Music City Birthdays (Oct 3, 2009)

» On TV Friday (10/2): Luke Bryan, Top 20 Country Countdown (GAC).

On TV Saturday (10/3): Taylor Swift, On the Set: You Belong With Me (re-air) (GAC).

On TV Sunday (10/4): Alison Krauss & Union Station, Soundstage (re-air) (GAC).

On TV Monday (10/5): Jack Ingram, Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS); Steep Canyon Rangers, Late Show with David Letterman (CBS); Dierks Bentley, Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (NBC); Trace Adkins, Glenn Beck (Fox News).

The Wires (Oct 3, 2009)

TV Tech: NYC Cablevision Customers Could Lose Unencrypted Programming. Cablevision wants to drop unencrypted channels "effective upon its upcoming conversion to all-digital programming. (Editor: when Cox does that, I'm gone from Cox cable. My VCRs can't tape digital.)

TV Tech: Analyst: Broadcast Bankruptcies Could Be Answer to Broadband Spectrum Shortage. Could the spectrum be better used for something else?

Public Domain 4U has an awesome selection of Creative Commons and out-of-copyright blues music that is definitely worth checking out

L.A.'s "other" classical public radio station is automating for budget reasons, says LARadio.com, and that takes Ian Friebarn-Smith, Laura Brodian and Sharone Rosen off the air at KCSN (88.5), owned by Cal State-Northridge.

All Access reports that KABC 790 has picked up Frosty, Heidi, and Frank for the 9am-NOON shift beginning on Monday.

Gary Lycan: KABC's Tilden: 'Give people a little bit of hope' - On the radio: Kennedy leaves KFI Suits show, stays with 98.7 FM

All Access 3.0 Launches (Oct 2, 2009)

Visit allaccess.com for the new website design.

Some news from there: MAGIC BROADCASTING Urban KDAY/LOS ANGELES is once again simulcasting with co-owned sister station KWIE, which is licensed to RIVERSIDE/SAN BERNADINO.

The CW Should Have Gotten Monday Night Football (Oct 1, 2009)

Ratings for MNF on ESPN are so strong that its beating the ratings for the top-rated broadcast network in its time period.

In cities where ESPN's broadcast is being repeated on TV stations in home team markets where one of the two teams are represented, MNF's ratings are through the roof.

Anyone care for Gossip Girl when football is on? The CW should have gotten MNF.

The Wires (Oct 1, 2009)

Mel Phillips: The answer to whether or not the FCC can mandate FM radio for cell phones is no. However, how many of you ever believed the agency could mandate that analog TV become digital? I didn't think so. Jeff Smulyan has championed the inclusion of an FM signal on all cell phones but like the name he chose for his company, Emmis, he believes in the truth - the literal Hebrew to English translation of his company name

SDNN: Faltering Radio Industry (Oct 1, 2009)

Excerpts:

The traditional media world has been turned on its head by the Great Recession and radio is no exception. ItÆs a simple equation really. Fewer advertisers equals less revenue, which equals smaller budgets, which equals cutbacks, resource reductions and eventual layoffs.

In August, the news that longtime morning show duo Jeff and Jer (Jeff Detrow and Jerry Cesak) were leaving Star 94.1 after a contract dispute, left a tangible example of just how deep the struggles of the industry are.

ôI canÆt even listen to the radio now, just because how disconnected the medium is,ö [Chris] Cantore said. ôItÆs about content, content, content. [Radio stations] love to blame the Internet [for the decrease in popularity], but all the Internet did was prove to people that they can get better content than what they were being force fed foràwell, ever since the beginning of the medium, really.ö

He said that the Internet now just simply does it better.

ôRadio stations didnÆt listen to their consumers and now the consumers are out there with the birth of new and social media. People are more interested in what a blogger has to say about music, pop culture, and entertainment, than what the radio has to say,ö Cantore said.

Read the entire article at the link above.

The Wires (Sep 30, 2009)

USA Today: Microsoft is releasing free antivirus PC software online

Gorman Media: Pay-for-play, payola and other shady deals to manipulate airplay are not illegal for Internet radio. The Big Four will be free to cut side deals - like buying blocks of time for airplay .

NY Post: CNN wants to replace Larry King with Ryan Seacrest.

Comedian BILL ENGVALL will release a new album, "Aged And Confused," next TUESDAY (10/6). A TV special to coincide with the album will also be broadcast on COMEDY CENTRAL on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21st. The DVD of the TV special will hit stores on NOVEMBER 24th.

The Wires (Sep 29, 2009)

Mel Phillips: You may have missed this gem of a story that could affect how loudly you play your car radio. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) filed suit against AT&T three months ago, alleging that each time a musical ringtone goes off in public the mobile phone music snippet constitutes a performance and violates copyright law

Daytime Confidential: Insiders tell TV Guide Canada that ABC may cancel "One Life to Live" next year. The website editor hears it could happen as early as Spring. Says the DC editor: "Watch One Life to Live!"

Comment by KeiraNY: If OLTL is indeed cancelled, I'm giving up on ABC!! Why is it that OLTL continues to be treated like the 'stepchild' of ABC?? It's the BEST show they have right now. Do they really believe we want to watch the crapiness that GH has become? That AMC is barely recognizable these days? If Mr. Frons had any brain power left, he'd take a look at "fixing" AMC first and look to return it to its glory days while telling Bob Guza at GH that there needs to be less mob/killings and more romance, storytelling! THAT MR. Frons is what can save the ABC Daytime division. But what the hell do we know? We're only 'dumb' fans of the show and we'll watch whatever you put in front of us, right? .

Opposing comment by kitty: Why should I care about a show that doesn't care about me? OLTL is not watchable. I could care less about Rex/Gigi and whoever else they put in that mess, not to mention Cole/Starr. If anyone behind the scenes (this means Ron and Frank) cared, we still wouldn't be having Rex/Gigi promos when the story has bombed from day one. They want my viewership, give me what I want, and Dorian pretending to be gay isn't my idea of entertainment.