Reminder to Tijuana (Oct 29, 2011)

Mexicans don't have to worry about their pre-2007 VCRs not resetting themselves to the correct time whenever DST begins and ends in Mexico. In the U.S., however, pre-2007 VCRs and other timepieces will be one hour behind DST from the second Sunday in March through 1:59am on the first Sunday in April, and one hour behind DST from the last Sunday in October to 1:59am on the first Sunday in November.

Folks in San Diego can set their VCRs to Mountain Standard Time during those weeks when the times for San Diego and Tijuana are off by one hour.

Wiremania (Oct 29, 2011)

Radio Wires

Time Out Chicago: A lot of good people lost their jobs at radio stations all over the country this week. In most cases, it didn't matter whether they were talented and capable or whether their stations were successful and profitable. They were fired because the huge companies they worked for didn't want to pay their salaries anymore.

Mel Phillips: Internet-Only Radio May Not Survive.

TV Wires

Soap Opera Network: Ratings: All Soaps Down in Women 18-49 Demo.

Multichannel News: DirecTV Wants Fox To Stop Running Ads About Potential Station Drops. DirecTV has sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission complaining about Fox advertising related to their cable programming dispute.

Tech Wires

USA Today: The FCC voted 4-0 on the makeover of the Universal Service Fund, which helps provide phone service to rural America and to those with low incomes. Regulators approved the new Connect America Fund in a bid to boost U.S. broadband to rural America. The FCC also started a new Mobility Fund to build out mobile broadband.

Security researcher finds major security flaw in Facebook. A security researcher has discovered a major security hole affecting the most popular social networking site, Facebook.

Light Reading: Wave Goodbye to Free Wi-Fi.

High Standard Misc Wires

Ford reintroduces the 1965 Mustang. If all you wanna do is ride around, the classic convertible can be yours for $15,000.

The 7 best big sedans for the money

9 Healthy Snacks for Dieters

Heinz offers foodies a fancier ketchup spiked with balsamic vinegar

How To Be $1,000 Richer By 2012. "Look for odd jobs on Craigslist or consider joining elance.com, guru.com, or freelancer.com, for freelance work that may be appropriate."

2011 World Series Schedule (Oct 29, 2011)

Game 1 - Wednesday, October 19 - Texas Rangers at St. Louis Cardinals - 5:05pm (STL 3, TEX 2)
Game 2 - Thursday, October 20 - Texas Rangers at St. Louis Cardinals - 5:05pm (TEX 2, STL 1, series tied 1-1)
Game 3 - Saturday, October 22 - St. Louis Cardinals at Texas Rangers - 5:05pm (STL 16, TEX 7, STL leads series 2-1)
Game 4 - Sunday, October 23 - St. Louis Cardinals at Texas Rangers - 5:05pm (TEX 4, STL 0, series tied 2-2)
Game 5 - Monday, October 24 - St. Louis Cardinals at Texas Rangers - 5:05pm (TEX 4, STL 2, TEX leads series 3-2)
Game 6 - Thursday, October 27 - Texas Rangers at St. Louis Cardinals - 5:05pm (STL 10, TEX 9, series tied 3-3)
Game 7 - Friday, October 28 - Texas Rangers at St. Louis Cardinals - 5:05pm (STL 6, TEX 2, STL wins the World Series 4-3)

Hey Time Warner Cable, Here's an HDTV Antenna Ad You Won't Air! (Oct 28, 2011)

They call their product the Leaf Antenna. What do you think of this? Is it better than the other antennas you tried? Let me know.

Time Warner Cable Rejects HDTV Antenna Maker's Ad. MSO Declined to Air Spot That Says TV Viewers 'Don't Need Expensive Cable Service'. Here's an ad they posted on yotube.

Mohu launched the flexible, "paper-thin" 9-ounce Leaf antenna in April 2011, and it's now listed as the top-selling HDTV antenna on Amazon.com. The company has sold more than 10,000 via Amazon.com and several thousand more through its website, according to Baucom.

