Gary Lycan: The signal is fading on radio traffic reports as motorists continue to rely on GPS devices and cell phones to monitor traffic

Deseret News: National analysts are now saying Citadel's absorption of ABC radio several years ago was a bad move

Perrin Cornell: Radio today is not what it once was. Like everything and all of us, it has changed with the times. The basic premise was to entertain and inform, and that has pretty much always been true. But it used to be, well, a lot more interesting

National Post: Tivoli Networks Radio has patented what they call "SuperBuffer", which promises to "substantially reduce annoying dropouts of program on difficult Internet radio stations"

John Maffei: Super Preview? Excerpt: How low can you go? Remember when the UCLA-USC football game was the biggest thing since chocolate pudding? It was always a national TV game. ABC would roll out its best crew and use all the bells and whistles on the telecast. Well, Saturday's game in the L.A. Coliseum is on Fox Sports Prime Ticket ---- a network that is generally not available in San Diego because the folks at Fox and Cox Communications can't come to an agreement over scheduling and payment. Kickoff is 7 p.m., a good time on Saturday with nothing good on primetime TV.

Jay Posner: Why don't Chargers ward off blackout? If the game is blacked out, it will not be available on regular TV or NFL Sunday Ticket unless you head to Santa Barbara and points north or Brawley and points east. It will not be shown on tape delay unless it is selected by NFL Network as one of the top games of the week.

Donny Osmond Wins 'Dancing With The Stars'

If It's Friday at 12:01am, the Day After Thanksgiving (Nov 27, 2009)

When it's 12:01am on Friday morning in your time zone, a minute after Thanksgiving Day as well as Thanksgiving Season ends, this is what we can now say.

Let The Christmas Shopping Season Begin!

Now you can have Christmas and Hanukkah themed anything such as ads, displays, etc. Don't want to get sick of the season before Thanksgiving, do we?

Tomorrow, We Say Those Six Words (Nov 26, 2009)

Inside Radio reports that nearly 175 stations are in holiday-mode already and the number will explode over the next several days. Consultants say it's for a good reason - it works.

The Holiday "Cringe songs" are coming, says the 50s/60s Board of Radio-Info.com. You'd expect "Jingle Bells" by the Singing Dogs and "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer." But then the posters lace into "Dominic the Donkey" by Lou Monte and even some traditional holiday chestnuts that some folks are really burned out on. It's an entertaining thread as you look forward to (or dread) the barrage of Christmas tunes.

Tom Taylor: Low Power FM is a priority for Obama. One D.C. player tells me "this is all politics. A couple of months ago, you wrote that there was unprecedented communication between the White House and the FCC, under Chairman [Julius] Genachowski, Obama's friend from Harvard Law School. You said there was daily communication. Well, I'm here to tell you it's even more frequent than that. And the White House really wants to deliver on Low Power FM, as a political thing." It's not just the White House - plenty of folks in Congress want the Local Community Radio Act to become law. All five members of the FCC, including Republicans Rob McDowell and Meredith Attwell Baker, have testified that they favor it. We haven't heard the Obama White House publicly push Low Power FM - but from what I'm hearing, they're very seriously behind it. The Free Press grass roots alliance has a very friendly ear to talk into. Tough fight for the NAB, which managed a compromise ten years ago in the latter days of the Clinton Administration, and staved off losing the third-adjacent channel protection for full power radio until (apparently) now. The bill has passed the Commerce committees in both House and Senate and has sponsorship from folks in both parties.

OC Register: Tom Leykis returned to L.A. radio on Nov. 23, and who would have thought it would be on National Public Radio. But it was. He joined attorney Gloria Allred on a segment of Patt Morrison's weekday afternoon show on KPCC 89.3 FM to discuss "Fatherhood - What Is It?"

Inside Music Media: If radio had human rights violations, the government would eventually be forced to investigate Clear Channel, Citadel and perhaps the worst offender of all, Cumulus. These three radio consolidators - the largest in all of radio - share a common disrespect for their employees and a blatant disregard for their careers. What's worse is that these are the leaders - like them or not - from whom other smaller radio owners take their direction

Jacobs Media: If you doubt the power of Facebook and social networking sites, consider the Oxford Dictionary's choice for word of the year: UNFRIEND

