Category Archives: Radio Biz

South Korean Military Readiness

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Art Stone

Tuesday night, John Batchelor had on Bruce Bechtol, the author of Red Rouge, a book about North Korea on Amazon Mr Bechtol is retired military, spending part of his career in the DIA as an intelligence analyst. What was alarming … Continue reading →

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Jay Sekulow now on evenings

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Art Stone

Salem Broadcasting has been adding Jay Sekulow’s show to the evenings. If you’re not aware of who he is, he heads the American Center for Law and Justice. The ACLJ’s focus is mainly opposing the ACLU in court, usually on … Continue reading →

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Management change at Clear Channel

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Art Stone

Wall Street Journal reports that Mark Mays is being told he won’t be CEO by the end of the year by Clear Channel’s private equity firm managment. Mark Mays is the son of co-founder Lowry Mays. His brother was already … Continue reading →

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The New Crossfire

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Art Stone

Ariana Huffington (of Huffington Post) and Mary Matalin are starting a new syndicated radio show. Mary jokes that she remembers when Ariana was a Conservative and Mary was a moderate. I remember when Mary ran George H.W. Bush’s campaign in … Continue reading →

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Canada kills digital radio

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Art Stone

NorthEast Radio Watch is where I read it first. In 1999, Canada decided to embark on Digital radio using the Euopean model called Eureka DAB. In the United States, we went down a path called “IBOC”, which uses “clever” techniques … Continue reading →

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Arbitron has a new PPM device – the port…

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Art Stone

Arbitron has a new version of the PPM device – the portable device that listeners carry with them that “hears” and logs what radio stations you heard (inaudible watermarks are encoded in the audio that tells the PPM device what … Continue reading →

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Beck lands on LA finally – on Salem’s K…

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Art Stone

Beck lands on LA finally – on Salem’s KRLA-AM. It will be carried live, which is 6-9 AM Pacific time – “morning drive”. Salem mostly carries only its own syndicated hosts, plus Savage. Salem has probably resisted Beck since some … Continue reading →

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Bill Cunningham is staying put at WLW-AM…

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Art Stone

Bill Cunningham is staying put at WLW-AM…. he still is doing the television pilot with Tribune company, but he is expected to sign a new contract with Clear Channel in the next day or two. Perhaps with Mike McConnell off … Continue reading →

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New Howie Carr streaming station in Mass…

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Art Stone

New Howie Carr streaming station in Massachusetts – and it’s a curious one. WHYN-AM in Springfield has started streaming. What is peculiar is this station is owned by Clear Channel. (Howie may have been on it for a long time, … Continue reading →

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Glenn Beck nails the Huffington Post fan…

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Art Stone

Glenn Beck nails the Huffington Post fanpeople http://www.kenpittman.com/articles/134/1/How-Democrats-will-destroy-the-true-America/Page1.html It’s Rudyard Kipling’s poem

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What is Radio? The source of all knowled…

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Art Stone

What is Radio? The source of all knowledge in the Universe (Google***) says “radio” is… Pandora, Live365, AOL Music, NPR, Slacker, Sirius, Yahoo! Music, Windows Media, XM Radio…. That pretty much puts a bow on that package. *** (“all knowledge” … Continue reading →

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Bob Brinker is gone from Saturday as of …

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Art Stone

Bob Brinker is gone from Saturday as of this past weekend (I was off visiting relatives and didn’t care about radio :))… It looks like the Larry Kudlow show IS the syndicated replacement for the Saturday show (on the few … Continue reading →

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Wow! Exodus at WLW… Bill (“I’ll call…

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Art Stone

Wow! Exodus at WLW… Bill (“I’ll call him Hussein if I want to”) Cunningham and Mike (“Your Shill for Reality”} McConnell are both leaving WLW to join WGN-AM in Chicago, the station I playfully refer to as the #1 radio … Continue reading →

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Arizona radio station(s) destroyed by fi…

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Art Stone

Arizona radio station(s) destroyed by fire – the Bullhead City studio facilities of Cameron Broadcasting – KFLG-FM (Country) and KLUK-FM. The company also owns KAAA-AM and KZZZZ-AM, which carry Rush Limbaugh. According to media reports (1) (2), the fire was … Continue reading →

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Busted…

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Art Stone

Busted Sec. 73.1206 Broadcast of telephone conversations. Before recording a telephone conversation for broadcast, or broadcasting such a conversation simultaneously with its occurrence, a licensee shall inform any party to the call of the licensee’s intention to broadcast the conversation, … Continue reading →

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