DSC Update (July 17, 2010)

The Wires (July 17, 2010)

John Maffei TV/Radio Sports: ESPN follows World Cup with wire-to-wire coverage of British Open.

Gary Lycan: Local broadcaster Chuck Madden dies

Gary Lycan: Compelling content. Focused adult programming. Delivering more current and hot topics. That's the vision and game plan of Jack Silver, the "silver bullet" behind the once-popular KLSX/97.1 FM who has now moved over to KABC/790 AM as program director and operations manager. Silver rejoins long-time friend and colleague Bob Moore, also ex-KLSX, who is now the president and general manager at KABC.

Who Da Guy Hawaii: 93 KHJ: Inside Boss Radio - Excerpt # 10: Casey Kasem: Ron Jacobs and I became friends when he had asked to have a meeting concerning the possibility of my moving from KRLA to KHJ. As a matter of fact I think there were two or three meetings. We had a mutual respect for one another's talent and hit it off. The only reason I didn't go to KHJ was because the money I was asking for was much more than the salaries of the KHJ air staff - at the time I was enjoying success and making big money with my daily TV show and weekly dances. Ron couldn't risk doing anything that might disrupt the great morale at KHJ or upset the DJs who were responsible for making his station #1. A few short years later, I called Ron and asked him if he would be interested in producing a countdown show, the Top 40 Hits in America. His immediate reply was, "Sounds great! Let's get together and do it!" And with our associates, we did. And I've been counting down the hits ever since.

The Rabbitt Report: Live Aid took place at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia and at Wembley Stadium in London, this week in 1985. Bob Geldof rounded up big name artists like Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, The Who, David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Queen, Tina Turner, The Cars, Bryan Adams, Hall and Oates, Lionel Richie and Led Zeppelin with Phil Collins involved. Millions of dollars were raised for starving people in Ethiopia. The performances were shown live via satellite for 18 consecutive hours.

Inside Music Media: Again we are getting lost in the rating device of the radio industry's own creation - The Portable People Meter. Why do you think listeners spend so little time listening? One reason is the technology that Arbitron employs to generate PPM numbers. They encode radio signals. Then build portable devices that respondents carry around on their bodies. These devices pick up any encoded signal it "hears" and thus reports it as true listening.

Hear 2.0: There will be a lot of people who are thinking "just because I can create radio online, it will be good enough." And that's not necessarily true. "Good" is good. "Just because I can" isn't.

Now and Then: The highly-coveted female listener would listen to radio more if they could listen on their cellphone. According to a new Alan Burns and Associates study of females, half (54%) of all 2,057 women surveyed and 73% of the "early adopters" of technology say they would buy a different cellphone if the phone had a radio receiver.

FMQB: Clear Channel Calls For Dropping Radio Ownership Restrictions One owner could hold up to a dozen licenses in a single large market if the FCC goes for what Clear Channel is proposing. The industry's largest player says radio's long overdue for more deregulation to help it survive the onslaught of new media competitors.

Activists warn of deregulation temptation. It appears some activists believe the mood in Washington may be tilting toward acknowledging the growing number of new media outlets - and its role on broadcasters' financial viability. The media activist group Free Press is urging the FCC to "resist industry overtures" to further relax media rules.

Radio Ink: In FCC Comments, Clear Channel Thinks Big. Commenting in the FCC's quadrennial ownership rules review, Clear Channel Communications is thinking on a large scale: After saying that any limitation on radio ownership is no longer justified, the company suggests a two-tiered structure that would allow companies to own up to 12 stations in large markets, and an end to the AM and FM subcaps.

All Access: Clear Channel Proposes A Way To Get Bigger

All Access: Reese: 'Odds Stacked Against Us' On Performance Royalty Bill. Bonneville president/CEO Bruce Reese says broadcasters need "certainty" and the only way to get that may be to strike a compromise with the record labels on the most favorable terms possible. Speaking at the Conclave in Minneapolis, Reese conceded, "The odds are stacked against us." At the urging of Congress, the NAB and musicFirst Coalition have been holding informal discussions since last winter.

Multichannel: Rainbow, AT&T U-verse Ink New Carriage Accord After a fair amount of public posturing, AT&T and Rainbow Media Holdings have hammered out a new carriage accord

Radio World: CBS Radio Disputes KATY's IBOC Interference Claim

The Band Is Back Together! (July 16, 2010)

DSC now weekday mornings on 100.7 JACK FM

(San Diego û July 13, 2010) û To quote The Blues Brothers, "We're putting the band back together."

The DSC has been on hiatus from the San Diego Airwaves since January 4th of this year. For 20 years DSC has been a part of the lives of the people of San Diego. San Diego has cried with them, laughed with them, and made them a part of their morning routine. As of August 2nd DSC will be back on the air at 100.7 JACK FM heard weekdays 6am to 10am.