Time Warner Cable said it rejected the ad because it advertised a competitive product. "It is our general policy to not take ads that directly compete with our broadband, video and voice services," the cable operator said in a statement, adding that other MSOs had declined to take the ad.

I should note to the readers that the Leaf Antenna is designed to pick up terrestrial broadcast TV stations only. It does not pick up satellite or cable channels; you still need a satellite dish or cable for those. To Time Warner, how can a TV antenna compete with broadband, video, and voice services? They're not the same thing. TV antennas cannot perform services a cable company can other than to pick up local broadcast TV stations.

Wiremania (Oct 28, 2011)

Radio Wires

All Access: KABC PD Jack Silver Adds KLOS PD Stripes. At KLOS, UNCLE JOE BENSON returns to afternoon drive, succeeding departed PD/afternoon BOB BUCHMANN. GARY MOORE's night shift is lengthened to midnight, followed my overnighter MIKE VOGEL.

KYXY 96.5: "The Late" Artists Of The 80s! Special Halloween I Love The 80s Weekend! Zombie Approved.

New York Times: Clear Channel cuts D.J.'s by the hundreds across the country + With nearly $20 billion in debt, Clear Channel has been trying to revamp its operations - to run the business, as Wendy Goldberg, the CC spokeswoman, put it, "like it's 2011, not 1970" + Shane Warner, who was until Wednesday the morning host and the program director for KWTX in Waco, Texas said he did not resent Clear Channel or its management team "one bit" for the moves they made + In Albuquerque, Tony Lynn and Myles Copeland were the only live local hosts left at the country music station KBQI. On Wednesday, the morning hosts were let go

Gary Lycan: KABC 790 AM has grounded airborne traffic reporter Capt. Jorge Jarrin, ending his 26-year career at the station + KLOS "Uncle Joe" Benson replaced ousted program director Bob Buchmann + Gary Moore is expanding his evening shift to midnight to include the first two hours of the recently relieved of duties Jim Ladd + KABC PD Jack Silver takes on the additional duties of program director for KLOS

Gary Lycan: "My disappointment is I didn't have a farewell show," said Jim Ladd hours after hearing that he was among more than a dozen people being let go at KLOS 95.5 FM and KABC 790 AM on Oct. 25. The downsizing was the first such action taken by Cumulus Media since it acquired the two stations from Citadel earlier this year. "I was very stunned and I still am. I have been through this before, but it is always traumatic," the long-time "free-form" classic rock personality said in a phone interview - Also let go Oct. 25 was program director and midday personality Bob Buchmann and KABC production director Howard Hoffman

Los Agneles Times: If your plan is to play the exact same songs on all your stations around the country at the exact same time then you don't really need program directors or disc jockeys. Remember when you knew you were in a different city just by listening to the radio? Yeah, those days are gone

Forbes Magazine: Expect Lots More Ads on Internet-Only Radio Sites - A new report from SNL Kagan shows why it's going to be incredibly difficult for free Internet radio to last without adding a lot more ads

Radio Ink: What's Next for AM Radio?

Can the Massive Firings Save Clear Channel?

Clear Channel: "We Are Not Cutting Costs"

Have You Been Fired? We Want To Help You.

All Access: Hundreds Cut By Clear Channel Yesterday If You Lost Your Job, Please E-mail Us Your Information.

Tom Taylor: With all of yesterday's carnage, Clear Channel probably isn't done with layoffs - large markets could be next. TRI's been telling you about the large-market managers meeting that convened yesterday in Chicago and finishes today. Presumably the company's got a new box of flash drives, and you wonder if the same "top 3 in demo" test is being applied in markets where there are many more stations. But the timetable could be the same - about two weeks after these management meetings, there might be another wave of layoffs. Or will the large markets get kinder treatment in terms of keeping local talent?

Inside Radio: Clear Channel staffs up national programming unit. On the heels of a massive wave of layoffs in its small and medium markets yesterday, Clear Channel Radio announced a series of appointments in its new National Programming Platforms division this morning. The new division will deliver content to the company's on-air, digital and live event platforms.

