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Wiremania (Jan 7, 2012)

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Richard Wagoner: Radio: A Silver lining at improving KABC-AM

Los Angeles Times: KFI's John and Ken thrive on an angry public and wield power by stirring their loyal listeners - 1 million weekly - to action. But their stances and beliefs are more varied than many might suspect.

SiriusXM Considering Personalized Streaming Radio?

KFI's John And Ken Profiled On Front Page Of L.A. Times

KSCF Is Searching For An APD/MD

Wiremania (Jan 6, 2012)

Radio Wires

Bob and Tom are out at KSHE in St Louis -- Local personality John Ulett will begin hosting an all-Rock morning show from 6-10 a.m. each weekday, starting Tuesday, January 17. He will be joined by KSHE personality Lauren Colvin (aka Lern), who will provide news and traffic reports

On this day in 1973 "YouÆre So Vain" by Carly Simon was the #1 song.

Spending 4 Billion Dollars To Accomplish Nothing. The world of making physical CDs or vinyl albums and shipping them on pallets to Walmart, is coming to an end. The world of needing third parties to track how many times a song is played on analog AM/FM radio and analog television is just about over. The world of having gatekeepers deciding who gets let in, is gone. ItÆs over. It changed, itÆs a new game. The traditional music industry is on its last breath. Soon it will be completely and utterly dead. ItÆs not a matter of ôif,ö itÆs a matter of ôwhen." Read more at the link.

TV Wires

Obsolete Television Law Needs Modernization. By Scott Cleland Important free market communications legislation introduced in mid-December warrants flagging because it brings needed attention to a real and growing problem, how obsolete communications law stifles innovation, growth and consumer benefit. The DeMint-Scalise bill, "The Next Generation Television Marketplace Act," introduced by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), would repeal antiquated restrictions of the 1992 Cable Act that have been made obsolete by dramatic changes in the market, competition and technology over the last twenty years.

Sports Media Wires

How Well did the Rose Bowl Do in Ratings Even Without ABC?

Tech Wires

Jacobs Media: For Apple, Amazon, and Google, it was a pretty damn good holiday season for smartphones and tablets.

The Leap Second is Coming! The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) in Paris ù the grand arbiters of time on our big blue marble ù has declared that a leap second will be introduced on 30 June, 2012.

Worm Steals 45,000 Facebook Login Credentials, Infects VictimsÆ Friends

Use Your Eyes Instead of a Mouse

Logitech announces the Cube, an unconventional take on the mouse.

Biz Wires

Small Business: Doctors going broke.

Who Wouldn't Want a Star Wars-Themed Burger? On February 10, "Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace" will come back to theaters, this time in 3D. That means we can expect to see Star Wars tie-ins squeezed out worldwide.

GM recalling 8,000 Chevy Volts to prevent battery fires

Oil Price Would Skyrocket if Iran Closed the Strait of Hormuz

Pandora hits one million milestone. November streaming listening data released by Triton Digital today shows Pandora has crossed the one million Average Active Sessions mark for the first time (1,045,551). Second place Clear Channel continues to grow on the strength of its re-launched iHeartRadio (168,173). CBS Radio, which recently lost AOL RadioÆs 200+ channels to Slacker, fell from 126,538 to 97,107 but still ranks third. Cumulus and Slacker, both trending up, round out the top five.

Misc Wires

10 Foods That Prevent Cancer

Sports on TV (Jan 6-8, 2012)

All times Eastern. Programs live unless noted. Check local listings.

Friday, Jan. 6

Boxing: Super middleweights, Dyah Davis vs. Alfonso Lopez, in Key West, Fla., ESPN2, 9; Lightweights, Luis Ramos Jr. vs. Raymundo Beltran, in Indio, Calif., Showtime, 11

College football:Cotton Bowl, Kansas State vs. Arkansas, in Arlington, Texas, Fox, 8

Golf: PGA European Tour, Africa Open, second round, in East London, South Africa, same-day tape, Golf Channel, 9 a.m.; PGA Tour, Tournament of Champions, first round, in Kapalua, Hawaii, Golf Channel, 5:30

College men's basketball: Butler at Wright State, ESPNU, 7; Niagara at Iona, ESPNU, 9

College men's hockey: Dartmouth at RPI, NBCSN, 7:30

Motorsports: Dakar Rally, Fiambala, Argentina to Copiapo, Chile, delayed tape, NBCSN, 1:30 a.m.

