.
Pondering... (Jan 9, 2009)Why is there no TwiQuil medicine? There's Nyquil and Dayquil. What about medicine for twilights?Why can't Rubio's have a drive-through restaurant like McDonalds? Why can't the BCS select two teams that people care about?
Is This in the Future? (Jan 9, 2009)Clear Channel San Diego could consolidate all of their FM morning shows into one.In a cost-saving move, Clear Channel San Diego would combine all of the four morning shows into one, saving millions of dollars a year in salaries. The fifth one on 95.7 isn't well-known, so the entire team can be tossed. They would cherry-pick one member from each of the morning teams and form one team. The rest of the members would be let go as a cost-cutting move. So beginning soon, expect to hear the A.J., Jeff, Mikey, and Chainsaw show with just those four guys on 93.3, 94.1, 95.7, 101.5, and 105.3, all at the same time! Middays, the poster child of syndicated voice tracking, Ryan Seacrest, will be heard on all of the FM stations, but music respective to the five formats for the frequencies would play between Ryan chats. Afternoon drives would be entirely voice-tracked or jockless. Evenings until 11pm would be jockless. 11pm-5am, all of the FM staions would sign off because it saves money and every person by then would be watching TV, having sex, sleeping, or listening to Internet radio.
DTV Transition Question (Jan 9, 2009)Should the government delay the DTV Transition deadline date of Feb 17 until the economy gets back in order?On Thursday (Jan. 8), the Obama Transition Team reached out to newly seated Senate Commerce Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and asked him to lean on the FCC to get it to delay the long-awaited switch from analog signals to digital only. "I've long believed that there is too much at stake for consumers and for public safety to simply cross our fingers and hope for the best when it comes to the digital-television transition," said Rockefeller in a prepared statement. "Millions of Americans could be left in the dark if this doesn't go smoothly." What do you think? The Wires (Jan 9, 2009)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.One radio, two satellite services. As part of its FCC merger agreement, Sirius and XM Radio pledged to finally release a receiver that picks up both services. The company says its new Mirge unit will go on sale for $250 in the spring, allowing users to switch between services at the touch of a button. ZDNet: Six Vista annoyances fixed in Windows 7. Ed Bott: Has Microsoft learned from the countless complaints about the Vista user interface? Because I see plenty of significant improvements in Windows 7. The most revealing is a dialog box that includes this refreshing option: "Let me choose." Syndication Net: Syndication Networks Corporation has signed KGIL-AM. Los Angeles and XSUR-AM San Diego as affiliates for "When Radio Was", featuring digitally-restored episodes of classic old-time radio and airing on over 200 affiliate stations and hosted by old-time radio expert Greg Bell. USA Today: The worst recession in decades will make 2009 a gloomy year for TV Guide, premium cable channels, and Sirius XM Satellite Radio, some of Wall Street's most seasoned media analysts say. Yet, it could be just fine for people who like Harry Potter, Internet equal access legislation, The Daily Beast, personal finance adviser Suze Orman and Blu-ray discs Seattle PI: Another radio station goes dark? Whatever happened to that station, KMCQ-FM? At the moment, nothing appears to be happening with KMCQ-FM/104.5. The station has been off the air for several weeks, and there's no explanation as to why or when it might retur Comment: so many radio stations are going dark that they would form the Evil Empire with Darth Vader controlling all of them! All Access: CITADEL Talk KKOH-A/RENO has dropped TALK RADIO NETWORK's MICHAEL SAVAGE and added RADIO AMERICA's ROGER HEDGECOCK to its lineup. |