TV Wires

Eddie Murphy Planning 'Beverly Hills Cop' TV Series.

Sports Wires

No longer in football, Kyle Turley is still bringing it hard

John Maffei: Brawl puts Bruins in TV spotlight for the wrong reasons.

Chargers on 'MNF'. The Chargers will visit Kansas City for a Monday night game against the Chiefs on ESPN. Kickoff is at 5:30 p.m. Channel 8 will also carry the game in San Diego for those viewers who don't get ESPN.

With the Chargers playing on Monday night, Sunday's NFL lineup on TV in Southern California is thin. The early game of the CBS doubleheader is Miami (0-6) at the New York Giants (4-2). No reason to hurry home from church for that one. The 1 p.m. games are Detroit (5-2) at Denver (2-4) on Fox and New England (5-1) at Pittsburgh (5-2). The Sunday night game on NBC is Dallas (3-3) at Philadelphia (2-4).

USA Today: Sports on TV

Tech Wires

A decade's worth of Windows mistakes that changed Microsoft (for better and worse)

Weird Wires

Mom on anti-bacteria crusade banned from 8 McDonald's sites

High Standard Misc Wires

5 Surprisingly Healthy Fruits and Veggies You Aren't Eating

Cashing In on Your Hit YouTube Video

Weekend Sports on TV (Oct 28-30, 2011)

Boxing: Welterweights, Javier Molina vs. Artemis Reyes; heavyweights, Eddie Chambers vs. Tony Thompson; middleweights, Brandon Gonzalez vs. Ossie Duran, in Atlantic City, N.J., Showtime, 8

College football:Brigham Young vs. TCU, in Arlington, Texas, ESPN, 5

Canadian Football League: Toronto at Winnipeg, delayed tape, NFL Network, 12 a.m.

Golf: PGA European Tour, Andalucia Masters, second round, in Sotogrande, Spain, Golf Channel, 6 a.m.; Nationwide Tour Championship, second round, in Charleston, S.C., Golf Channel, 11:30am; PGA Tour, Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia, third round, in Selangor, Malaysia, Golf Channel, 10pm

NHL: San Jose at Detroit, NHL Network, 4:30

Saturday, Oct. 29

College football: Nebraska at Michigan State, ESPN, 9am; Purdue at Michigan, ESPN2, 9am; Missouri at Texas A&M, FX, 9am N.C. State at Florida State, ESPNU, 9am; Regional coverage, Washington State at Oregon, Fox Sports Net, 12 or Southern Methodist at Tulsa, Fox Sports Net, 12:30; Regional coverage, West Virginia at Rutgers, Baylor at Oklahoma State or Illinois at Penn State, ABC or ESPN2, 12:30; Florida vs. Georgia, in Jacksonville, Fla., CBS, 12:30; Oklahoma at Kansas State, ESPN, 12:30; Navy at Notre Dame, NBC, 12:30; Wake Forest at North Carolina, ESPNU, 12:30; Iowa State at Texas Tech, Fox Sports Net, 4; Mississippi at Auburn, ESPNU, 4; South Carolina at Tennessee, ESPN2, 4:15 p.m. or 5 p.m.; Wisconsin at Ohio State, ESPN, 5; Regional coverage, Stanford at Southern California or Clemson at Georgia Tech, ABC, 5; Arizona at Washington, Fox Sports Net, 7:30

Golf: PGA European Tour, Andalucia Masters, third round, Golf Channel, 5; Nationwide Tour Championship, third round, Golf Channel, 11:30am; PGA Tour, Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia, final round, Golf Channel, 10pm

NHL: Ottawa at New York Rangers, NHL Network, 12; Boston at Montreal, NHL Network, 4

Soccer: Premier League, Arsenal at Chelsea, ESPN2, 4:30 a.m.