NBA: Chicago at Orlando, ESPN, 8; Portland at Phoenix, ESPN, 10:30

NHL: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, NHL Network, 7

Saturday, Jan. 7

College football: BBVA Compass Bowl, Southern Methodist vs. Pittsburgh, in Birmingham, Ala., ESPN, 1; FCS championship game, Sam Houston State vs. North Dakota State, in Frisco, Texas, ESPN2, 1

Golf: European PGA Tour, Africa Open, third round, same-day tape, Golf Channel, 9 a.m.; PGA Tour, Tournament of Champions, second round, Golf Channel, 5:30

College men's basketball: Florida at Tennessee, ESPN2, 11 a.m.; Duke at Georgia Tech, ESPNU, noon; Washington at Utah, Fox Sports Net, 2; Kansas at Oklahoma, ESPNU, 2; Florida State at Clemson, ESPN2, 4; Washington State at Colorado, Fox Sports Net, 4; Notre Dame at Louisville, ESPNU, 4; Miami (Fla.) at Virginia, ESPNU, 6; Murray State at Austin Peay, ESPNU, 8

College women's basketball: Michigan State at Penn State, CBS, 2; Connecticut at Notre Dame, CBS, 4; UCLA at Arizona State, Fox Sports Net, 6;

Mixed Martial Arts: Strikeforce, in Las Vegas, Showtime, 10

Motorsports: Dakar Rally, in Copiapo, Chile, delayed tape, NBCSN, 1:30 a.m

NBA: Charlotte at Indiana, NBATV, 7; Los Angeles Lakers at Los Angeles Clipperss, NBATV, 10:30

NFL playoffs: Cincinnati at Houston, NBC, 4:30; Detroit at New Orleans, NBC, 8

NHL: Vancouver at Boston, NHL Network, 1; Detroit at Toronto, NHL Network, 7

Prep basketball: Simeon (Ill.) vs. Miller Grove (Ga.), in Wheeling, W.Va., ESPN2, 8; Gonzaga (D.C.) vs. Whitney Young, in Wheeling, W.Va., ESPNU, 10

Prep football: All-Star game, All-American Bowl, in San Antonio, NBC, 1

Sunday, Jan. 8

Bull riding:PBR, Madison Square Garden Invitational, in New York, same-day tape, NBC, 2:30

College football: GoDaddy.com Bowl, Arkansas State vs. Northern Illinois, in Mobile, Ala., ESPN, 9

Golf: PGA European Tour, Africa Open, final round, Golf Channel, 9 a.m.; PGA Tour, Tournament of Champions, third round, Golf Channel, 5:30

College men's basketball: Wisconsin at Michigan, CBS, 1:30; Arizona at Southern California, Fox Sports Net, 5:30; Maryland at N.C. State, ESPNU, 6; California at Oregon, Fox Sports Net, 7:30

College women's basketball: Memphis at Texas-El Paso, Fox Sports Net, 1; Louisville at St. John's, ESPNU, 1:30; Oklahoma at Texas A&M, Fox Sports Net, 3; Tennessee at Arkansas, ESPNU, 3:30

NBA: San Antonio at Oklahoma City, NBATV, 7

NFL playoffs: Atlanta at N.Y. Giants, Fox, 1; Pittsburgh at Denver, CBS, 4:30

NHL: Detroit at Chicago, NBCSN, 7:30

Mutterings (Jan 5, 2012)

Question: Are the talk show hosts getting paid money to do something that sounds like a sales pitch during the times they're supposed to be doing regular talk topics? I heard two of them doing sales pitches outside of the commercial stopsets making pitches to listeners that they should be buying gold, protecting your identity, and making money at home. The talk show hosts should either immediately disclose whether these pitches are being paid for by the talk show's sponsors of use pre-recorded 60-second commercials during the times commercials normally run. What is this talk show genre turning into? It's become part infomercial and part talk show. Make a choice. Either disclose that these sales pitch discussions are sponsored or move them outside of the time you should be normally talking about topics. I know talk show hosts are biased by design, but if a guest has paid to have his books and websites plugged while being discussed, they should be disclosed to the public as such as well. Might as well list the talk shows as brokered programming to make them more accurate. This could be a new kind of payola as far as I'm concerned. Stop the advertising masquerading as regular talk topics.

On a related topic, credit card companies, banks and credit unions, the IRS, and anything else that uses a social security number, sbould be the ones that should be responsible for protecting your bank accounts from being taken over, cost nothing, and should not require an outside ID protection company to do the kind of job the banks should be doing in the first place. If they can't do it, outsource it for helping out, but either way, the user should not be charged extra for the service. It's your business? It's your responsibility to take care of the personal data.