Mike O'Reilly, Program Director for JACK FM comments, "Opportunities like this are few and far between, this is a big win for the fans, the show and JACK! The addition of DSC is the x-factor that will catapult the JACK FM listening experience in San Diego to another level entirely." While The DSC will continue to be the show that listeners have passionately grown to love, JACK FM's mission "Playing What We Want" will be heard all day.

With JACK's attitude, playfulness, and quirkiness, DSC is a natural fit for the JACK FM brand. "DSC and JACK FM are a match made in radio heaven. We are thrilled to welcome them to KFMB Radio," says Gina Landau, Vice President/ General Manager of KFMB Radio.

DSC being taken off the air a few months before their 20th Anniversary has not gone un-noticed by their loyal fans. Many of them have taken to Social Media to "Bring Back Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw" and staged rallies to get them back on the air. "DSC being a top rated morning show in the San Diego market for 20 years has led to a very passionate and loyal listenership. We are very excited to have them at JACK FM," Ed Trimble, President of KFMB Stations.

Tune in Monday August 2nd at 6am to hear DSC on JACK FM!

Says Jim McInnes on Facebook, "Wow! It will be great to work with my friends, the DSC, again. It's been almost 8 years!"

Now you can leave the DSC a message at 888-570-1007 on JACK's voicemail....press 6 and be creative!

El Pollo Loco Bad Service (July 16, 2010)

RT to @ElPolloLocoInc on Twitter: Feedback sent. Disappointed in service this afternoon. Ordered guacamole. Got jalapeno. Clerk picked his nose. #fail

El Pollo Loco. It's Finger Pickin' Bad.

The Wires (July 16, 2010)

Radio World: CBS Radio Disputes KATY's IBOC Interference Claim. Urges FCC to dismiss petition

Inside Music Media: New research has emerged that shows a very favorable outlook should Apple enter the streaming music business. This option, while not technically being radio broadcasting, could have a significant impact on radio especially if broadcasters can find no equally attractive alternative.

Kurt Hanson: The signs that consumers want in-car web access -- including Internet radio -- are becoming clearer and clearer. Even though Ford, BMW and others have solutions right around the corner, consumers aren't waiting. They're bringing the Internet into their cars with DIY projects and smartphones. When in-car Internet radio does arrive for the masses, it could change how listeners think about radio, analysts say.

Multichannel News: AT&T, Rainbow Continue Discussions As Contract Deadline Passes. The carriage contract between AT&T U-verse and Rainbow Media Holdings expired at midnight, but the parties continued to negotiate into the morning hours

Multichannel News: TWC Relaunches RollOverOrGetTough.com Ahead Of Disney Deadline Time Warner Cable has taken RollOverOrGetTough.com out of mothballs, as the MSO gears up for what could be a bruising publicity battle over retrans and carriage fees with The Walt Disney Co. this summer.

Multichannel News: Cable Ops On Set-Tops: Don't Fence Us In.

Stern: Ruling wonÆt lure him back. This weekÆs appellate court ruling overturning most of the FCCÆs indecency rules donÆt appear to be much of an FM aphrodisiac for Howard Stern. ôDonÆt get all excited,ö Stern tells listeners. HeÆs not planning to head back to terrestrial radio.

DSC is Going To Jack (July 15, 2010)

The morning team of Dave, Shelly & Chainsaw, aka "DSC," will be back August 2, this time on Midwest Television-owned "Jack FM" KFMB (100.7). The threesome had been heard in San Diego for 20 years up until January of this year, when they were pulled off Clear Channel's KGB after they declined a multi-year offer by the company. Mike O'Reilly, Program Director for JACK FM said, "Opportunities like this are few and far between, this is a big win for the fans, the show and JACK! The addition of DSC is the x-factor that will catapult the JACK FM listening experience in San Diego to another level entirely."

Discuss it here!

Letter: New Normal Music (July 15, 2010)

The Wires (July 15, 2010)

Retrans Critics Unite!

Tom Taylor of radio-info: My favorite FCC indecency story - how it all started. A former Commission staffer tells this tale - "We got the complaint in the late 1970s from a broadcast of George Carlin's comedy routine, on Pacifica's WBAI, New York (99.1). So somebody went out to a local record store in Washington and bought the `Class Clown' album, and somebody else found a record player, and we all gathered in a office while somebody cued up the cut called `Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.' We listened to it, and we laughed our asses off. Then we went back to our desks, and one of the people who was laughing very hard wrote up the fine." And that's how it all started. Another 70s-era FCC staffer tells me that most of the Commission secretly (or not-so-secretly) wanted to lose the Pacifica case as it was appealed in the courts. That would have kept the agency out of the content business. The FCC did lose at the D.C. Circuit of Appeals, on constitutional grounds. But it appealed - and the Supreme Court handed it a victory. It also handed it the authority to regulate indecency and obscene content on radio and TV. But not cable, satellite radio, Internet radio, or any other non-broadcast medium. That's where we are today.

Vocalo: Now that the federal courts have struck down the government's zero-tolerance policy on broadcast indecency as "unconstitutionally vague and chilling," you'd think that Mancow Muller would be feeling a sense of vindication at last.