Sunday, Oct. 30

Golf: PGA European Tour, Andalucia Masters, final round, Golf Channel, 5 a.m.; Nationwide Tour Championship, final round, Golf Channel, 11:30am

NFL: Regional coverage, CBS and Fox, 10am; Regional coverage, Fox, 1pm; Regional coverage, doubleheader game, CBS, 1:15 p.m.; Dallas at Philadelphia, NBC, 5

Soccer: MLS playoffs, Houston at Philadelphia, ESPN2, 1

Tennis: WTA Championships, championship match, in Istanbul, same-day tape, ESPN2, 10am

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Wiremania (Oct 27, 2011)

Radio Wires

Los Angeles Times: Legendary DJ Jim Ladd is out at KLOS

TV Wires

Eddie Murphy Says He's Gotten Over His Grudge Against `Saturday Night Live'

Biz Wires

Avoid the most common car repairs

Videos (October 26, 2011)

Mayer Hawthorne - The Walk (has a Motown feel to it)

Sounds a lot like Motown mixed in with Friends of Distinction's song "Grazing in the Grass"

From 1986, The Pretenders, "Don't Get Me Wrong"

Wiremania (October 26, 2011)

Radio Wires

New York Post: Arbitron reports that the weekly online radio audience has doubled every five years since 2001, to 57 million in 2011. While 81 percent of listeners still dial into AM/FM radio, 11 percent now only listen online - Jim Cady, CEO at Slacker, says: "What's happening is, you're seeing a change. Consumers require more control, and the challenge is that traditional radio doesn't provide it. Look at TV and time-shifting -- all those things are now reinventing radio. You can ask it to play what you want"

Sports Wires

Universal Sports Launches Ad Campaign To Support Move To Fee-Based Carriage. Personally, I never watch the channel, and I don't care if they disappear from the free multicast channel.

New York Times: NBC Sports Leaving Big Apple for Abandoned Factory in Connecticut. The new facilities, located 35 miles away from Manhattan, will house NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, NBC Sports Digital, Versus and the Comcast Sports Management Group, which oversees 14 regional networks. Why This Matters: The Constitution State may have a new nickname as Sports Central: ESPN, Versus and WWE are already located there.

Biz Wires

Consumer Reports Names Most Reliable Cars of 2011

How Netflix Lost 800,000 Members, and Good Will.

High Standard Misc Wires

Northern Lights Seen Across Southeast U.S.

Go On Board With a Homemade Rocket That Blasts Past 100,000 Feet

Mutterings (Oct 25, 2011)

Wiremania (Oct 25, 2011)

Radio Wires

SDRadio.net: Teasers for Tuesday: Clear Channel Communications: A difficult week for staff members as Wednesday could be further cuts nationwide. Where are those broadcast rights for the San Diego Padres? More about them in the morning.

Sports Wires

The New Orleans Saints scored a lot of points, set a lot of records.

Tech Wires

How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23 years ago.

Biz Wires

15 Insurance Policies You Don't Need

Netflix stock plunges on brutal 3Q, somber outlook.

5 Things to Know Before You Switch to an Online Bank.

High Standard Misc Wires

11 Table Manners That Still Matter.

Top 5 bizarre public art displays

Mutterings (Oct 24, 2011)

The bandwidth of the Internet is running out? Is it already happening? Fox News reported it in 2009. What happens when the capacity runs out in cyberspace? Am already having trouble logging into Cox Internet. Takes 10 minutes to get into the net. AT&T reports in 2008 that the capacity of the Internet would reach the limit. So what can be done to save the Internet? Build a second one?

Eight is Enough on DVD Status Update (Aug 30, 2011)

"WB is finally giving thought to releasing "Eight is Enough" on DVD. From what I understand the original film source material needs a lot of work and cleaning-up, but the studio is putting this task on the back burner due to the public's lack of interest in the series and the possibility of poor sales.

"You can help by logging into http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/ and voting for "Eight is Enough" to bring the show up in the ranks to "most wanted shows on DVD."

"While most other shows have made their way DVD, it's a shame that EIE should remain in the vaults collecting dust. It will just take a minute to create an account and you can vote for other shows as well."