Author Archives: jmyrlefuller

This past week Dish Network announced it would be dropping The Weather Channel and creating a new weather channel called “The Weather Cast.” The primary reason they cited was rights fees– which were going up about 9%. The other reason … Continue reading →

As the old song goes, “five feet high and rising“– the Cumberland River is flooding portions of the city of Nashville, including the current home of the Grand Ole Opry… the old Ryman Auditorium isn’t affected by the floods, so … Continue reading →

The new Republican strategy on health care: “repeal and replace.” Under the premise that they probably won’t be able to repeal the entire bill outright (at least until 2013 anyway), Mitch McConnell (the senate Republican leader) is proposing keeping some … Continue reading →

The rant that’s making waves today… Eric Massa has had a weekly radio show on Sunday mornings since early 2008, before he won election to Congress (never mind the violation of equal time rules), on WHHO– the same station that … Continue reading →

It’s happened: Rush Limbaugh has jumped from WRKO to WKOX in Boston today, nearly a month ahead of schedule… EDIT: OK, maybe not yet, but it is gone from WRKO.

96% of black voters voted for Obama in 2008, if I recall correctly. Something to keep in mind when liberals ask why no black people are involved in the Tea Party movement, as if *we’re* the racists…

Another radio station bites the dust– right in my backyard… Hornell, NY based WHHO 1320, a Fox Sports Radio affiliate owned by a local radio owner, had its license renewal blocked by the FCC last week. According to the FCC, … Continue reading →

A prestream ad– on public radio? No joke. I was tuning into a local public radio station online and before I got the stream I hear a bona fide advertisement, not an “underwriting support” message, hawking a local car dealership. … Continue reading →

Boston Herald doesn’t think Howard Stern will quit Sirius-XM after all and that the talk a couple months ago was just a negotiating ploy… the article notes that terrestrial radio probably can’t take him because they’re all in debt (though … Continue reading →

What’s the point of a debt ceiling if they keep on raising it any time they want? Politico story

Streaming heads-up: the annual Rush Limbaugh Show Real Story of Thanksgiving airs today. It’s no Macy’s parade, but it’s a Thanksgiving tradition nonetheless.

NY23 not over yet? Apparently in the rush to get Bill Owens into the congressional seat, they never bothered to check the vote tallies… which were apparently off– way off. Syracuse Post-Standard reports that in recounting the ballots, several precincts … Continue reading →

Noticing a trend in John Batchelor… seems like the Saturday show is moving more toward John interviewing authors of history books, which tends to get boring sometimes. The Sunday show is pretty much the same as it always has been.