Read the Request Letter. Details: The Minority Media Telecommunications Council is requesting that the Federal Communications Commission announce that during the upcoming filing window commencing on January 25, 2010 for digital low power television and television translators, no applications specifying Channels 5 or 6 will be accepted in response to the Public Notice of June 29, 2009. In addition, the applications filed in the August 25, 2009 window period specifying Channel 5 and 6 should not be processed. These TV channels have been proposed for FM broadcasting in the Diversity Proceeding, Report and Order and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making

The Wires (Nov 25, 2009)

Donny Osmond will be heard every Saturday and Sunday with Donny?s special feature called "8-Track Playback" beginning in December Global Radio Network, the distributor of Music of Your Life that launches in early 2010 says

Cornell Daily Sun: As my time left in Ithaca dwindles away, there's one aspect about life in Tompkins County that I only recently realized just how much I'm going to miss: the radio stations. Now, I'm not sure how wonderful or terrible the radio stations were in your hometown, but where I'm from in the New York, tri-state area, FM programming is a waste of frequency space. There are more Spanish than English stations, the local college frequencies don't have enough power to broadcast without going static every few seconds, and the pop stations play literally the same ten songs with twice as many commercials

No Longer Linking to the San Diego Union Tribune (Nov 24, 2009)

Reps of SDUT may instead e-mail me links to related radio and TV stories that readers can read online for free.

Dave's Music Notes Podcast To End (Nov 24, 2009)

"DMN" focuses on music that's interesting, cool, and listenable. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I will be ending the series with this Thursday's podcast.

Some of the songs, however, will be featured on my podcast "The David Tanny Show". The "Police on the Scene" feature which as featured on "DMN" will be featured on the "DTS" podcast.

The time has come to stop producing two separate podcasts and merge the best of the comedy and non-comedy into "The David Tanny Show" podcast.

The Berger and Prescott feature will be moved to around the :30 mark while Police on the Scene will be around the :45 mark of the hour-long podcasts. This will take effect beginning in two weeks.

Right now, a marathon posting of "The David Tanny Show" podcasts are happening for this and next week, with a podcast a day (except Mondays) being posted.

You can check out the David Tanny show here:

http://www.davidtanny.com/5400.htm

Dave's Music Notes can be found here:

http://www.davidtanny.com/5800.htm

All of the original podcasts for "Dave's Music Notes" will remain intact. The section devoted to "DMN" will remain intact.

The best of the newer non-comedy songs and future editions of "Police on the Scene" will appear on the "David Tanny Show" podcasts beginning with the first produced edition sometime after December 6th.

New comedy and non-comedy songs (music and spoken word) are accepted and may be sold with no compensation to the webmaster at this new section "It's DaFFY!". Check it out, submit your songs and non-songs, as well as your pay links so people can buy your recordings, plus a youtube video link if applicable, and you're good. Service is free.

http://www.davidtanny.com/098.htm

Christmas Music Time at 98.1 (Nov 24, 2009)

It happens weekends from 10am-6pm for the music that's going to get you into the holiday spirit! From the classics to the modern versions of your holiday favorites, it's their special yuletide mix every weekend.

Also on the day after Thanksgiving and the official start of the Christmas Season, 98.1 will do a "bonus" day of Christmas Music as the season gets underway!

Sticking It To Radio (Nov 24, 2009)

"Tivo for radio" is one way to think about Logitech's new USB Radio Tuner. And when you see it - don't you immediately want one, or at least want to know more about it? No price yet, says DeviceDaily.com, and you'd need to supply an external antenna for AM reception. But imagine plugging this thing in and ordering it to tape a morning show, or special interview/concert. Since the recorded material goes into iTunes, you can drag it over to an iPod from there. I'll keep tabs on this development for you, as the unit comes to market in early December.

This is D.T. I could have used this way back then in the 80s and early 90s when I was taping a lot of songs from the radio and Dr. Demento's shows on the radio. Problem was that the technology wasn't in place back then, and today, I can tape the streams off of Internet radio much easier with a Hi-Fi VCR, and I haven't taped off of the radio (except talk shows) since 2002.

The Wires (Nov 24, 2009)

Chicago Tribune: "The countdown to the end of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' starts now," Winfrey said at the end of Friday's telecast, a tear stubbornly holding to the corner of her left eye. "And, until that day in 2011 when it ends, I intend to soak up every meaningful, joy-filled moment with you." Winfrey is going to go big and go home. Which raises the question of where home is exactly?

NY Times: An Unsteady Future for Broadcast - Have we finally reached a tipping point that suggests a remarkable decline in the fortunes of broadcast television in America?