Mel Phillips: Most broadcasting people are not very fond of the status-quo ownership rules in effect and when the FCC asked for comments as part of the agency's quadrennial review, they got it. On Monday, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) called for modest reform of the rules, including the elimination of cross-ownership rules and reform of the TV duopoly rule.

Inside Music Media: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals saying, the FCC policy is "unconstitutionally vague" and leads to "a chilling effect that goes far beyond the fleeting expletives at issue here." Proponents of decency and restraint arguing to uphold the pre-Obama policy that makes even "fleeting indecency" such as the kind Nicole Richie, Cher and other personalities sometimes utter in public at awards show and the like. And that such offenses should be fined. One thing I've learned about politics from my mother who was a dyed-in-the-wool local Democratic party worker is that you'll never change someone's politics. But if we look beyond politics, perhaps we can all agree that the indecency issue and, for that matter, issues of free speech could be dealt with much more effectively at the local level.

Radio World: Clear Channel, Others Seeks Ownership Relief. Public interest groups oppose, citing too much consolidation.

DSC News Coming Whenever (July 14, 2010)

Court strikes down FCC indecency rules. (July 14, 2010)

Read the full story here.

Also read the entire story on AP.

Also read the story on FMQB.

The Wires (July 14, 2010)

Kurt Hanson: The results of a new study from Forrester Research show that users stick to one, maybe two devices to listen to digital music. For example, only 9% of testers used both a PC and mobile phone to listen to music. "It's not realistic to expect the average consumer to use large number of devices for music consumption," said Forrester analyst Mark Mulligan.

Multichannel: Translation Please: Linear TV's Dead and Other Cable Worries

Multichannel: Hulu, Netflix Take Cable Bypass

SDNN: A final farewell to legendary Don Coryell

Multichannel News: World Cup Final Nets Top U.S. Soccer Audience Ever: 24.3 Million. ABC, Univision Combine To Surpass Tally For U.S.-Ghana Match

Multichannel: Cable Ops Weigh In On Universal Service. Operators agree it is time to reform Universal Service Fund.

Stern: "The LeBron James of radio." Howard Stern is back from a two week vacation and it sounds like he's nowhere near a new contract deal with Sirius XM Radio. Perhaps hinting at a major issue, Stern has told listeners he's grown tired of his early morning start time. And he compares himself to the Miami Heat's newest player. Details at InsideRadio.com.

93 KHJ.com: The publisher suggests that to ensure delivery of the first press run, the new and expanded edition of KHJ: INSIDE BOSS RADIO - with 2 bonus CD's - should be ordered before July 18. Details online at 93khj.com.

George Johns: From George Johns -- I have known and worked on and off with the Magic Christian for most of my broadcast career. During that whole time Magic always claimed he was dying thus needing a lot of time off and a lot of drugs to ease the pain. Last night his early prediction sadly came true but needless to say he has left most of us with a ton of stories that we will never tire of telling + Jim Hilliard and I have worked together so long that now if he just thinks something he expects me to somehow hear it and do it.

Washington Post: Chris Berman, the host of ESPN's NFL studio show, was named the winner of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award.

The Wires (July 13, 2010)

All Access: Jack Silver Replaces David G. Hall At Helm Of KABC

All Access: Lauren McClusky Settles With McDonald's (editor's comment: I don't do business with McDonald's anymore.)

Los Angeles Busines Journal: Tom Leykis, drawing a full salary until his contract runs out in March 2012 but blocked from doing talk radio broadcasts until then, has started a company called the New Normal that produces podcasts and Internet streams. The radio vet said he can produce top-quality audio on the cheap and sell ads on eBay instead of using a sales staff -- a business model he believes will rewire the radio industry.

DFW News: After 34 years on the air in Dallas-Fort Worth, Christian radio station KVTT will cease operations Monday, a casualty of the economic downturn and of dwindling AM listenership.

RAIN: Mobile Data Usage Soars, but 25 percent use none. Of all the people who use cellphones, around 25% own a smartphone capable of browsing the Internet or using other data services like streaming Internet radio. But a new Nielsen study found that 25% of smartphone owners use less than 1MB of data each month. Plus, 50% of all mobile data is used by the top 6% of smartphone owners. That said, total monthly mobile data usage is on the rise.

Inside Radio: Savage still banned from U.K. A change of government apparently doesn't mean the welcome mat is being rolled out for Michael Savage. The conservative talk host remains on the U.K. 's list of individuals prohibited from entering the country. Savage says he's been informed by the government of Conservative Party Prime Minster David Cameron that the ban holds until he repudiates previous on-air statements.

Multichannel News: AT&T Threatens To Drop Rainbow Services. AT&T U-verse subscribers may miss the upcoming season of Mad Men as the telco is set to drop AMC and several other Rainbow Programming-owned services next week over a contract dispute

DSC Update (July 12, 2010)