Wiremania (Jan 5, 2012)

Radio Wires

The OC Register: Tom Leykis talks about his new talk show. When Tom Leykis signs on with his new live Internet-streamed talk show at 3 p.m. Monday, April 2, will we hear the song he signed off with back on Friday, Feb. 20, 2009 - Joe Jackson's "I'm The Man," a song with lyrics he said "are all about me"? We don't know the answer to that yet, but it's safe to say that Leykis, at 55, will be as provocative as ever in the "Hot Talk" format that made him a success locally on KLSX/97.1 FM and nationally on CBS Radio. Tom Leykis is free to return to terrestrial radio on April 2 - but he won't. Leykis ("LYE-kiss") tells the Orange County Register that when his contract with CBS Radio is up April 1, he'll debut his own Internet-streamed talk show. The former KLSX, Los Angeles talker says his target audience is men 18-44, and says "I am having a hard time getting excited about joining in on the non-stop 'Obamacare' or all-politics talk formats that currently exist" in Southern California radio. Read more at the link. Links for his website and facebook are on that page.

Radio Ink: Morning Show Generates $30K Per Month in Digital. (by Carl Magnuson) The big Ace and TJ news is their return to Charlotte's air waves today on CC's WHQC - That's not the story I want to dig into however. I want to find out how team Ace and TJ were able to put up $30K in local direct digital revenue in November without the help of a broadcast stick.

SiriusXM Adds 1.7 Million Subscribers in 2011. Sirius XM says it ended 2011 with nearly 21.9 million subscribers, reporting approximately 540,000 net new subscribers in the fourth quarter and approximately 1,700,000 for the full year 2011. The company reiterated its existing financial guidance for 2011 and 2012 and expects to announce 2012 subscriber guidance and complete 2011 results in February.

Are Boom Days Over For Spanish-Language Radio? Census 2010 data shows what most demographers and marketers expected -- the U.S. Hispanic population continues to rise. But is Hispanic media in for a long-term struggle? Are the boom days over for Spanish-language radio? That will be the topic for a panel discussion, hosted by Adam Jacobson (pictured) at the 2012 Radio Ink Hispanic Radio conference.

In case anyone reading this still cares, Modern Rock KBZT (FM 94/9)/San Diego adjusts its dayparts, as The Mikey Show is now heard 5:30-9am, with Hilary on-air 9a-3p. The midday hostess now adds a new 9am feature, "The 94 at 9," with 94 minutes of commercial-free music. It could have been worse. Mikey could have ended up with the weekday 5am-5:30am time slot to burn off his contract in.

HD RADIO - HD Radio Is Too Complicated Part 2

Gene Knight and 'Love Songs' Gone From KYXY. The 30-year nightime 7-MID show has been replaced with the station's regular Soft Rock format. Part-timers will cover the shift for the time being.

KABC Adds 'Real Estate Today,' Kim Komando For Weekends

TV Wires

Hallmark Gives Martha Stewart a Pink Slip

Primetime Ratings: 'Work It' Has Soft Debut as CBS Takes Tuesday

FCC seeks to change regulation of corporate interests disclosures on TV news. TV newscasts are increasingly seeded with corporate advertising masquerading as news - and the federal government wants to do something about it.

FCC Issues Loudness Rules

HDTV Prices Drop To Record Lows: Analyst. Average Price of All 32-Inch TVs Expected to Be Below $500 in Q4: NPD DisplaySearch. Bad for the companies. Good for the consumers. Heavy competetion is what's driving the prices down to affordable levels.

Sports Media Wires

NHL Sees Rangers-Flyers Deliver Lowest Rating In Winter Classic History

AP to announce NFL awards, including MVP, on Super Bowl eve on NBC

Business Wires

Kodak eyes Chapter 11: Patent sale or bust.

Low Standard Misc Wires

A newspaper typo surrounding Baron Davis' herniated disc causes all sorts of laughter. The original spelling was "disc". The corrected spelling should have read "disk". Problem? They cut out the "s" and added the "k" at the end. Whoops!

