The Wires (August 28, 2010)

Jay Posner TV/Radio Sports: Leitner will return to Padres in 2011

John Maffei TV/Radio Sports: Lewin racking up the miles to call Chargers, Padres games this weekend

Multichannel News: Hallmark Channels, AT&T U-verse Stuck In Negotiating Neutral As Carriage Deadline Nears. Parties Face Contract Expiration, Networks Drops On Aug. 31

George Varga, SDUT: KCBQ-AM, the once-monumental San Diego radio station that often dominated Top 40 radio here between 1958 and 1978, will be honored with a monument of its own today - Saturday in Santee - Santee Mayor Randy Voepel will be on hand to help unveil the monument at this free public event. He'll be joined by such former KCBQ star DJs as "Shotgun" Tom Kelly, who will serve as master of ceremonies; Jack Woods (better known as "Charlie" of the radio team Charlie & Harrigan; and Jack Vincent, 92, the station's former engineer and overnight DJ.

KCBQ Monument August 26 (Aug 27, 2010)

http://blog.kcbqremembered.net/

A monument honoring the KCBQ AM 1170 studio and transmitter facility in Santee is slated to be dedicated at the location where it once stood, 9416 Mission Gorge Road in Santee, a site presently occupied by Kohl's and Lowe's. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, August 28 at 1170 AM (12:10pm).

The monument features photos of the KCBQ building which housed studios, offices and transmitters, as well as the station's six 200 foot transmitting towers which broadcast what was for many years San Diego's only 50,000 watt AM signal.

The monument commemorates the period between 1958 and 1978 when the station featured a "top forty" music format. It was often the most listened to station in San Diego and had a national reputation for its programming excellence.

The monument features names of over one hundred of the talented dj's and newscasters who were heard on the station during this period.

Many former KCBQ air personalities, as well as behind the scenes staff are expected to attend. Also attending will be Santee mayor Randy Voepel and President of Bartell hotels, Richard Bartell, the son of broadcaster Lee Bartell who built the original KCBQ facility.

The monument will be unveiled by Mayor Voepel and legendary longtime KCBQ overnight DJ Jack Vincent who was with the station when the facility was constructed in 1958.

The monument is supported by private contributors, designed by Seamen-Poe Monument Company, and installed by Charco Construction Company.

The public is invited to witness the unveiling.

Radio Observations (Aug 27, 2010)

He also notes about 88.9 in Descanso with a CP for a transmitter broadcasting at 330 watts directional.

The Wires (Aug 27, 2010)

Multichannel News: FCC In Loop On Time Warner Cable, Disney Rate Discussions. A source at the Federal Communications Commission says the agency is "being kept informed" about carriage negotiations between The Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Cable as the clock ticks down to a Sept. 2 deadline.

C-Net: Music tech guru says Web is not the enemy. John Mellencamp, known for such '80s hits as "Jack and Diane" and "Hurts So Good," last week said the Web is the most dangerous creation since the atomic bomb. Stevie Nicks, the Fleetwood Mac songstress, concluded in an interview this week that the "Internet has destroyed rock." Jac Holzman, the man who discovered The Doors, founded Elektra Records, and nudged the big recording companies into adopting the compact disc, considers the Web and says: "I think the music industry has a bright future." Wow, that's quite a contrast in views. The difference is Holzman has witnessed most of the industry-shaking technologies during his six decades in the music business--and he's not panicking.

The Wires (Aug 26, 2010)

TV Tech: Canada's DTV Transition Off Track. Country's broadcasters face 2011 shutoff with no cash, leadership.

NY Daily News: Howard Stern explained to a Sirius XM caller recently why he dismisses Talkers magazine's recent "all-time top radio talkers" list that puts him at No. 2, behind Rush Limbaugh. First, Stern questioned Talkers' description of Limbaugh as an "innovator." "There was no Rush Limbaugh till I came along," said Stern. "He failed on radio for years till he heard what I did".

Ars Technica: Radio is quite serious about its push to mandate FM radio receivers in all US cell phones. The idea, which could turn out to be part of a complex deal with the music industry on "performance rights" (paying artists to play their music on the radio), sounded tentative at first - both sides stressed to us that no deal had been reached, that these were only talks so far. But when the National Association of Broadcasters takes the time to pen a 1,300-word blog post about the "facts" in favor of mandatory FM radio, it's clear that the idea has moved beyond the "idle speculation" stage.

Reuters Wires: In exchange of about US $100 million in payments a year to the music industry, the NAB wants an FM chip mandate. The NAB won't accept a performance rights compromise without the FM chip mandate, officials there said.

Jacobs Media: "We want to be in as many cars as possible. We're beginning to embed internet radios in all the places where you traditionally have a broadcast radio. Ultimately, the choice we hope consumers make is they'll opt for this instead of broadcast." Readers of this blog will recognize this quote from Pandora CEO Tim Westergren. It's yet another indication that Pandora is doing everything it can to kick ass and take names in its assault on broadcast radio.

Randy Dotinga: Radio host's confession: He's a thief.

The Wires (Aug 25, 2010)

RAIN 8/24: NAB presents details of proposed royalty settlement to members. DEAL WOULD REDUCE CURRENT NAB STREAMING RATES 10%, TAKE CRB OUT OF PROCESS.

Multichannel News: Multichannel Market Shrinks For First Time: SNL Kagan.

Who Da Guy Hawaii: 93 KHJ: Inside Boss Radio - Excerpt # 18: The Ken Levine BOSSBALL REVIEW 1965-1969: Robert W. Morgan - Hall of Famer. Best lead-off hitter in the game. Multi-skilled man who does it all. Pipes, timing, personality, production, humor. Throws in a wicked curve at any time. (His great production ability proves he can "pitch."). Sneaky fast. Can score at will -- Scotty Brink - Table setter. The ultimate team player. Traded to the Army then returned. Had big free agent offers elsewhere (WABC-New York) but chose to stay. Professional. Loves to play and it shows. No big headlines but coveted by every major league team for years.

Inside Music Media: If I am a radio station, I've got to do better. Must be live and local. Do not need to stream my station but do need to be in the mobile content business. I expect to have to say this until I have no voice left because broadcasters are sitting right there looking at these assets they bought that provide what consumers are using less and less - 24/7 programming -- If I am a news organization, I'm going to invest heavily in mobile news content.

FMQB: RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working"

Didja Hear? (Aug 24, 2010)

This TV is coming to San Diego on KSWB-DT2 at a date to be announced. The DT2 channel is currently in testing mode.

The Wires (Aug 24, 2010)

KROP Brawley To Return. The Imperial Valley’s KROP (1300) will return doing talk according to the Imperial Valley Press. KROP is the onetime sibling of CHR “Q96” KSIQ, which motored from El Centro-Mexicali into the San Diego market, leaving behind KROP. The local paper says KROP has signed up Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin for the former country station. New owners Teresa Goodspeed and Larry Allen (as LarDog Communications) expect to hit the air on Labor Day, September 6.

Multichannel News: TBN Donates 155 Low-Power Stations To MMTC. Minority group says it may not be able to accept all of them.

Washington Post: A flawed political process resulted in a panel of judges setting punitively high rates that would have put many Webcasters out of business, and even the more reasonable rates negotiated last year are substantially higher than those that the XM Sirius satellite-radio firm owes, and infinitely higher than those that AM and FM stations pay. That's because in the United States--unlike in most other countries--radio stations don't pay "performance royalties" to musicians at all .

All Access reports that Jeff Dotseth to Exit Xtra Sports 1360/San Diego Afternoon 'Drive' in order to join Mixed Martial Arts clothing company CLINCH GEAR as head of its media department.