The Wires (May 22, 2010)

Jay Posner TV/Radio: Strange but true: NBA 2, Padres 1 in TV ratings

ZDNet: Facebook fallout: survey finds 60 percent may quit over privacy

Robert Feder: Is Johnny B. making Sirius plans for his future? It doesn’t take much for fans of Jonathon Brandmeier to start buzzing about what’s next for the longtime Chicago radio star.

Hear 2.0: How do we redefine radio for an all-new age? The answer is here (and it's not "stick an FM receiver in a mobile phone"). At least part of the answer.

Inside Music Media: Over the course of each month, many of my readers have a chance to check in with paranormal radio stories that can be so bizarre that they belong in Ripley's Believe It Or Not. These are real stories from real radio people about unbelievable things that have actually happened in the radio industry.

All Access: SoundExchange Sitting On Unpaid Royalties

Up To 9 Million Americans Can't See 3DTV, Says Optometrists' Group (Multichannel News)

Inside Radio: HD Radio receiver sales accelerate. While HD Radio naysayers remain within the industry, there are an increasing number of buyers outside radio. With owners hunkered down over the last year, adding HD Radio multicasts was low on the priority list. So iBiquity instead put most of its focus on the consumer side of the rollout. It worked.

SAN DIEGO ARBITRON PPM RATINGS RELEASED: APRIL 2010 (May 21, 2010)

Winners: Z90, Magic 92.5, KYXY, XX Sports 1090, Walrus FM, and Smooth Jazz 98.1 FM

LOSERS: Rock 105.3, KGB (loosing over a point in a month!), 91X, KFMB-AM, and FM 94/9

The Wires (May 21, 2010)

Gary Lycan: Los Angeles PPMs for April 2010 and More!

Bright Radio Network: Broadcast Architecture has launched a new adult radio format via their Bright Radio Network. The new format features a wide variety of music woven together by one common theme; "Music That Feels Good", featuring songs that are uplifting, positive, mood enhancing and contemporary with over 50% of the playlist coming from music recorded in the 2000's.

Steve Carney, Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles PPMs for April 2010 and More!

ZD Net: San Francisco Music Tech: The future of Web radio is teetering on innovation and monetization.

Inside Music Media: The last battle is coming between good and evil before the day of judgment. I call it Armageddon Radio. For years now I have been warning that the radio industry would forever decline if it did not embrace the digital beyond. Many of you agree. Radio CEOs do not. But now even they cannot dodge the mounting evidence that just running on-air stations will not be good enough to sustain a growth industry.

John Maffei: Tube Talk - Ratings prove soccer is gaining popularity in the United States. ARTICLE: The FIFA World Cup, an event soccer fanatics say is the World Series, Super Bowl and NBA finals rolled into one, is three weeks away. Soccer fans are already salivating.

All Access: KATY 101.3 Idyllwild asks FCC to Cut KRTH 101.1's Digital Interference.

The Wires (May 20, 2010)

ZDNet: Is Firefox heading for a huge user decline?

Gary Lycan: KTWV 94.7 FM confirmed Tuesday that long-time afternoon drive personality Don Burns ôhad requested that Monday (May 17) be the final day to record his show,ö said The WaveÆs program director, Jhani Kaye. Burns, considered the signature voice of the station and host of the afternoon ôNo Stress Expressö was with 94.7 FM from day one in 1987.

Inside Music Media: What a world this is when radio companies file for bankruptcy, turn shareholder investments into worthless paper and then, with the blessing of a judge, start all over again as if nothing happened. I recently saw Tom Friedman, The New York Times columnist and bestselling author on Charlie Rose the other night. Friedman said that we have now entered an era when politicians for the first time in history will be taking things away from their constituents rather than giving something to them. FriedmanÆs comments made me think about the radio industry.

FMQB: RIAA Calls Out "Notorious" File-Sharing Services. RIAA and members of Congress release list of file-sharing sites and countries with "inadequate intellectual property protections."

The Wires (May 19, 2010)

Toronto Star: Gay radio firings spark listener protests: Musician asks Proud FM to withdraw her tunes from the stationÆs roster.

Joel Raab: Shorter Is Better: At least this is true with respect to song length. Could a trend be emerging? Witness new releases from Justin Moore, Billy Currington, Carrie Underwood in the 2:50 something range. Why does this matter? It helps both radio and records. Radio gets to play more songs and records gets more new songs played. Why?

George Johns: From George Johns -- A couple of weeks ago I was driving with Brent Farris from LA to Palm Springs for meetings we both were involved in. As we creeped along I decided to tune in The Frog which used to be one of my favorite radio stations when Joe Amaturo owned it and Tom Hoyt was the GM. What a shock! Instead of sounding very fun and friendly like they used to now they just sound loud and angry. The music, the promos, the spots, the jingles the liners, the Id's and even the jox sound extremely loud and angry. KIIS-FM sounded softer smoother and more fun than they did. Maybe they're bummed about the ratings???

The Wires (May 18, 2010)

Multichannel: TBS Gains Exclusive Cable Syndication Rights To 'Big Bang Theory'. Sitcom Will Join Lineup In Fall 2011

Daily Telegraph U.K.: Radio news 'more trustworthy than TV' -- More people trust the news if they hear it on the radio rather than on television, according to a report.

Alexandra Topping: Traditional DJs 'will survive internet radio revolution' --- The Great Escape Music Conference hears there will still be a role for radio-style DJs despite wealth of online streaming programmes.

Sirius XM: SIRIUS XM Radio today issued revised guidance on its subscribers and certain financial metrics for 2010. The company now expects net subscriber additions for the full year to be approximately 750,000, pro forma revenue to be approximately $2.75 billion, and pro forma adjusted income from operations to be approximately $575 million.

Anti Music: Imagine calling your local radio station to request a song currently on their playlist chart and a short time later you hear your voice on air manipulated to sound like you are requesting a song from another artist. A fan of house music hitmaker Marc Mysterio had that experience last Friday with Twin-Cities Top-40 radio station KHTC-FM.

Inside Music Media: The radio and music businesses used to be so simple. Give the audience what they want and they'll come back for more. Since the Internet, the mobile generation and the many alternate choices for entertainment available at a touch, swipe or click, these industries radio need to go back to school on social media changes. Steve Jobs is the expert on reading his young consumer base. It doesn't matter that he is a baby boomer or that his tactics seem to be more old school than new age. But when it comes to understanding how consumers prefer to use new technology, he's the professor.

FMQB: Emmis unlikely to sell Chicago cluster any time soon.

Just In...Dr. Demento No Longer on The Loop (May 17, 2010)

After some 30 years of affilliation, WLUP has cancelled carriage of "The Dr. Demento Show" as of last night (5/16) and is no longer getting the Chicago locals demented anymore.

Since 2006, WLUP had to black out the Internet feed of its signal during the hours it carried Demento at the request of its syndicator Talonian Productions. With the dropping of the show, it no longer has the problem of shutting off its worldwide Internet feed for two hours a week.

Dr. Demento host Barret E. Hansen told me via e-mail that they did not give him or his company any reasons for the cancelation of the show.

WLUP reportedly has a new program director. Internet rumors are going around that Emmis, the owner of the station, is selling the station.