High Standard Misc Wires

National Geographic's Top Photos of the Week

Wiremania (Jan 4, 2012)

Radio Wires

AFRTS Archive: The Armed/American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) is celebrating 70 years of service to American service people around the world. Wolfman Jack, Gene Price, John Doremus, Jim Ameche, Pat Sajak, Charlie Tuna, Jim Gough and Al Lohman are just a few who served as radio/TV hosts for G.I.'s during those 70 years. Thom Whetston hosts a blog at http://afrtsarchive.blogspot.com that features a 25 minute audio salute to AFRTS which is also available for rebroadcast at no charge by commercial radio stations. The blog also features a wealth of old broadcasts as presented to our fighting men down through the years as well as personal histories of those who served since 1942 from Anzio to Vietnam

Audio Graphics: In markets sized 1-75, 2012 will be the year people realize radio has lost its local luster - The radio industry has long held its "local" flag high. Yet, with so many other local media flags also waving for attention, and the radio industry's declining coverage of local events and news, the luster of local is lost for radio.

Sports Media Wires

NBC Sports Network Faces Off. Service Rebrands From Versus On Jan. 2. The NBC Sports Network was rebranded from the national cable service that had been known as Versus at 4 p.m. on Jan. 2 (ET), with a special edition of NBC SportsTalk leading into a NHL Winter Classic post-game show at the conclusion of the contest.

MSG, MSG Plus Now Dark on Time Warner Cable Systems. RSNs, MSO Can't Bridge License Fee Differences as Contract Expires

ESPN's Fowler Foresees Plus-One College Football Playoff System. Veteran Sportscaster Also Weighs in on Bowls, SEC, Ratings

Time Warner Cable: MSG Offered No 'Credible Explanation' For License Fee Hike. MSO Offers Subscribers January Freeview of Sports Package, As Two RSNs Are In Dark

NBC Sold Out of Advertising Spots for Super Bowl

TV Wires

Radio-info.com: Public broadcasting's "Big Bird" is "going to have to have advertisements", says Mitt Romney. If that's Romney's position on public TV, it's almost certainly his thinking about public radio, too. Romney says his opposition to federal funding for public broadcasting comes from concerns about budgets, not ideology. On the stump in Iowa, he says "You might say, `I like the National Endowment for the Arts.' I do. I like PBS. We subsidize PBS. Look, I'm going to stop that. I'm going to say, `PBS is going to have to have advertisements.'" ABC News quotes Romney saying "My test is - is a program so critical that it's worth borrowing money from China to pay for it?" Conservatives have been trying to de-fund National Public Radio for years, back to the time when Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House in the 1990s. NPR gets very little money directly from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds both public radio and TV stations. NPR derives much more of its revenue from member stations, who buy programming like "All Things Considered" from it.

Biz Wires

10 Things You Should Stop Paying for in 2012

Woman takes unique road to sue Honda over mileage

What Your Starbucks Habit Really Costs You

Misc Wires

Drought Led to Demise of Ancient City of Angkor

McGraw-Hill Companies Complete Sale of KGTV, Others (Jan 3, 2012)

The McGraw-Hill Companies on Monday has completed the sale of its television station group to The E.W. Scripps Company.

The purchase price of the nine-station Broadcasting Group was $212 million in cash.

The Broadcasting Group includes ABC affiliates in Denver, Colorado (KMGH-TV), San Diego, California (KGTV), Bakersfield, California (KERO-TV), Indianapolis, Indiana (WRTV) and Azteca America affiliates in Denver, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, San Diego and Bakersfield.

About The McGraw-Hill Companies:McGraw-Hill announced on September 12, 2011, its intention to separate into two public companies: McGraw-Hill Financial, a leading provider of content and analytics to global financial markets, and McGraw-Hill Education, a leading education company focused on digital learning and education services worldwide.

McGraw-Hill Financial's leading brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Indices, Platts energy information services and J.D. Power and Associates. With sales of $6.2 billion in 2010, the Corporation has approximately 21,000 employees across more than 280 offices in 40 countries.

Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/

Wiremania (Jan 3, 2012)

Radio Wires

Los Angeles Times: As political races progress, talk-radio hosts go from loud to louder - The political season is providing commentators on talk radio plenty of fodder. 'It's been a circus,' KABC-AM program director Jack Silver says. Whether they're talking to like-minded listeners or opponents sampling the other side, "hopefully the best talk-show hosts give you a different way of looking at the world," said Robin Bertolucci, program director at KFI-AM (640), the talk-radio powerhouse

Sports Media Wires

Variety: Sunday Night Football (1/1) delivered the biggest ratings in its six year history that night.

Biz Wires

How to Clean Out Your Tax, Financial Files

What Will Cost Less in 2012

Misc Wires

A House That Rotates on an Axle

Mutterings (Jan 2, 2012)

Chris Carmichael reports on Facebook that Gene Knight's contract at KYXY was not renewed.

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